Wednesday 3 February 2010

Speaker:   David Evans   (Univ. of Birmingham)

Title:   Physics Performance and First Results from the ALICE Experiment at the LHC

Abstract:

ALICE is an LHC detector designed to study the physics of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions.
It's excellent tracking and PID also make it an ideal detector to study the global properties of
proton-proton collisions at the LHC. A brief introduction to ALICE physics and some high-lights of
results from RHIC will be shown together with the ALICE detector's performance and first results
from ALICE.