ALICE

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is one of the four large detectors installed at the LHC. Its main scientific objective is to study the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), furthermore the detector is also ideal to study many other aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

The activities of our group are the following

Instrumentation

We participate in two detector projects FIT and MFT.
In the FIT project we are in charge of the FDD (Forward Diffraction Detector) which has been built in our laboratory in Prague. It is an instrument based on scintillators, wave-length shifters and PMTs. It has two arms: one is already installed at the LHC and the second will be installed in the next few weeks.

In the MFT (Muon Forward Tracker) project we have participated in the construction and commissioning of the detector. Currently we are in charge of the quality control system and planning to take an important role on the operation of the detector.

Analysis of data

We are strongly involved in three type of analyses: Correlations and flow, ultra-peripheral collisions and luminosity determination. Members of our groups, including students, have led several studies that have been published in some of the most reputed journals of the fields

Phenomenology

Our group is in close contact with our theorist friends, both in our own institution and in other institutions around the world and collaborates with them in the development of models and observables that could be tested experimentally. This collaboration has been very fruitful and has produced several articles in high-impact journals.

Group Members

The members of our group are, and have been, members of the main governing bodies of the collaboration: Physics Board, Conference Committee, Editorial Board, Juniors and so on. Currently our group is formed by 4 senior scientists, 3 younger colleagues with a few years of experience after their PhD, and several students at the PhD, MSc and BSc levels.

Faculty

prof. Jesus Guillermo Contreras, Ph.D. e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., room: 220, Břehová 7, Praha, phone: 420224358266 Field of interest: * Ultra-peripheral collisions, saturation and shadowing * Numerical solution of Balitsky-Kovchegov equation * Luminosity measurment with van der Meer scans

doc. Mgr. Jaroslav Bielčík, Ph.D. e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., room: 14a, Břehová 7, Praha, phone: 420224358350 Field of interest: * Fyzika produkce těžkých kvarků na experimentech STAR a ALICE * Tvrdé procesy v jaderných srážkách na experimentech STAR a ALICE

doc. RNDr. Vojtěch Petráček, CSc. e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., room: A-916, Jugoslávských partyzánů , Praha, phone: 420224353486 Field of interest: * Metody rekonstrukce jetu a toku * Těžké kvarky v dekonfinované hmotě * Křemíkové detektory pro budoucí dopředný kalorimetr ALICE * Křemíkové driftové detektory * Gravitační interakce antivodíku

Mgr. Michal Broz, Ph.D. e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Field of interest: * Prenos baryónového čísla pri LHC energiách * Fotoprodukcia vektorových mezónov v ultraperiferálnych zrážkach

Ing. Katarína Křížková Gajdošová, Ph.D. e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Field of interest: * Kolektivita v malých srážkových systémech na experimentu ALICE

RNDr. Karel Šafařík, CSc. e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Field of interest:

Solangel Torres Rojas, Ph.D. e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Field of interest:

Students

Ing. Tomáš Herman e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., room: 415, Břehová 7, Praha Supervisor: prof. Guillermo Contreras Nuno Topic: Studium fotoprodukce na ALICE

Ing. David Horák e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Supervisor: prof. Guillermo Contreras Topic: Produkce vektorových mezonů v ultra-periferálních srážkách na ALICE

Ing. Roman Lavička e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Supervisor: prof. Guillermo Contreras Topic: Ultraperiferní srážky na experimentu ALICE

Bc. Vendulka Fílová e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Supervisor: prof. Guillermo Contreras Topic: Koherentní J/ψ fotoprodukce v Pb-Pb srážkách s emisí dopředných neutronů z LHC Run 2 dat

Bc. David Grund e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Supervisor: prof. Guillermo Contreras Topic:

Bc. Diana Mária Krupová e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Supervisor: prof. Guillermo Contreras Topic:

Sára Haidlová e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Supervisor: prof. Jesus Guillermo Contreras Topic: Azimutální asymetrie v koherentní J/Psi fotoprodukci na experimentu ALICE

Helena Hesounová e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Supervisor: prof. Jesus Guillermo Contreras Topic: Měření multiplicity v pp srážkách v rámci experimentu ALICE během LHC Run 3

Bc. Daniel Mihatsch e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Supervisor: Topic:

Vojtěch Zabloudil e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Supervisor: prof. Jesus Guillermo Contreras Topic: Konstrukce a zprovoznění detektoru FDD