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Heavy Ion Physics in Czech Republic Structure Experiments Results 9.3.2007 Vojtěch Petráček FNSPE CTU, CFRJS Michal Šumbera NPI ASCR, CFRJS Structure of activities in Heavy Ion Physics CTU in Prague Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering Center for Physics of Ultra-relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions CERES NA 45 Nuclear Physics Institute ASCR Charles University in Prague Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Institute of Physics ASCR Experiments Experiment Preparation Construction Running Data analysis ALICE - + + - + + + + + + ATLAS HI STAR upgrade preparation NA45 CERES + - NA57/WA97 CBM HADES Research teams CTU FNSPE Miloš Pachr, Vojtěch Petráček, Libor Škoda, Vladimír Wágner, Boris Tomašík, Petr Jizba, Vladimír Pospíšil, Jiří Král, David Tlustý, Martin Kroupa, Michal Petráň, Radek Šmakal, Filip Mohyla, Jan Rusňák, Jaroslav Adam Staff 5.5 , 1 PhD student , 8 undergraduate students (+4FTE from ‘07 ) NPI ASCR Michal Šumbera,Andrej Kugler,Dagmar Adamová,Světlana Kušpilová,Vasilij Kušpil,Imrich Zborovský,Pavel Tlustý, Vladimír Wágner, Michal Zerola, Filip Křížěk, T. Krása, Petr Chaloupka, Michal Bysterský, Pavel Jakl, Jan Kapitán, Staff 8.5, 5 PhD students, 1 undergraduate students (+2FTE from ‘07 ) IP ASCR Petr Závada,Jiří A. Mareš, Karel Polák, Martin Nikl, Eva Mihóková, A.Beitlerová, J. Pejchal Staff 6, 1 PhD student Charles University Staff 1, 1 PhD student Jiří Dolejší, Martin Spousta Physics motivation PHASE DIAGRAM OF QCD MATTER Creation of hot, dense and deconfined medium Study of properties of this medium Study of hadronization and thermalization Study of collective phenomena Exploration of new phenomena ALICE ITS SDD beam tests Bulk doping inhomogenities Low Voltage Power supply System for SDD Inner Tracking System With integrated SDD And SSD layers Microcable testers for SDD hybrid readout electronics Detector Control System Evaluation of SDD radiation tolerance • Local detector calibration • Detector Control System of SDD • Tests of Silicon drift detectors, detector selection for assembly ALICE PHOS • Production of PHOS support structure „CRADLE“ in TENEZ Chotěboř Completing – central and side parts Final completation of the PHOS CRADLE with the rollers • Tests of PWO crystals for 2. and 3. PHOS supermodule • Preparation of new PWO scintilator crystals with non-stechiometric Ba, Mo and Y doping PHOS CRADLE in design and in reality CRADLE during the transport down to the experiment ALICE Physics Heavy quark production p-p and A-A collisions D meson flow Energy loss of light and heavy quarks in deconfined matter High Pt particle correlations Systematics of particle production in p-p and A-A Femtoscopy – correlation of identical and non-identical particles Event-by-event physics - jet detection in A-A, DCC and detection of granular source by MRA Study of early stages of the HI collision ATLAS Heavy Ion Jets and jet quenching in HI collision at ATLAS ... More details in talk of R. Leitner STAR - correlations high statistics measurements of - correlations • Coulomb and strong FSI were observed • Sensitivity to source size in peak was found • New spherical harmonics representation of data allowed us to observe clear shift between average emission points of pi and X sources in qualitative agreement with transversally expanding source. • First Heavy Flavor Tracker for STAR upgrade central vs peripheral Open charm measurement Development of DAQ ASIC for Active Pixel Sensor CERES NA 45 NA45/CERES • Low mass di-lepton spectrum • K+K- and e+e- reconstruction - and - p correlations • Transverse momentum fluctuations • High Pt particle correlation • Particle flow • Open charm reconstruction • Operation of Silicon drift detectors and RICH electronics NA57/WA97 • Study of strange and multi-strange baryon production in lead-lead collisions • Strangeness enhancement grows with the strangeness of the produced hadron. up to a factor 20 for the Omega baryons! CBM Study of compressed baryonic matter near the critical point of the QCD phase diagram • Open charm measurement • Event-by-event fluctuations • Participation in Silicon Tracking System and Micro-Vertex Detector • Contribution in detector control system, power supply system • Silicon detector testing and assembly • HADES experiment will be incorporated HADES Low mass di-lepton measurement Participation in Time of Flight detector Forward Hodoscope Data analysis: coordination of hadron physics e+e- invariant mass distributions Summary and outlook HI community consists of 21 scientists, 8 PhD students and 9 undergraduate students Coordinated education of students Experiments cover wide range of nuclear matter conditions Rich experimental program Equilibrated detector construction, operation and physics analysis LHC coming soon ...