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The story of ALICE: Building the dedicated heavy ion detector at LHC

C. Fabjan, J. Schukraft

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This article documents the main design choices and the close to 20 years of preparation, detector R&D, construction and installation of ALICE, the dedicated heavy ion experiment at the CERN LHC accelerator.

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This article documents the main design choices and the close to 20 years of preparation, detector R&D, construction and installation of ALICE, the dedicated heavy ion experiment at the CERN LHC accelerator.

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This article documents the main design choices and the close to 20 years of preparation, detector R&D, construction and installation of ALICE, the dedicated heavy ion experiment at the CERN LHC accelerator.

Key concepts: Alice (programming language), Large Hadron Collider, Heavy ion, Detector, Nuclear physics, Physics, Computer science, Particle physics

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