Physics & Astronomy PAN Seminar by Prof. Anthony Timmins, U of Houston

"Future studies with the ALICE experiment"

The ALICE experiment was built to study many-body Quantum Chromo-Dynamics (QCD) at high temperature and effectively zero baryon density, using relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). These collisions form the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), a state of matter where quarks and gluons are no longer confined inside hadrons. The ALICE program centers around the key questions related to QGP phenomena. These include the macroscopic and microscopic properties of the QGP, and the details of the QGP phase transition to hadrons, that is believed to have taken place in the early Universe. At the same time, ALICE's versatile setup allows for the study of pp collisions, p--Pb collisions, and ultra-peripheral collisions. The associated studies can provide some of the most stringent tests of QCD and Beyond Standard Model searches. They serve as deep probes of the properties of cold nuclear matter, and allow for investigations of stellar and interstellar phenomena. I will discuss the planned upgrades for the ALICE experiment that will occur in the 2020s and 2030s. Prospects for future measurements will be presented in light of these upgrades.

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