ALICE Upgrade
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Liverpool
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
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Planned Impact
The main beneficiaries of this upgrade will be experimentalists and theorists working in the field of hot Quantum Chromodynamics. They will directly benefit from the new insights that will arise out of the research, made possible by this Upgrade. The results of the subsequent research will be disseminated in high impact journals, through conference talks and seminars so as to reach as wide an audience as possible. More broadly, both the technologies developed during the Upgrade and the resulting research will also be of relevance to researchers in other fields, including other areas of nuclear physics, particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Some of the hardware developments related to the Birmingham design of the original ALICE trigger subsystem have already had impact, having been adopted by another experiment at CERN. Future developments that are foreseen in this proposal will potentially have relevance to a new generation of experiments planning to run in continuous data taking mode. The ITS Upgrade project will develop MAPS technologies, an area where the UK is already considered to be a world leader. Such technologies will not only have applications for other particle detectors but are likely to have applications in the areas of medicine and security.
Another strand revolves around the public understanding of science. The research that is related to this proposal has the potential to capture the imagination and to inspire a new generation of scientists. The research programme which will arise from this Upgrade is involved in studying matter as it would have existed a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. This aspect is relevant to the evolution of the Early Universe and the possible existence of (strange) quark matter stars. Members of the ALICE-UK collaboration have given over 70 public lectures over the past five years and been involved in many other public outreach events to school children, teachers, and members of the general public.
Another strand revolves around the public understanding of science. The research that is related to this proposal has the potential to capture the imagination and to inspire a new generation of scientists. The research programme which will arise from this Upgrade is involved in studying matter as it would have existed a fraction of a second after the Big Bang. This aspect is relevant to the evolution of the Early Universe and the possible existence of (strange) quark matter stars. Members of the ALICE-UK collaboration have given over 70 public lectures over the past five years and been involved in many other public outreach events to school children, teachers, and members of the general public.
Publications
Adam J
(2015)
Measurement of charm and beauty production at central rapidity versus charged-particle multiplicity in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 $$ \sqrt{s}=7 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Adam J
(2015)
Centrality dependence of particle production in p - Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physical Review C
Abelev B
(2015)
Multiplicity dependence of jet-like two-particle correlation structures in p-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Abelev B
(2015)
Measurement of electrons from semileptonic heavy-flavor hadron decays in p p collisions at s = 2.76 TeV
in Physical Review D
Adam J
(2015)
Inclusive, prompt and non-prompt J/? production at mid-rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at s N N = 2.76 $$ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Abelev B
(2015)
K * ( 892 ) 0 and ? ( 1020 ) production in Pb-Pb collisions at s N N = 2.76 TeV
in Physical Review C
ALICE Collaboration
(2015)
Production of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text] 7 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Adam J
(2015)
Measurement of jet suppression in central Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Abelev B
(2015)
Charged jet cross sections and properties in proton-proton collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physical Review D
Abelev B
(2015)
Production of inclusive ?(1S) and ?(2S) in p-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Adam J
(2015)
Coherent ? 0 photoproduction in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at s N N = 2.76 $$ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Adam J
(2015)
Coherent ?(2S) photo-production in ultra-peripheral Pb Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Abelev B
(2015)
Elliptic flow of identified hadrons in Pb-Pb collisions at s N N = 2.76 $$ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Adam J
(2015)
Centrality dependence of high-pT D meson suppression in Pb-Pb collisions at s N N = 2.76 $$ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{N}\;\mathrm{N}}}=2.76 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Adam J
(2015)
Two-pion femtoscopy in p -Pb collisions at s N N = 5.02 TeV
in Physical Review C
Adam J
(2015)
Measurement of pion, kaon and proton production in proton-proton collisions at [Formula: see text] TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Abelev B
(2015)
Inclusive photon production at forward rapidities in proton-proton collisions at $$\mathbf {\sqrt{s}}$$ s = 0.9, 2.76 and 7 TeV
in The European Physical Journal C
Adam J
(2015)
Centrality dependence of inclusive J/? production in p-Pb collisions at s N N = 5.02 $$ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=5.02 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Adam J
(2015)
Measurement of dijet k T in p-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Adam J
(2015)
Forward-backward multiplicity correlations in pp collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 0.9, 2.76 and 7 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Adam J
(2015)
Measurement of jet quenching with semi-inclusive hadron-jet distributions in central Pb-Pb collisions at s N N = 2.76 $$ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Adam J
(2015)
One-dimensional pion, kaon, and proton femtoscopy in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physical Review C
Adam J
(2015)
Rapidity and transverse-momentum dependence of the inclusive J/? nuclear modification factor in p-Pb collisions at s N N $$ \sqrt{s_{N\ N}} $$ = 5.02 TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Adam J
(2015)
Measurement of charged jet production cross sections and nuclear modification in p-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Adam J
(2016)
Production of K[Formula: see text](892)[Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text](1020) in p-Pb collisions at [Formula: see text] = 5.02 TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Adam J
(2016)
Measurement of an Excess in the Yield of J/? at Very Low p_{T} in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s]_{NN}=2.76 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Adam J
(2016)
Elliptic flow of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Adam J
(2016)
Correlated Event-by-Event Fluctuations of Flow Harmonics in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=2.76 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Adam J
(2016)
Direct photon production in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Adam J
(2016)
Centrality dependence of ?(2S) suppression in p-Pb collisions at s N N = 5.02 $$ {\sqrt{s}}_{\mathrm{NN}}=5.02 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Adam J
(2016)
Measurement of D s + production and nuclear modification factor in Pb-Pb collisions at s N N = 2.76 $$ \sqrt{ {\mathrm{s}}_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Adam J
(2016)
Pseudorapidity dependence of the anisotropic flow of charged particles in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Adam J
(2016)
Elliptic flow of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays at mid-rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at s N N = 2.76 $$ \sqrt{ {\mathrm{s}}_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Adam J
(2016)
Centrality dependence of the nuclear modification factor of charged pions, kaons, and protons in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physical Review C
Adam J
(2016)
Charge-dependent flow and the search for the chiral magnetic wave in Pb-Pb collisions at s N N = 2.76 TeV
in Physical Review C
Adam J
(2016)
Centrality Dependence of the Charged-Particle Multiplicity Density at Midrapidity in Pb-Pb Collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=5.02 TeV.
in Physical review letters
Adam J
(2016)
Forward-central two-particle correlations in p-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Adam J
(2016)
Transverse momentum dependence of D-meson production in Pb-Pb collisions at s N N = 2.76 $$ \sqrt{ {\mathrm{s}}_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Adam J
(2016)
Higher harmonic flow coefficients of identified hadrons in Pb-Pb collisions at s N N = 2.76 $$ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Adam J
(2016)
Pseudorapidity and transverse-momentum distributions of charged particles in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Adam J
(2016)
Centrality dependence of pion freeze-out radii in Pb-Pb collisions at s N N = 2.76 TeV
in Physical Review C
Adam J
(2016)
Production of light nuclei and anti-nuclei in p p and Pb-Pb collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
in Physical Review C
Adam J
(2016)
Inclusive quarkonium production at forward rapidity in pp collisions at [Formula: see text]TeV.
in The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields
Adam J
(2016)
Measurement of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays in p-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Adam J
(2016)
Centrality evolution of the charged-particle pseudorapidity density over a broad pseudorapidity range in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Adam J
(2016)
Differential studies of inclusive J/? and ?(2S) production at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at s N N = 2.76 $$ \sqrt{s_{\mathrm{NN}}}=2.76 $$ TeV
in Journal of High Energy Physics
Adam J
(2016)
Jet-like correlations with neutral pion triggers in pp and central Pb-Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Adam J
(2016)
H ? 3 and H ? ? ¯ 3 production in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Adam J
(2016)
Event-shape engineering for inclusive spectra and elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physical Review C
Adam J
(2016)
Particle identification in ALICE: a Bayesian approach
in The European Physical Journal Plus
Description | The ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC has created the highest temperatures and densities every produced in an experiment and re-created the primordial soup which would have existed up to 10 millionths of a second after the Big Bang. There are far too many key findings to list here but we have discovered this super hot and dense primordial soup behaves like a perfect liquid - the most perfect liquid every produced. |
Exploitation Route | This is an ongoing experiment, which will continue to upgrade and take data until at least 2030. |
Sectors | Education,Other |
Description | Findings from the ALICE experiment at the CERN LHC have been widely publicised in the media (TV, radio, newspapers, and web sites) and on a regular basis since 2010. Findings have also been extensively used in outreach activities, inspiring young people to study physics. |
First Year Of Impact | 2010 |
Sector | Education |
Impact Types | Cultural |
Description | ALICE Collaboration |
Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
Department | ALICE Collaboration |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Data analysis of LHC data from Run1 and Run2 (heavy-flavour physics working group). ITS upgrade project: Monte Carlo simulations, construction of modules and staves for the Outer Barrel. Supervision of UG and PhD student projects. Meetings of ALICE-UK research groups (Univ. of Birmingham, Univ. of Liverpool, STFC Daresbury). Presentations at conferences, meetings and workshops. |
Collaborator Contribution | Access to beam time, data, GRID and other CERN infrastructure and resources, ALICE collaboration international network etc. |
Impact | Publications. Training of UG and PhD students and research staff. Invitations to speak at meetings, workshops, conferences. |
Start Year | 2012 |
Description | ALICE guide visits |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Visits for public to ALICE detector at CERN , ongoing program done at CERN |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Conference talk at '10th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Conference talk showing new measurement of hadron+jet production (analysis of which I was the lead analyser). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/751767/ |
Description | Conference talk at 'Initial Stages 2021' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Conference talk summarising recent heavy flavour production measurements from ALICE in p-Pb collisions, in a parallel session (conference was held online) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://indico.cern.ch/event/854124/ |
Description | International Women Day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Panel Q&A ans discussion around the screening of the film 'Picture a scientist' by Sharon Shattuck & Ian Cheney (https://www.pictureascientist.com/) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Interview on BBC Radio 4 "Inside Science" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Jaime Norman (PhD student) was interviewed by Adam Rutherford (BBC Radio 4 "Inside Science") about the Heavy-Ion run at the LHC and the ALICE experiment. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Liverpool-CERN summer school for A level students |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Talk by Jaime Norman (PhD student) on the Standard Model. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | University of Liverpool Physics Society |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Jaime Norman (PhD student) gave a presentation to Physics undergraduates about his research on heavy-flavour measurements with the ALICE experiment. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Visit of ALICE experiment at CERN/LHC by a delegation of British MPs (Marielle Chartier, February 2018) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Official VIP visit by a delegation of a dozen British MPs to CERN, including the LHC and the ALICE experiment. Promoted the excellence of fundamental research performed at CERN and the positive impact it has on our society inlcuding techological advances, training opportunites of skilled staff, etc. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |