ALICE is one of the four big experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), dedicated to the investigation of nucleus-nucleus collisions. The aim of the ALICE Collaboration is to study the physics of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities, where the formation of a new phase of matter, the quark-gluon plasma, is expected.

The ALICE department at GSI made significant contributions to the design and construction of two key detectors subsystems of ALICE, the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) and the Transition Radiation Detector (TRD). Today, the department is strongly involved in the operation and calibration of the TPC , as well as in the physics analysis of the ALICE data. Together with GSI-IT, the department is responsible for the operation of the ALICE tier-2 computing center at GSI, which provides an analysis platform to all ALICE members in Germany.

 Link to the ALICE at GSI department page