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
Adamová D
(2018)
J/? production as a function of charged-particle pseudorapidity density in p-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2020)
Search for a common baryon source in high-multiplicity pp collisions at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2023)
Photoproduction of low-pT J/? from peripheral to central Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2022)
K S 0 K S 0 and K S 0 K± femtoscopy in pp collisions at s = 5.02 and 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2020)
Measurement of electrons from semileptonic heavy-flavour hadron decays at midrapidity in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2018)
Inclusive J/? production in Xe-Xe collisions at s NN = 5.44 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2022)
Neutral to charged kaon yield fluctuations in Pb - Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2021)
Jet-associated deuteron production in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
Multiplicity dependence of (anti-)deuteron production in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2024)
Measurements of inclusive J/? production at midrapidity and forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Adam J
(2015)
Measurement of jet suppression in central Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2018)
Azimuthally-differential pion femtoscopy relative to the third harmonic event plane in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2022)
Observation of a multiplicity dependence in the pT-differential charm baryon-to-meson ratios in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2018)
Anisotropic flow in Xe-Xe collisions at s NN = 5.44 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2018)
First measurement of jet mass in Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Adam J
(2016)
Pseudorapidity and transverse-momentum distributions of charged particles in proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2021)
Production of muons from heavy-flavour hadron decays at high transverse momentum in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 and 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2022)
Measurement of K?(892)± production in inelastic pp collisions at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2020)
Multiplicity dependence of inclusive J/? production at midrapidity in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2020)
Evidence of rescattering effect in Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC through production of K ( 892 ) 0 ? and ?(1020) mesons
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
Dielectron and heavy-quark production in inelastic and high-multiplicity proton-proton collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2023)
Study of charged particle production at high pT using event topology in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2020)
Investigation of the p-S0 interaction via femtoscopy in pp collisions
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2021)
Measurements of mixed harmonic cumulants in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2018)
Constraining the magnitude of the Chiral Magnetic Effect with Event Shape Engineering in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2020)
Measurement of strange baryon-antibaryon interactions with femtoscopic correlations
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2023)
Multiplicity dependence of charged-particle production in pp, p-Pb, Xe-Xe and Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2017)
Measuring K S 0 K ± interactions using Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Adam J
(2017)
J/? suppression at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Abelev B
(2015)
Production of inclusive ?(1S) and ?(2S) in p-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2023)
Elliptic flow of charged particles at midrapidity relative to the spectator plane in Pb-Pb and Xe-Xe collisions
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2022)
Production of ? and K S 0 in jets in p-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV and pp collisions at s = 7 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2021)
Transverse-momentum and event-shape dependence of D-meson flow harmonics in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2020)
Global baryon number conservation encoded in net-proton fluctuations measured in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Adam J
(2015)
Coherent ?(2S) photo-production in ultra-peripheral Pb Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
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
Acharya S
(2019)
Study of the ?-? interaction with femtoscopy correlations in p p and p-Pb collisions at the LHC
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2024)
Measurement of the radius dependence of charged-particle jet suppression in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2023)
Measurement of the production of (anti)nuclei in p-Pb collisions at s NN = 8.16 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
Acharya S
(2019)
Measurement of jet radial profiles in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
Transverse momentum spectra and nuclear modification factors of charged particles in Xe-Xe collisions at s NN = 5.44 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2023)
Constraining hadronization mechanisms with ? c + / D 0 production ratios in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
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
(2017)
?-Meson production at forward rapidity in p-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV and in pp collisions at s = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2019)
Direct photon elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 2.76 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2023)
First measurement of O c 0 production in pp collisions at s = 13 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2022)
Measurement of prompt D s + -meson production and azimuthal anisotropy in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV
in Physics Letters B
Acharya S
(2023)
Measurement of beauty-strange meson production in Pb-Pb collisions at s NN = 5.02 TeV via non-prompt D s + mesons
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
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 |