Objective
The ALICE experiment is a highly complex project involving about 1000 physicists from around the world. Both India and the United Kingdom are involved in it. The aim of the project is to study the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), anew form of matter, which exists at extremely high energy densities. In ALICE these will be achieved through high temperatures, up to one million times hotter than the centre of the sun. The main purpose of my work at Birmingham would be dedicated to physics analysis, where simulations can already be used in preparation for real data. I aim to take a major role in the physics analysis programme currently underway at Birmingham, which is studying the production of short-lived resonances.
These particles are produced for times about as short as the collision itself, and the number observed is highly dependent on the collisions of the decay product in ""final state"" interactions. It may also be possible to use them as an indicator for whether a second phase transition involving a phenomenon called ""chiral symmetry restoration"" has taken place. Birmingham is also involved in the design and construction of the Central Trigger Processor (CTP).
I would also aim to be involved in this project, in two ways. On a practical level I a m interested in the design of a web-based graphical interface allowing control of the CTP. In addition, I am interested in studying the tuning of the trigger to optimise trigger rates for data taking. Many processes can be measured, and their contribution to the overall data rate must be tuned by scaling factor to achieve the most efficient physics analysis. I am interested in this project as I wrote the original trigger simulation program some six years ago.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata science
- natural sciencesphysical sciencestheoretical physicsparticle physicsparticle accelerator
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyphysical cosmologybig bang
- natural sciencesphysical sciencestheoretical physicsparticle physicsgluons
- natural sciencesphysical sciencestheoretical physicsparticle physicsquarks
Call for proposal
FP6-2004-MOBILITY-7
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