24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation1 ALICE Hannah Scott University of Birmingham.

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24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation1 ALICE Hannah Scott University of Birmingham

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation2 Introduction  ALICE is one of the experiments set to run at the Large Hadron Collider accelerator at CERN  ALICE is the only one of these experiments purpose built to explore the properties of a new state of matter – the Quark Gluon Plasma

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation3 What is matter?  All matter is made up of fundamental particles  The nucleus of an atom is made of protons and neutrons which in turn are made of quarks

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation4 The Nucleus  Because the nucleus contains charged particles with a total positive charge it should be unstable and explode due to electromagnetic repulsion  The same is true for the proton as it contains charged quarks and has a charge of +1 overall

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation5 The Strong Interaction  There is another force holding the nucleus and the proton together – the strong force  The strong force binds the protons in the nucleus and the quarks in the proton  It is this interaction which we study using the ALICE detector

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation6 Phases of matter  Ordinary matter can exist in different phases under different conditions e.g. varying temperature and pressure – represented in a phase diagram  But can nuclear matter also exist in different phases?

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation7 The Strong Interaction Again  One of the unique features of the strong interaction is that quarks are always bound e.g. in a proton or a neutron  Unlike the electromagnetic interaction (where free charges e.g. electrons are seen) a free quark has never been observed  But are quarks bound under all conditions?

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation8 Proton Mass  Another strange thing about hadrons - the masses of the individual quarks are much smaller than the total mass of the hadron  E.g the proton:  Over 98% of the mass we see around is created by the strong interaction!

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation9 Quark Gluon Plasma  We want to know what happens to quarks (and the strong interaction) when they are exposed to conditions of high temperature and density – like those shortly after the big bang  The quarks and gluons become deconfined – they behave as free particles and their masses drop to their intrinsic values

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation10 Nuclear Matter Phase Diagram

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation11 Creating the QGP  Two heavy ions (Lead atoms stripped of all their electrons) are collided at high energy to create extremely high densities  The temperature reaches Kelvin – 10,000 times hotter than the centre of the sun

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation12 ALICE at the LHC  The LHC is the highest energy collider ever built  There are 4 experiments set to run at the LHC – ALICE is the dedicated heavy ion detector

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation13 ALICE collisions  ALICE studies the QGP by detecting particles resulting from the ion collisions  ALICE also looks at proton-proton collisions as a reference to compare results from QGP creating collisions with “ordinary” particle collision

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation14 Particle Detectors  Particle detectors are comprised of many sub-detectors – each to identify different kinds of particles. There is also a magnet to separate the positive and negatively charged particles

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation15 ALICE detector  ALICE Consists of sub-detectors in a magnetic field of 0.5 Tesla, 10,000 times as strong as the Earth's field  The main sub- detectors are used to track and identify the thousands of charged particles produced per collision

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation16 ALICE detector  What it really looks like!

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation17 ALICE detector  To give an idea of scale

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation18 ALICE Computing  Computing and storage requirements are large.  1.2Gb of data stored per second - equivalent to a DVD film every 6 seconds.  If stored on CDs, stack of CDs would be about a mile high. All this detector information must be stored

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation19 Summary  Normal nuclear matter is made of quarks, which are always confined (e.g in a proton)  At sufficiently high temperature and density, there is a phase transition to a state in which quarks are free - the quark-gluon plasma.  This state is studied at the ALICE experiment by colliding lead nuclei at high energy and measuring the particles emitted.  Study of this should help us understand the strong interaction.

24/04/2007ALICE – Masterclass Presentation20 Lead-Lead Collision at Alice