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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 11: Invited Talks II

HK 11.2: Hauptvortrag

Dienstag, 31. März 2020, 11:30–12:00, H-HS X

Ten years after: Highlights from ALICE and future perspectives — •Harald Appelshäuser for the ALICE collaboration — Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

After ten years of operation at the CERN-LHC, ALICE has accumulated an impressive amount of experimental results from collisions of protons and heavy ions at the energy frontier. They help understanding the QCD phase transition at vanishing net baryon density, and elucidate the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma, a state of matter where the confinement of quarks and gluons is lifted and chiral symmetry is restored. Moreover, ALICE results contribute in a unique way to the understanding of extreme matter at high baryonic densities, such as neutron stars, and other related subjects including hyperonic interactions and the properties of hypernuclei.

During the present LHC Long Shutdown 2, ALICE undergoes a substantial detector upgrade to cope with a significant increase of the interaction rate in Pb-Pb to 50 kHz, expected at the LHC in 2021 and beyond. In this presentation, recent highlights from ALICE are presented and the physics perspectives for running with an upgraded ALICE detector in the next decade are discussed.