I am a home-educating father of six living in Iowa, but I grew up in the Chicagoland area. As a young adult I was introduced to Fermilab through the late Dr. Sam Segler.
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.