ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is one of the six
detector experiments being constructed at the
Large Hadron Collider at
CERN. It is optimized to study heavy ion collisions.
Pb-Pb nuclei collisions will be studied at a centre of mass energy of 5.5 TeV per nucleon. The resulting temperature and density are expected to be large enough to generate a
quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter wherein quarks and gluons are deconfined.
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