1. ALICE Outreach News ALICE Visits Outreach material Various
LHC restart + media day
Masterclasses
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2. ALICE Visits
ALICE has been flooded with visits ~2900 visitors this year
Schools, Universities (1540)
Private visitors - family and friends (540)
Collaborators (176)
VIPs (225)
Professional visitors (390)
Photographers, film makers, television crews, journalists (63)
Main attraction : underground visit
Surface exhibition at Point 2
What will we offer to the public after LHC starts ?
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3. Outreach Material
Effort to document the consolidation and installation work done during the shutdown
with films and photographs
New photographs on CDS (by Max Brice)
360 degrees photograph
of the cavern before closing
EMCAL installation
Miniframe Reinstallation
Films on CDS (by CERN Audiovisual Service and Communications)
LHC news : ALICE gets beam (from transfer line T12 tests July 2009)
LATEST WORK IN ALICE ( July 2009)
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4. Outreach Material
Interactive presentation of ALICE + simulation of collisions (by Warsaw University of Technology)
Recently translated to english - will be included in exhibition at P2
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5. ALICE corner building 40
Install 180 X 360 cm2 poster with first events (cosmics - multimuons, injection..)
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6. Various
Big Screen (+Computer) to be installed at the entrance of ALICE building
Show event displays from real data
Test bench for similar installation in the townhall of Sergy
Could be duplicated inside CERN and outside (ALICE institutes)
Austrian student doing interdisciplinary PhD is working on
Sonification* of ALICE data - end product can be used in exhibition
The TPC treated as "Sonic Wire Chamber", where the electrons impact on strings of different frequency
*Sonification is a new method of data display and is defined as the use of audio
to convey information.
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7. Plans for LHC restart
Accept 1 TV crew / up to 5 persons from media inside ALICE Control Room
Install big screen for event displays outside control room
Setup “welcome” area outside control room (coffee corner)
Install tables where people can sit for interviews, if necessary
Use Conference Room at Point 2 (3294-R-008) for interviews/working space
Can consider doing short presentations in 3294-R-008 if there is time
Show Point 2 exhibition to explain the experiment if there is time for the press
Have “dedicated” person who can inform/update press about what is
happening in ALICE
Need input as to the number of media expected and duration of their stay
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8. Plans for LHC restart
CERN Audiovisual Service will have camera permanently installed inside ACR
ALICE photographers taking photographs inside ACR
Load photographs on web page for collaborators and media
Put event displays on dedicated web site for collaborators and media
The details to be elaborated
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9. ALICE plans for Masterclasses
Proposed exercise (to be implemented by the Birmingham group)
Measure strangeness production in reference sample and “interesting” event sample / compare
Strangeness enhancement is one of the signatures for production of Quark-Gluon Plasma
Analyse sets of events containing strange particles including cascades (Ω- Ξ- ) and V0s
Ω- -> Λ + K- ( Λ -> p + π- )
Ξ- -> Λ + π- ( Λ -> p + π- )
Classify cascade according to topology + PID
Count number of strange particles and calculate ratios
Tools :
Standard ALICE Event Display (AliEVE)
special tool for V0 and cascade visual analysis (developed by Strasbourg group)
Data sets to be used : Start with Monte Carlo and later real data
Start with proton-proton (low multiplicity sample + high multiplicity sample)
Then light ions
Pb-Pb collisions complicated - events difficult to analyse by eye - time consuming
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