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episode 317: The ALICE Detector
Guest: Despina Hatzifotiadou Host: Markus Voelter
Shownoter: Kolja Dummann
In May I visited ALICE, one of the four large experiments at the LHC and talked with Despina Hatzifotiadou. We briefly discussed the science that ALICE is interested in, and then spent the majority of the time dissecting the detector to understand its components and how they detect the various products of particle collisions.
Introduction 00:02:54
Super Proton–Antiproton Synchrotron
ALICE Physics 00:06:09ALICE Physics (omega tau 030 – The Large Hadron Collider | omega tau 102 – Discovering the Higgs) | Higgs boson | Proton | Lead | Pion | Muon | quark gluon plasma (omega tau 096 – Controlling the LHC Beam) | ATLAS | Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) | Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) | perfect liquid | Charm quark | Supersymmetry
The Detector 00:33:24ALICE | The Alice Detector | ALICE virtual tour | Cherenkov radiation | Bremsstrahlung (omega tau 312 – The Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Experiment)
The Upgrade 01:27:52Quark