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)

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

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: M. Arslandok, L. Fabbietti
• PWG-DQ: F. Fionda, L. Massacrier
• PWG-EM: R.Bailhache, M.Sas
• PWG-HF: C. Terrevoli, G. M. Innocenti
• PWG-JE: L. Havener, Y. Mao
• PWG-LF: A. Calivà, R. Lea
• PWG-MM: C. Oppedisano, V. Zaccolo
• PWG-UD: P. Buhler, D. Tapia Takaki

Ex- officio members:

• Spokesperson: Luciano Musa
• Deputy Spokespersons: Barbara Erazmus and Mateusz Ploskon
• 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: Martino Gagliardi 
• Run Coordinator and deputy: Federico Ronchetti, Sarah Porteboeuf
• Editorial Board co-chairs: Javier Castillo and Francesco Prino 
• Conference Committee co-chairs: Roberta Arnaldi and Dariusz Miskowiec
• Upgrade Coordinators: Jochen Klein and Marco van Leeuwen
• Service Work Board chair: Kai Schweda

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 (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)