Explain it in a dentist’s chair
I was having a routine dental cleaning the other day, and of course it’s an occupational hazard that people want you to explain what you do in words of one syllable or fewer.
In 2023, the ALICE experiment was ready for their best year yet, until a mysterious signal threatened everything. As the LHC wraps up its 2025 lead-ion run, physicists recall how they worked together to solve the puzzle.