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 Philipp Kalweit
(Geneva, Switzerland)
Chairperson

Igor Altsybeev
(Munich, Germany)
Deputy

Roberta Arnaldi
(Turin, Italy)
Deputy

 

 

 

 

PWG-CF -Correlations and flow 

Conveners:

 

PAG: Correlations  

 

PAG: Event-by-Event / Fluctuations 

PAG: Femtoscopy

PAG: Flow   

PWG-DQ - Dileptons and Quarkonia 

Conveners:

 

PAG: J/psi electron decay

 

PAG: Quarkonium muon decays

 

PWG-EM - Electromagnetic probes

Conveners:

 

PAG: Low-mass dielectrons

 

PAG: Photons and neutral mesons

PWG-HF - Heavy Flavour

Conveners: 

 

PAG: Hadronic Decays of Heavy Flavours

 

PAG: Heavy Flavour Leptons (Electrons and Muons)

 

PAG: Heavy Flavour Correlations

 

PAG: Heavy Flavour Jets

(cross-PWG PAG with PWG-JE)

       

PWG-JE - Jets


Conveners:

 

PAG: Inclusive Jets and hard Photons

 

PAG: Jet Substructure

 

PAG: Heavy Flavour Jets

(cross-PWG PAG with PWG-HF)

 

 

 

PWG-LF - Light Flavour

Conveners: 

 

PAG: Resonances

 

PAG: Strangeness

 

PAG: Nuclei and Exotica

PWG-MM - Monte Carlo generators and Minimum Bias physics 

Conveners: 

 

PAG: Rivet and Generators   

 

PAG: Luminosity 

 

PAG: Multiplicity 

PAG: Underlying Event 

PWG-UD - Ultra-peripheral Collisions and Diffraction

Conveners: 

 

PAG: ​Ultra Peripheral Collisions

 

PAG: Diffraction

  • Paul Buhler
  • Rainer Schicker

 

PAG: Cosmics

 

 

Composition of the Physics Board

Physics Coordination

Conveners of the Physics Working Groups (PWGs)

Ex- officio members:

  

Invited members:

 

 

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, Karel Safarik, Jouri Belikov, Ruben Shahoyan, Sergey Voloshin): mailing list

 

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