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High Energy Nuclear Physics Program 2006-2011

High Energy Nuclear Physics Program 2006-2011. Status report April 2009 Experimental activity Focus on ALICE Groups at UiO, UiB, HiB Theoretical activity Groups at UiO and UiB ISOLDE. Overview. PhD and Master (since November 2007) Publications (since November 2007). Budget.

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High Energy Nuclear Physics Program 2006-2011

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  1. High Energy Nuclear Physics Program 2006-2011 Status report April 2009 Experimental activity Focus on ALICE Groups at UiO, UiB, HiB Theoretical activity Groups at UiO and UiB ISOLDE

  2. Overview PhD and Master (since November 2007) Publications (since November 2007)

  3. Budget

  4. Budget 2006 Budget Expenditure 3437 280 - 82 + 442 (misc) 1371 1042 494 Dag Larsen 1.11.06 Boris Wagner 1.11.06 (50%) 6673

  5. Budget 2007 Budget Expenditure 607 (from 2006) - 531 (UiO) 978 515 - 63 + 573 (misc) 1958 1881 871 3.2008 546 Dag Larsen - 863 408 Boris Wagner (50%) 455 Kalliopi Kanaki 1.6.2007 6336

  6. Budget 2008 Budget Expenditure -1071 (from 2007) - 880 25 - 62 + 144 (misc) 2018 2057 269 3.2008 582 Dag Larsen Temp. contracts engineer UiB 1074 367 Boris Wagner (50%) 708 Kalliopi Kanaki - 6336

  7. Budget - summary • M&O cat. A: higher than expected • M&O cat B: lower than forseen • Running costs of commissioning/data taking: underestimated • CERN mobile phones • cables and fibres, electronic components, air-tight flansches • bug fixing, re-soldering of FECs • rental car for transport to P2 • PVSS course • ... • Travel and subsistence – OK • Postdoc/stipend positions • Johan Alme hired was as engineer for one additional year • Missing engineer at UiB for one year: several temporary contracts • Status of today: 21116 kNOK spent (out of 36889 kNOK)

  8. Manpower status April 2009 Master students Rikard Bølgen (UiB, ALICE instrumentation) Dana Huang (UiB, ALICE physics) Henrik Qvigstad (UiB, ALICE physics) HiB project Master students in instrumentation (see Steinar’s presentation) Hege Erdal Kristian Ytre-Hauge Camilla Stokkevag Per Ivar Lønne Andreas Samnøy Stian Sagevik (Medical physics)

  9. Manpower status April 2009 PhD students Njål Brekke Medical physics Bergen

  10. Manpower status April 2009 Postdocs * * Two postdocs sharing one position at UiO (Theory), starting in 2009

  11. Manpower status April 2009 Permanent staff (experiment) Permanent staff (theory)

  12. Group structure and expertise Postdocs: Jovan Milosevic 1 PhD student Bernhard Skaali (retired) Gunnar Løvhøiden (retired) Trine Tveter UiO Electronics UiO Nuclear Physics 2 PhD students Håvard Helstrup Kristin Fanebust Hetland Bjarte Kileng Postdocs: Boris Wagner Kalliopi Kanaki 1 PhD student HiB Technical Computing Joakim Nystrand Dieter Røhrich 2 PhD students 1 PhD student UiB Nuclear Physics Kjetil Ullaland UiB Microelectronics

  13. Experiment

  14. Complete: ITS, TPC, TOF, HMPID, FMD, T0, V0, ZDC, Muon arm, Acorde Partial installation: 1/5 PHOS 4/18 TRD 9/48 PMD 0/6 EMCAL ~ 40% DAQ/HLT ALICE Status Installation targets met by mid 2008 Status of ALICE – September 2008 Ready to take data

  15. Status of ALICE – Summer 2009 100% TPC 80% HLT 3/5 PHOS

  16. Time Projection Chamber - TPC • Norwegian in-kind contribution to FEE • Status • The TPC in its final position at P2 was successfully commissioned in 2008 with Krypton gas, laser tracks and cosmics • Currently services are being reconnected

  17. Time Projection Chamber - TPC The Norwegian groups participated • in the development • of the read-out electronics (read-out controller unit), • of the trigger electronics (busy box) • and of the field layer of the DCS for the FEE, • in the integration of the TPC into the Trigger, HLT and DCS systems, • in the installation of the FEE and • in the commissioning.

  18. PVSS II (FED - Client) Supervisory Layer Front-End Device Interface (FED) FED Server Configuration Data Base InterComLayer Control Layer FEE Client Front-End Electronics Interface (FEE) Cmd / ACK Channel FeeServer FeeServer FeeServer Field Layer Service Channel Message Channel Internal Bus Systems Hardware Device Hardware Device Hardware Device Time Projection Chamber – RCU/DCS • Summary of activities/achievements in 2007-2009 (DL, Matthias Richter, Sebastian Bablok, DF, Johan Alme, Ketil Røed) • RCU firmware: Trigger If • DCS software (CE and FES) • Installation and Commissioning

  19. BUSY Generation • Busy box (hardware, firmware, DCS software) • Installation and commissioning

  20. Calibration strategies - TPC Raw data • Sequence of ADC counts per pad • pad-number, pad-row and arrival time of signal on pad Calibrated data • Cluster charge • Space coordinate of cluster centroid Reconstructed data • dE/dx • Particle trajectory gain reconstruction electron attachement alignment electrostatic distortions ExB effects space charge effects t0, drift velocity • Online/Offline interfaces • Drift velocity calibration

  21. Radiation tolerant read-out controller unit • Modelling of the SEUs (in collaboration with IBM) • Integration of the reconfiguration procedure into DCS

  22. PHOton Spectrometer - PHOS • Norwegian core contribution to read-out chain • APD + preamp + T-card • FEE, trigger • Status • The first module had been commissioned and calibrated with cosmics in the PHOS-lab in 2007 and at P2 (in its final position) in 2008, although it had not been not cooled down to -21 degrees. • At the end of 2008 it was removed from the pit. This module and two further modules are now being inserted into air-tight casings, re-assembled, tested and installed at P2.

  23. PHOton Spectrometer - PHOS • The Norwegian groups contributed to the development of the read-out electronics (preamplifier, front-end and trigger electronics and read-out controller unit). • They participated in the integration of PHOS into the Trigger, DAQ, HLT and DCS systems, in beam tests and in the commissioning in the lab and at P2. • They have supplied accompanying simulations of the physics capabilities, detector performance and trigger selectivity and rates. • Summary of activities/achievements in 2007-2009(Per-Thomas Hille, OD, DL, KS, LL): • DCS for the FEE • Integration with DAQ, ECS, Trigger and DCS • Firmware design of the FEC board controller • Firmware design of the L0 and L1 trigger generation • Commissioning the first module • Calibration of the first module with cosmics • Development of online data processing, filtering and trigger algorithms • Development of online monitoring and calibration tools

  24. High Level Trigger - HLT • Norwegian corecontribution to the HLT cluster • Status:The first phase of the HLT installation is completed: full detector connectivity. • All interfaces to other subsystems are in place; • tested reconstruction chains are available.

  25. High Level Trigger - HLT • Summary of activities/achievements in 2007-2009 • Methods and algorithms for an on-line selection of (rare) signals (KK, MR, SB, KA, GO, OD) • TPC • PHOS • A common HLT analysis framework has been developed that allows to run online code inside the AliROOT offline framework and vice versa (MR) • Interfaces to all other relevant subsystems, i.e. ECS, DCS and OFFLINE have been developed, implemented and tested (SB) • We also contribute to the cluster management and the online monitoring of the HLT system (ØH)

  26. Preparing for physics analysis • Study of flow phenomena in pp collisions (JM), study of the ALICE detector performance for elliptic flow measurements, study of possibility to measure directed flow • Correlations (JM, MN) • Study of gamma-hadron jets (SL) • Reconstruction of neutral pions via gamma conversions in the TPC (KA) • Online reconstruction of open charm (GO) • Transverse neutral energy production in p+p and A+A collisions (OD) • Study of two-photon and photonuclear processes in ultra-peripheral collisions at the LHC (KS)

  27. Theory • The Bergen group continued the development and testing of our hybrid 3D-hydrodynamical models for QGP scenarios: a Multi-Module Model for describing the reaction’s initial preequilibrium stage, the intermediate thermally equilibrated hydrodynamical stage, and the final freeze-out stage. The main goal was to incorporate the Constituent Quark Number (CNQ) scaling in the hydro calculations, and Freeze-Out. • The Oslo group studied the possible thermalization and Equation of State of hot and dense nuclear matter in heavy-ion collisions within the microscopic transport models, the collective anisotropic flow and two-particle correlations. The group also worked on a fast MC Generator, implemented in ALIROOT, which contains a statistical model, PYTHIA, jet quenching and flow with impact parameter dependence; on the implementation of cold nuclear effects from Glauber Gribov Theory in HYDJET-generator and on the production of heavy quarkonium.

  28. ISOLDE • 2006 • 2007 • 300 kNOK ISOLDE membership fee • 2008 • 300 kNOK ISOLDE membership fee • Since 2007 • ISOLDE theory (Jan Vaagen, Morten Hjorth-Jensen, Eivind Osnes) supported by the ALICE project

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