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Heavy Ion Physics in Czech Republic

Heavy Ion Physics in Czech Republic. Structure Experiments Results. CERES NA 45. Structure of activities in Heavy Ion Physics. CTU in Prague Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering. Nuclear Physics Institute ASCR. Charles University in Prague Faculty of Mathematics

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Heavy Ion Physics in Czech Republic

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  1. Heavy Ion Physics in Czech Republic Structure Experiments Results Vojtěch Petráček FNSPE CTU, CFRJS Michal Šumbera NPI ASCR, CFRJS

  2. CERES NA 45 Structure of activities in Heavy Ion Physics CTU in Prague Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering Nuclear Physics Institute ASCR Charles University in Prague Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Institute of Physics ASCR Center for Physics of Ultra-relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

  3. Experiments

  4. Research teams • CTU FNSPE Miloš Pachr, Vojtěch Petráček, Libor Škoda, Vladimír Wágner, Boris Tomašík, Petr Jizba,Vladimír Pospíšil, Jiří Král, David Tlustý, Martin Kroupa, Michal Petráň, Radek Šmakal, Filip Mohyla, Jan Rusňák, Jaroslav Adam Staff 5.5 , 1 PhD student , 8 undergraduate students (+4FTE from ‘07 ) • NPI ASCR Michal Šumbera,Andrej Kugler,Dagmar Adamová,Světlana Kušpilová,Vasilij Kušpil,Imrich Zborovský,Pavel Tlustý, Vladimír Wágner, Michal Zerola, Filip Křížěk, T. Krása, Petr Chaloupka, Michal Bysterský, Pavel Jakl, Jan Kapitán, Staff 8.5, 5 PhD students, 1 undergraduate students (+2FTE from ‘07 ) • IP ASCR Petr Závada,Jiří A. Mareš, Karel Polák, Martin Nikl, Eva Mihóková, A.Beitlerová, J. Pejchal Staff 6, 1 PhD student • Charles University Jiří Dolejší, Martin Spousta Staff 1, 1 PhD student

  5. Physics motivation • Creation of hot, dense and deconfined medium • Study of properties of this medium • Study of hadronization and thermalization • Study of collective phenomena • Exploration of new phenomena PHASE DIAGRAM OF QCD MATTER

  6. SDD beam tests Bulk doping inhomogenities Low Voltage Power supply System for SDD Inner Tracking System With integrated SDD And SSD layers Evaluation of SDD radiation tolerance Detector Control System Microcable testers for SDD hybrid readout electronics • Local detector calibration • Detector Control System of SDD • Tests of Silicon drift detectors, detector selection for assembly ALICE ITS

  7. Production of PHOS support structure • „CRADLE“ in TENEZ Chotěboř • Tests of PWO crystals • for 2. and 3. PHOS supermodule ALICE PHOS • Preparation of new PWO scintilator crystals • with non-stechiometric Ba, Mo and Y doping PHOS CRADLE in design and in reality CRADLE during the transport down to the experiment

  8. ALICE Physics • Heavy quark production  p-p and A-A collisions • D meson flow • Energy loss of light and heavy quarks in deconfined matter • High Pt particle correlations • Systematics of particle production in  p-p and A-A • Femtoscopy – correlation of identical and non-identical particles • Event-by-event physics - jet detection in A-A, DCC and detection of granular source by MRA • Study of early stages of the HI collision

  9. ATLAS Heavy Ion Jets and jet quenching in HI collision at ATLAS ... More details in talk of R. Leitner

  10. STAR  -  correlations • First high statistics measurements of -correlations • Coulomb and strong FSI were observed • Sensitivity to source size in  peak was found • New spherical harmonics representation of data allowed • us to observe clear shift between average emission • points of pi and X sources in qualitative agreement with • transversally expanding source. Heavy Flavor Tracker for STAR upgrade centralvs peripheral Open charm measurement Development of DAQ ASIC for Active Pixel Sensor

  11. CERES NA 45 NA45/CERES • Low mass di-lepton spectrum • K+K- and e+e- reconstruction •  - and  - p correlations • Transverse momentum fluctuations • High Pt particle correlation • Particle flow • Open charm reconstruction Operation of Silicon drift detectors and RICH electronics

  12. NA57/WA97 • Study of strange and multi-strange baryon • production in lead-lead collisions • Strangeness enhancement grows • with the strangeness of the produced hadron. up to a factor 20 for the Omega baryons!

  13. CBM Study of compressedbaryonic matter near the critical point of the QCD phase diagram • Open charm measurement • Event-by-event fluctuations • Participation inSilicon Tracking System and Micro-Vertex Detector • Contribution in detector control system, power supply system • Silicon detector testing and assembly • HADES experiment will be incorporated

  14. HADES Low mass di-lepton measurement Participation in Time of Flight detector Forward Hodoscope Data analysis: coordination of hadron physics e+e- invariant mass distributions

  15. Summary and outlook • HI community consists of 21 scientists, 8 PhD students and 9 undergraduate students • Coordinated education of students • Experiments cover wide range of nuclear matter conditions • Rich experimental program • Equilibrated detector construction, operation and physics analysis • LHC coming soon ...

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