ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) – heavy ion experiment at the CERN-LHC aimed to study the properties of QGP (Quark and Gluon Plasma) CGC (Colored Glass Condensate) obtained in the high-energy relativistic collisions of nuclei.
Involvement of the Institute for Space Sciences in the ALICE collaboration
• Science
At the present time the Institute for Space Sciences is involved in the study of jet structures resulting in the proton-proton interactions. A jet identification program based on the median cone algorithms used by CDF was implemented into AliROOT (ALICE’s software framework), and the jet structure studies are currently under way with emphasis on the preparation for the first physics runs.
• Computing
- developers in the ALICE core offline team are actively involved in the development of baseline software products for ALICE.
- design and implementation of the ALICE data analysis framework.
- collaboration to the study of the FMS (Forward Muon Spectrometer), and in particular of the S/N ratios and the significance of the ε-family detection with the FMS.