Welcome into the web space of the Catania ALICE group.
ALICE (A Large Ion Collision Experiment) is one of the experiment which will soon start data taking at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It will study ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions with the aim of investigating the hot and high energy density nuclear matter produced there, which is expected to undergo the phase transition to Quark-Gluon Plasma.
In order to be able to analyze all kinds of signatures which are expected to be produced by this phase transition, ALICE has been designed as a multi-detector which must allow a complete reconstruction of the event products in the most interesting region, that is at mid-rapidity (-0.9 < eta < 0.9), with several devices in order to have a good particle identification efficiency in a wide range of momenta.
The Catania group contributes to this experiment with several activities, which are listed in the links on the left side of the page. Click the links to see more informations about each of the specific tasks Catania is involved in.