1995

ALICE: New kid on the block.

ALICE was the third collaboration to submit a technical proposal for an experiment at the LHC, doing so on 15 December 1995 with the design for a dedicated heavy-ion detector.

The idea of building a dedicated heavy-ion detector for the LHC was first aired at the historic Evian meeting in March 1992. From the ideas presented there, the ALICE collaboration was formed, and in 1993, a Letter of Intent was submitted. High-energy heavy-ion collisions provide a unique laboratory for the study of strongly interacting particles.