ALICE Physics Organization

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

Public physics results

Internal physics documents

 

Physics Coordination

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

 


Alexander Kalweit
(CERN)
Chairperson


Igor Altsybeev
(TUM, Munich)
Deputy


Roberta Arnaldi
(INFN Torino)
Deputy

  

 

 

 

PWG-CF -Correlations and flow 

Conveners:

  • Mesut Arslandok 
  • Katarina Krizkova Gajdosova

 

PAG: Correlations  

  • Lucia Tarasovicova
  • Victor Gonzalez

 

PAG: Event-by-Event / Fluctuations 

  • Ante Bilandzic
  • Sumit Basu

PAG: Femtoscopy

  • Georgy Kornakov 
  • Raffaele Del Grande

PAG: Flow   

  • Qiye Shou
  • Vytautas Vislavicius  

PWG-DQ - Dileptons and Quarkonia 

Conveners:

  • Fiorella Fionda
  • Laure Massacrier

 

PAG: J/psi electron decay

  • Xiaozhi Bai
  • Yvonne Pachmayer

 

PAG: Quarkonium muon decays

  • Maxime Guilbaud
  • Luca Micheletti

 

PWG-EM - Electromagnetic probes

Conveners:

  • Raphaelle Bailhache
  • Mike Henry Petrus Sas

 

PAG: Low-mass dielectrons

  • Sebastian Scheid
  • Ivan Vorobyev

 

PAG: Photons and neutral mesons

  • Joshua Konig
  • Norbert Novitzky

PWG-HF - Heavy Flavour

Conveners: 

  • Gian Michele Innocenti
  • Fabio Colamaria

 

PAG: Hadronic Decays of Heavy Flavours

  • Xinye Peng
  • Luuk Vermunt 

 

PAG: Heavy Flavour Leptons (Electrons and Muons)

  • Nicole Bastid
  • Guillaume Taillepied

 

PAG: Heavy Flavour Correlations

  • Deepa Thomas
  • Marianna Mazzilli

 

PAG: Heavy Flavour Jets

(cross-PWG PAG with PWG-JE)

  • Robert Vertesi
  • Nima Zardoshti
       

PWG-JE - Jets


Conveners:

  • Laura Havener 
  • Yaxian Mao 

 

PAG: Inclusive Jets and hard Photons

  • Jaime Norman
  • Nicholas Schmidt

 

PAG: Jet Substructure

  • Raymond Ehlers 
  • Wenqing Fan

 

PAG: Heavy Flavour Jets

(cross-PWG PAG with PWG-HF)

  • Robert Vertesi
  • Nima Zardoshti

 

 

 

PWG-LF - Light Flavour

Conveners: 

  • Alberto Calivà
  • Nicolo Jacazio

 

PAG: Resonances

  • Sourav Kundu
  • Bong-Hwi Lim

 

PAG: Spectra

  • Nicolo' Jacazio 
  • Ivan Ravasenga

 

PAG: Strangeness

  • Lee Barnby
  • Marek Bombara

 

PAG: Nuclei and Exotica

  • Chiara Pinto
  • Luca Barioglio

PWG-MM - Monte Carlo generators and Minimum Bias physics 

Conveners: 

  • Chiara Oppedisano
  • Sushanta Tripathy

 

PAG: Rivet and Generators   

  • Antonin Maire
  • Marco Giacalone

 

PAG: Luminosity 

  • Jesus Guillermo Contreras Nuno
  • Martino Gagliardi

 

PAG: Multiplicity 

  • Guya Bencedi
  • Beomkyu Kim

PAG: Underlying Event 

  • David Sylvermir
  • Omar Vazquez Rueda

PWG-UD - Ultra-peripheral Collisions and Diffraction

Conveners: 

  • Paul Buhler
  • Daniel Tapia Takaki

 

PAG: ​Ultra Peripheral Collisions

  • Adam Matyja
  • Aleksandr Bylinkyn

 

PAG: Diffraction

  • Paul Buhler
  • Rainer Schicker

 

PAG: Cosmics

  • Bruno Alessandro
  • Mario Rodriguez

 

 

Composition of the Physics Board

Physics Coordination

  • Alexander Kalweit ALICE Physics Coordinator (PC), Physics Board Chair
  • Igor Altsybeev (Deputy PC), Roberta Arnaldi (Deputy PC)

Conveners of the Physics Working Groups (PWGs)

  • PWG-CF: M. Arslandok, K. Krizkova Gajdosova
  • PWG-DQ: F. Fionda, L. Massacrier
  • PWG-EM: R. Bailhache, M. Sas
  • PWG-HF: F. Colamaria, G. M. Innocenti
  • PWG-JE: L. Havener, Y. Mao
  • PWG-LF: A. Calivà, R. Lea
  • PWG-MM: C. Oppedisano, S. Tripathy
  • PWG-UD: P. Buhler, D. Tapia Takaki

Ex- officio members:

  • Spokesperson: Marco van Leeuwen
  • Deputy Spokespersons: Kai Schweda, Bedangadas Mohanty
  • Collaboration Board chair: Marielle Chartier
  • Collaboration Board Deputy chairs: Grazia Luperallo and Siegfried Foertsch
  • Technical Coordinator:  Werner Riegler 
  • Computing Resource coordinator: Stefano Piano
  • Trigger Coordinator: M. Puccio, R. Lietava
  • Run Coordinator and deputy: Sarah Porteboeuf, Andrea Ferrero
  • Editorial Board co-chairs: Javier Castillo and Francesco Prino 
  • Conference Committee chair: Marie Germain
  • Upgrade Coordinators: Jochen Klein and Andrea Dainese
  • Service Work Board chair: Massimo Masera

  

Invited members:

  • Software, physics Data processing and Computing (SDC) coordinator and deputy: Andreas Morsch, Peter Hristov 
  • Analysis Coordinator: David Dobrigkeit Chinellato
  • Data Preparation Group Coordinators: Chiara Zampolli and Francesco Noferini 
  • Reconstruction Coordinator: Ruben Shahoyan  

 

 

Other groups and activities in the physics area

Machine Learning and Statistics

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

 

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