Mötesplats Rydberg - (David Silvermyr) - "ALICE experiment upgrades"

Tuesday 26 Apr 2022, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Stockholm

Rydberg hall

Abstract: Particle Physics explores the fundamental forces of nature and the basic constituents of matter, with the current main activities in Sweden at the high-energy frontier being experiments using the complementary ATLAS and ALICE facilities at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. The LHC is the largest scientific instrument ever built, with Swedish participation from the experiment design and development stages starting 30 years ago, taking data since more than 10 years, and now preparing for upgrades to the detectors for the next decades of world-leading science.

The Swedish participation in LHC research comprises about 70 researchers and PhD students in 5 research groups, 4 of them active in ATLAS, and one (from Lund University) in ALICE. I will discuss the LU ALICE group’s research activities, in particular regarding detector/hardware contributions. We recently received support from VR/RFI to contribute to a project with truly novel technology for the innermost particle tracking detector in ALICE in the next upcoming LHC Long Shutdown (LS 3), which is of interest to all groups active at LHC. The new technology with detector and electronics integrated in the same silicon promises spinoff to many types of radiation detection in the future, including X-ray imaging.

The meeting is held in the Rydberg lecture hall with the possibility to join digitally: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/910953381