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)

Andrea Dainese (INFN Padova, Italy) Chairperson

Cvetan Cheshkov (ip2i Lyon, France) Deputy

Alexander Kalweit (CERN) Deputy

Physics Working Groups (PWGs) and Physics Analysis Groups (PAGs)

 

PWG-CF -Correlations and flow  Conveners: Igor Altsybeev  Laura Fabbietti   PAG: Correlations   Lukasz Graczykowski Victor Gonzalez   PAG: Event-by-Event / Fluctuations  Ante Bilandzic Tapan Nayak PAG: Femtoscopy Valentina Mantovani Sarti  Helena Rogochaya PAG: Flow    Rihan Haque Vytautas Vislavicius	PWG-DQ - Dileptons and Quarkonia  Conveners: Fiorella Fionda Laure Massacrier   PAG: J/psi electron decay Xiaozhi Bai Cristiane Jahnke   PAG: Quarkonium muon decays Maxime Guilbaud Luca Micheletti	PWG-EM - Electromagnetic probes Conveners: Raphaelle Bailhache Mike Henry Petrus Sas   PAG: Low-mass dielectrons Daiki Sekihata Ivan Vorobyev   PAG: Photons and neutral mesons Meike Danisch Norbert Novitzky	PWG-HF - Heavy Flavour Conveners:   Cristina Terrevoli   PAG: Hadronic Decays of Heavy Flavours Xinye Peng Luuk Vermunt    PAG: Heavy Flavour Leptons (Electrons and Muons) Nicole Bastid Martin Volkl   PAG: Heavy Flavour Correlations Fabio Colamaria Marianna Mazzilli   PAG: Heavy Flavour Jets (cross-PWG PAG with PWG-JE) Robert Vertesi Nima Zardoshti
PWG-JE - Jets Conveners: Yaxian Mao Marta Verweij    PAG: Inclusive Jets and hard Photons Jaime Norman Nicholas Schmidt   PAG: Jet Substructure Raymond Ehlers  Laura Havener   PAG: Heavy Flavour Jets (cross-PWG PAG with PWG-HF) Robert Vertesi Nima Zardoshti	PWG-LF - Light Flavour Conveners:  Alberto Calivà Ramona Lea   PAG: Resonances Sourav Kundu Jihye Song   PAG: Spectra Nicolo' Jacazio  Ivan Ravasenga   PAG: Strangeness Lee Barnby Marek Bombara   PAG: Nuclei and Exotica  Alberto Caliva Luca Barioglio	PWG-MM - Monte Carlo generators and Minimum Bias physics  Conveners:  Chiara Oppedisano Valentina Zaccolo   PAG: Rivet and Generators    Antonin Maire Antonio Oliveira da Silva   PAG: Luminosity  Jesus Guillermo Contreras Nuno Martino Gagliardi   PAG: Multiplicity  David Dobridgekeit Chinellato Beomkyu Kim PAG: Underlying Event  Chiara Oppedisano Sushanta Tripathy	PWG-UD - Ultra-peripheral Collisions and Diffraction Conveners:  Paul Buhler Spencer Klein   PAG: ​Ultra Peripheral Collisions Adam Matyja Igor Pshenichnov   PAG: Diffraction Paul Buhler Rainer Schicker   PAG: Cosmics Bruno Alessandro Mario Rodriguez

Composition of the Physics Board

Physics Coordination

• Andrea Dainese, ALICE Physics Coordinator (PC), Physics Board Chair
• Cvetan Cheshkov (Deputy PC), Alexander Kalweit (Deputy PC)

Conveners of the Physics Working Groups (PWGs)

• PWG-CF: I. Altsybeev, L. Fabbietti
• PWG-DQ: F. Fionda, L. Massacrier
• PWG-EM: R.Bailhache, M.Sas
• PWG-HF: C. Terrevoli
• PWG-JE: Y. Mao, M. Verweij
• PWG-LF: A. Calivà, R. Lea
• PWG-MM: C. Oppedisano, V. Zaccolo
• PWG-UD: P. Buhler, S. R. Klein

Ex- officio members:

• Spokesperson: Luciano Musa
• Deputy Spokespersons: Barbara Erazmus and Mateusz Ploskon
• Collaboration Board chair: Silvia Masciocchi
• Collaboration Board Deputy chairs: Marielle Chartier and Ken Oyama
• Technical Coordinator:  Werner Riegler 
• Computing Resource coordinator: Stefano Piano
• Trigger Coordinator: Martino Gagliardi 
• Run Coordinator: Federico Ronchetti  
• Editorial Board co-chairs: Javier Castillo and Francesco Prino 
• Conference Committee co-chairs: Roberta Arnaldi and Dariusz Miskowiec  
• Software, physics Data processing and Computing (SDC) coordinator): Andreas Morsch 
• Analysis Coordinator: Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus 
• Data Preparation Group Coordinator and Deputy: Chiara Zampolli and Francesco Noferini 
• Barrel Tracking Group Coordinator: Ruben Shahoyan  
• Upgrade Coordinators: Jochen Klein and Marco van Leeuwen
• Service Work Board chair: Kai Schweda

 

Other groups and activities in the physics area

Machine Learning and Statistics

• ALICE Machine Learning group (coordinator: Fabio Catalano): meetings; CERN ML group 
• ALICE Statistics group (members: Davide Pagano, Claude Pruneau, Peter Hristov, Karel Safarik, 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)