As the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) prepares to fire up again at the end of the month following two year's of maintenance, its operators have released a video shot by a drone as it flies over Alice, one of the LHC's four detectors.
Alice (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a heavy-ion detector located 56 metres below ground, southwest of the 27-kilometre Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ring. Or, as the team at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) refer to it as, “like an underground telescope aimed at the first instant of the Big Bang”. As reported by Cnet, Alice is…
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