LHC-ALICE, "A Large Ion Collider Experiment," is an experiment at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN. We generate the material phase "Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP)," which is presumed to exist in the early universe immediately after the Big Bang, by accelerating and colliding heavy to explore the phase. And ALICE is the only experiment team specializing in the high energy heavy ion collision in LHC.
ALICE is a large international collaborative experiment consisting of 1600 researchers from 41 countries and 159 research institutes (as of March 2016). LHC began to run in 2009, and ALICE collected the first physics data, proton and anti-proton collision (900 GeV, GeV = 109 eV). In 2010 and 2011, ALICE successfully collected data on lead-lead collisions (central collision energy per nucleon is 2.76 TeV, TeV = 1012 eV). Subsequently, ALICE publishes research results on high-temperature matters generated by LHC energy one after another. We are working to further elucidate the nature of QGP and to further clarify the nature of the matter in the early universe and extremely high-temperature state by further data collection and analysis. (Quoted from the homepage of ALICE-J)
