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Exploring fundamental matter and forces under extreme conditions at the Large Hadron Collider

Alex ReadDepartment of Physics

Møtet med fakultetet - juni 2009

”CERN-satsingen”

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Vision and goals

• Vision: To explore the fundamental nature of matter and the basic forces that shape our universe.

• Goals:– To study and understand how collective phenonema and

macroscopic properties of nuclear matter emerge from the microscopic laws of elementary particle physics

– To study the phase transition of nuclear matter to a quark-gluon plasma and the properties and time evolution of the deconfined state of matter

– To discover or disprove the existence of the Higgs boson predicted by the electroweak theory – the last unconfirmed part of the Standard Model

– To obtain evidence for or disprove Supersymmetry as a fundamental symmetry of nature

ALICE

ATLAS

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Manpower• Leader of the research group:

– Prof. Alex Read (ATLAS, grid, physics)

• Additional participants:– Prof. Larissa Bravina (ALICE, theory)

– Prof. Trine Tveter (ALICE, physics)

– Prof. Gunnar Løvhoiden (ALICE, physics, retired)

– Prof. Bernhard Skaali (ALICE, instrumentation, retired)

– Prof. Lars Bugge (ATLAS, tracking S/W, physics)

– Prof. Farid Ould-Saada (ATLAS, grid, physics, Nor. ATLAS leader)

– Prof. II Are Strandlie (ATLAS, software)

– Prof. Torleiv Buran (ATLAS, inner detector, physics, retired)

– Prof. Steinar Stapnes (instrumentation)

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Manpower (ALICE+ATLAS only)• Engineer:

– Jon Wikne (40%, ALICE)

• ATLAS Postdocs:

– Yuriy Pylypchenko

– Ole Myren Røhne (50%)

– Bjørn Samset

– Børge Gjelsten

– Adrian Taga (50% grid)

• ALICE Postdocs:

– Evgeny Zabrodin (Theory)

– Jovan Milosovic (YFF)

– Rodion Kolevatov, Ludmilla Malinina (1 position!)

• MS students: 2 (ATLAS)

• ALICE PhD students:

– Kenneth Aamodt (YFF)

– Ionut C. Arsene (quota program, 05.09)

– Per T. Hille (YFF, 05.09)

– M.S. Nilsen (toppforsk!)

– Olja Dordic

– Svein Lindal

– Gyulnara Eyyubova

• ATLAS PhD students

• Katarina Pajchel (UiO, ??.09)

• Maiken Pedersen (toppforsk!)

• Eirik Gramstad (toppforsk!)

• Lillian Smestad (NFR)

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Manpower

• Grid researchers and students– Jon Kristian Nilsen (NGIn+USIT)– Thomas Frågåt (KnowARC)– Aleksandr Konstatinov (KnowARC)– Weizhong Qiang (KnowARC)– Esben Lund (KnowARC)– Adrian Taga (EVITA, ATLAS)

• Strong synergy between ATLAS computing and general grid activities!

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Special challenges• ALICE and ATLAS groups @ UIO are physically and

organisationally separated from each other and have complementary experiments and physics interests

– 2 CERN-related NFR projects, parts of 2 FI research groups

• We have instrumentation and operating budgets and postdocs from NFR, but little for PhD stipends

• Toppforsk-application dealt with harvesting ALICE and ATLAS physics results but this is only part of the total activity

– Detector instrumentation (operation, new developments)– Accelerator physics– Computations (Grid)– Software development– Outreach

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Conclusion and outlook

• This group is poised to take advantage of years of investments in LHC development and construction.

• Activity builds on strong synergy between– Physics

– Instrumentation

– Software development

– Grid

• On the threshold of a new and exciting era of particle physics, extreme energies and densities of matter.– MS and PhD projects galore

• Looking forward to commissionning first physics data this autumn!

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For discussion...

• Can we agree on English and Norwegian names for this project/satsing, etc?– e.g. ”Nukleærforskning CERN-miljøet” in ”Kvalitet og relevans”/UiO

– ”CERN-miljøet” i årsrapporten for satsingene

– ”CERN-miljøet knyttet til ALICE- og ATLAS-eksperimentene” i tildelingsbrevet