ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment)

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a scientific project at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, designed to study the universe's earliest moments by colliding heavy ions, like lead nuclei, at extremely high energies. These collisions recreate conditions similar to those just after the Big Bang, allowing scientists to investigate the properties of quark-gluon plasma—a state of matter where quarks and gluons are free rather than confined within protons and neutrons. ALICE's findings help us understand how matter evolved and the fundamental forces that shape the universe.