Manifesto ALICE - Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for

«ETTORE MAJORANA» FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE
TO PAY A PERMANENT TRIBUTE TO GALILEO GALILEI, FOUNDER OF MODERN SCIENCE
AND TO ENRICO FERMI, THE “ITALIAN NAVIGATOR”, FATHER OF THE WEEK FORCES
THE WORLD YEAR OF PHYSICS 2005
INFN ELOISATRON PROJECT
THE 1st PHYSICS ALICE WEEK
47th Workshop: Physics of Hadronic Interactions at LHC
with Nucleons and Nuclei and Phase Transition Physics
ERICE-SICILY: 4 - 10 DECEMBER 2005
Sponsored by the: • Italian Ministry of Education, University and Scientific Research • Sicilian Regional Government
TOPICS AND LECTURERS
Complexity and New Physics with ALICE
• A. ZICHICHI, CERN and University of Bologna
PREPARATION FOR FIRST PHYSICS
First few minutes of physics with ALICE
• J.P. REVOL, CERN, Geneva, CH
First pp analysis
• C. JORGENSEN, CERN, Geneva, CH
Minimum-bias triggers and luminosity considerations for pp collisions
• G. CONTRERAS NUNO, CINEVASTAS, MX
T0 trigger for pp collisions
• W. TRZASKA, University of Jyvaskyla, FIN
Leading forward neutrons in pp collisions at ALICE
• G. CONTRERAS NUNO, CINEVASTAS, MX
Tracking performance
• M. IVANOV, CERN, Geneva, CH
Track matching and background subtraction in NA60
• R. SHAHOYAN, CERN, Geneva, CH
Tuning of the SPD response simulation
• G. BRUNO, INFN, Bari, I
Spectra in pp and dAu collisions at RHIC
• B. MOHANTY, Kolkata, India
Overview of STAR results
• H. CAINES, Yale, New Haven, CT, USA
TOF Matching Performance
• S. ARCELLI, INFN, Bologna, I
SOFT PHYSICS
Effective Energy and Muliplicity at LHC
• F. NOFERINI, INFN, Bologna, I
Global event characterisation
• E. SCOMPARIN, INFN, Torino, I
Multiplicity analysis in PbPb
• T. VIRGILI, INFN, Salerno, I
Freeze-out criteria and hadronisation dynamics
• H. OESCHLER, Darmstadt, D
Strangeness and intermediate pT at RHIC and prospects for LHC
• B. HIPPOLYTE , Strasbourg, F
Optimization of reconstruction of strange particles in ALICE
• L. GAUDICHET, INFN, Torino, I
Charm and strangeness quark yield and chemistry in an expanding QGP
• J. RAFELSKI, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Statistical model predictions for PbPb and pp at LHC
• I. KRAUS, CERN, Geneva, CH
Rho meson: RHIC and prospects for LHC
• R. PLATT, University of Birmingham, UK
Phi meson: RHIC results and prospects for LHC
• B. BATYUNYA, JINR, Dubna, RU
• A. DE CARO, INFN, Salerno, I
Event mixing for background subtraction: phi meson analysis as an example
• P. HRISTOV, CERN, Geneva, CH
Reconstruction of K*(892)0 in ALICE
• A. BADALA’, INFN, Catania, I
Elliptic flow: RHIC and prospects for LHC
• N. BORGHINI, CERN, Geneva, CH
Elliptic flow reconstruction in ALICE
• E. SIMILI, University of Utrecht, NL
Reaction plane determination with ALICE's ZDC
• N. DE MARCO, INFN, Torino, I
Relativistic charged particle ID in ALICE TPC
• M. BOMBARA, SASKE, Kosice, CZ
Study of pion-Xi correlations at RHIC
• M. SUMBERA, Prague, CZ
How to measure scattering lengths in ALICE
• G. RENAULT, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, DK
HBT at RHIC and future plans at LHC
• J. PLUTA, University of Warsaw, PL
Fluctuation measurements
• G. TORRIERI, McGill, Montreal, CDN
EbyE fluctuations at RHIC and prospects for LHC
• T. NAYAK, CERN, Geneva, CH
PT-Nch correlations in pp, pbar-p and prospects for ALICE
• D. DERKACH, CERN, Geneva, CH
HEAVY FLAVOUR PHYSICS
Experimental conditions for quarkonia measurements in ALICE
• G. MARTINEZ GARCIA, Nantes, F
Results on J/psi production at RHIC energies
• V.N. TRAM, LLR, Palaiseau, F
Quarkonia suppression: recent progress and new questions
• C. LOURENCO, CERN, Geneva, CH
Charmonium production at RHIC and expectations for LHC
• P. BRAUN-MUNZINGER, Darmstadt, D
Quarkonia in ultra-peripheral nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC and LHC energies
• D. D'ENTERRIA, LLR, Palaiseau, F
Expectations for Upsilon production at LHC
• P. CROCHET, Clermont Ferrand, F
Muon-trigger performances and rates, in PbPb, ArAr and pp collisions at LHC
• F. GUERIN, Clermont Ferrand, F
Charmonium production in proton-proton collisions at LHC
• D. STOCCO, INFN, Torino, I
Quarkonia studies with the ALICE central barrel
• W. SOMMER, Frankfurt, D
W-boson detection in pp and PbPb collisions at LHC
• Z. CONESA DEL VALLE, Nantes, F
Statistical model analyses at SPS and production of multiply heavy flavoured
baryons at LHC
• F. BECATTINI, INFN, Firenze, I
Introduction to open heavy-flavour detection
• F. ANTINORI, INFN, Padova, I
Heavy-flavour production and parton-energy loss
• C. SALGADO, CERN, Geneva, CH
Heavy-flavour production at fixed target and colliders
• H. WOEHRI, CERN, Geneva, CH
D0 detection in Alice
• A. DAINESE, INFN, Padova, I
Linear discriminant analysis for charm detection
• J. FAIVRE, INFN, Padova, I
Secondary-vertex reconstruction for the D+
• E. BRUNA, INFN, Torino, I
Perspective for the measurement of the D+ elliptic flow
• F. PRINO, INFN, Torino, I
Heav-flavour collectivity
• K. SCHWEDA, Heidelberg, D
Beauty detection in the central detector
• R. TURRISI, INFN, Padova, I
Beauty measurements in pp with the central detector
• C. BOMBONATI, INFN, Padova, I
Beauty detection in the muon arm
• R. GUERNANE, Clermont Ferrand, F
Alice sensitivity for the measurement of heav-flavour quenching
• A. DAINESE, INFN, Padova, I
HIGH-PT AND GAMMA PHYSICS
Jet physics at the LHC
• U. WIEDEMANN, CERN, Geneva, CH
Jet physics at the RHIC, lessons for LHC
• M. LOPEZ NORIEGA, CERN, Geneva, CH
Di-jet suppression and monojet emission: a signal for QGP and black holes at LHC
• H. STOECKER, Frankfurt, D
Jet reconstruction at the LHC
• A. MORSCH, CERN, Geneva, CH
The jet analysis framework in AliRoot
• G. CONTRERAS NUNO, CINEVASTAS, MX
What we could learn from lepton production in nuclei
• P. DI NEZZA, INFN, INFN, Frascati, I
Probing the QCD medium with photons
• F. ARLEO, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, CH
Photon physics at RHIC, lessons for LHC
• S. BATHE, Munster, D
Measuring thermal photon at the LHC
• Y. KHARLOV, Protvino, RU
Measuring prompt photon at the LHC
• G. CONESA BALBASTRE, Nantes, F
EMCal for ALICE
• Y. SCHUTZ, Nantes, F
PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOP
POETIC TOUCH
Collisions between heavy nuclei at the forthcoming LHC, scheduled to start
operation in 2007, will explore deconfined strongly interacting matter under extreme
conditions. At energies never before reached in the laboratory, initial conditions will
be significantly different and more favourable than those achieved at SPS and RHIC
and a number of new signatures will become accessible for the first time.
The aim of this Workshop is to review the current status in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion
physics and to discuss the physics programme of the dedicated LHC heavy-ion experiment,
ALICE.
According to legend, Erice, son of Venus and Neptune, founded a small
town on top of a mountain (750 metres above sea level) more than three thousand
years ago. The founder of modern history — i.e. the recording of events in a
methodic and chronological sequence as they really happened without reference
to mythical causes — the great Thucydides (~500 B.C.), writing about events
connected with the conquest of Troy (1183 B.C.) said: «After the fall of Troy
some Trojans on their escape from the Achaei arrived in Sicily by boat and as
they settled near the border with the Sicanians all together they were named
Elymi: their towns were Segesta and Erice.» This inspired Virgil to describe
the arrival of the Trojan royal family in Erice and the burial of Anchise, by his
son Enea, on the coast below Erice. Homer (~1000 B.C.), Theocritus (~300
B.C.), Polybius (~200 B.C.), Virgil (~50 B.C.), Horace (~20 B.C.), and others
have celebrated this magnificent spot in Sicily in their poems. During seven
centuries (XIII-XIX) the town of Erice was under the leadership of a local
oligarchy, whose wisdom assured a long period of cultural development and
economic prosperity which in turn gave rise to the many churches, monasteries
and private palaces which you see today. In Erice you can admire the Castle of Venus, the Cyclopean Walls
(~800 B.C.) and the Gothic Cathedral (~1300 A.D.). Erice is at present a mixture
of ancient and medieval architecture. Other masterpieces of ancient civilization
are to be found in the neighbourhood: at Motya (Phoenician), Segesta (Elymian),
and Selinunte (Greek). On the Aegadian Islands — theatre of the decisive naval
battle of the first Punic War (264-241 B.C.) — suggestive neolithic and paleolithic
vestiges are still visible: the grottoes of Favignana, the carvings and murals of
Levanzo.
Splendid beaches are to be found at San Vito Lo Capo, Scopello, and
Cornino, and a wild and rocky coast around Monte Cofano: all at less than one
hour’s drive from Erice.
APPLICATIONS
Interested candidates should write to the Director of the Course:
Professor Eugenio NAPPI
INFN - Sezione di Bari
Via G. Amendola, 173
70124 BARI, Italy
Email: [email protected]
• PLEASE NOTE
Participants must arrive on December 4, not later than 5 pm.
More information about the «Ettore Majorana» Foundation and Centre
for Scientific Culture can be found on the WWW at the following address:
http://www.ccsem.infn.it
E. NAPPI - J. SCHUKRAFT
DIRECTORS OF THE WORKSHOP
L. CIFARELLI - K. SAFARIK
CHAIRPERSONS OF THE ORGANIZER COMMITTEE
A. ZICHICHI
EMFCSC PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE