Physics Board

The Physics Board (PB) coordinates and assesses activities concerning physics analyses and measurements. These activities are the focus of eight Physics Working Groups (PWGs), whose conveners are members of the PB. The PB also acts, in close connection with the Editorial Board and Conference Committee, as the steering group for the preparation of physics publications, notes and oral presentations.

 

The Physics Board formulates proposals to the MB and to the TB for the optimization of physics performance and the definition of running conditions. The activities of the PB and PWGs are presented in regular ‘Physics Forum’ meetings open to all Members of the Collaboration.

PB meetings

• Weekly Meetings (open to the Collaboration after minutes approval, 5-6 days after the meeting)

PB minutes

• Since 2020 the minutes are, for simplicity, only attached to the indico pages of the Weekly Meetings
• Minutes of PB meetings till 2019 

Public physics results

• ALICE publications (here grouped by PWG and colliding system: twiki link)
• ALICE public figures (published and preliminary)
• ALICE public notes 

Internal physics documents

• Analysis notes
• Paper drafts (in Collaboration review)
• Figure repository 

Physics Coordination

(Email: alice.physics.coordination@cern.ch)

Alexander Philipp Kalweit (Geneva, Switzerland) Chairperson

Fiorella Fionda (Cagliari, Italy) Deputy

Igor Altsybeev (Munich, Germany) Deputy

Composition of the Physics Board

Physics Coordination

• Physics Coordinator: Alexander Philipp Kalweit (Geneva, Switzerland)
• Physics Coordinator Deputies: Igor Altsybeev (Munich, Germany) , Fiorella Fionda (Cagliari, Italy)  

Conveners of the Physics Working Groups (PWGs)

• PWG-CF: Oton Vazquez Doce (Frascati, Italy) , Qiye Shou (Shanghai, China)  
• PWG-DQ: Cristiane Jahnke (Campinas, Brazil) , Luca Micheletti (Turin, Italy)  
• PWG-EM: Ivan Vorobyev (Geneva, Switzerland) , Daiki Sekihata (Tokyo, Japan)   
• PWG-HF: Fabio Filippo Colamaria (Bari, Italy) , Fabrizio Grosa (Geneva, Switzerland)   
• PWG-JE: Raymond James Ehlers Iii (California, United States) , Nima Zardoshti (Geneva, Switzerland)   
• PWG-LF:  Nicolo Jacazio (Bologna, Italy) , Sourav Kundu (Geneva, Switzerland)   
• PWG-MM: [alice:PWG-MM-Convener:all:link:location] 
• PWG-UD: Joakim Ingemar Nystrand (Bergen, Norway) , Roman Lavicka (Vienna, Austria)  

Ex- officio members:

• Spokesperson: Marco Van Leeuwen (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Deputy Spokespersons: Bedangadas Mohanty (Jatni, India) , Kai Oliver Schweda (Darmstadt, Germany)
• Collaboration Board chair: Marielle Chartier (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
• Collaboration Board Deputy chairs: Grazia Luparello (Trieste, Italy) , Siegfried Valentin Foertsch (Somerset West, South Africa)
• Technical Coordinator: Werner Riegler (Geneva, Switzerland)
• Computing Resource coordinator:  Stefano Piano (Trieste, Italy)
• Trigger Coordinators: Roman Lietava (Birmingham, United Kingdom) , Maximiliano Puccio (Geneva, Switzerland)
• Run Coordinator and deputy: Andrea Ferrero (Saclay, France) and  Robert Helmut Munzer (Frankfurt, Germany)
• Editorial Board co-chairs:  Francesco Prino (Turin, Italy) , Zaida Conesa Del Valle (Orsay, France)
• Conference Committee chairs: Marie Germain (Nantes, France) , Cristina Terrevoli (Bari, Italy)
• Upgrade Coordinators: Antonio Di Mauro (Geneva, Switzerland) , Andrea Dainese (Padova, Italy)
• Service Work Board chair: Massimo Masera (Turin, Italy)
• Software, physics Data processing and Computing (SDC) coordinator: Andreas Morsch (Geneva, Switzerland)

  

Invited members:

• O2 PDP Deputy Project Leader: Peter Zahariev Hristov (Geneva, Switzerland)
• Analysis Coordinator: David Dobrigkeit Chinellato (Vienna, Austria)
• Data Preparation Group Coordinators: Chiara Zampolli (Geneva, Switzerland) , Alberto Caliva (Salerno, Italy)
• Reconstruction Coordinator: Ruben Shahoyan  

 

 

Other groups and activities in the physics area

Machine Learning and Statistics

• ALICE Machine Learning group (coordinators: Francesco Mazzaschi, Fabio Catalano): meetings; CERN ML group 
• ALICE Statistics group (chair: Davide Pagano, members: Claude Pruneau, Peter Hristov, Jouri Belikov, Ruben Shahoyan, Sergey Voloshin): mailing list

 

Inter-experiment groups with LPCC (LHC Physics Centre at CERN) 

• Heavy ion working group (ALICE conveners: Alexander Kalweit, Marta Verweij) 
• Jets and EW working group (ALICE conveners: James Mulligan, Nima Zardoshti)
• Minimum-bias and underlying event (ALICE conveners: Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus, Valentina Zaccolo)
• Forward physics and diffraction (ALICE conveners: Gerardo Herrera, Martin Poghosyan)