Abtract:
Collisions of heavy ion beams with the center-of-mass energies of 2.7 A∙TeV and higher, which have been made possible by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, open unprecedented opportunities in investigation of the nuclear matter at extremely high temperatures. A different state of matter – the Quark-Gluon Plasma – which is thought to have dominated in the Universe within the first 10 microseconds after the Big Bang, may be now reproduced in the laboratory. ALICE is the only experiment at LHC specifically dedicated to study the ion collisions. Ambitious scientific goals required that the newest and sometimes unique experimental techniques be implemented on a large scale within the ALICE detector.
Coffee and tea will be served 20 minutes prior to the seminar