Practical information on the workshop, recent achievemts of the group and goals of the worshop are presented.
A brief summary is given of the composition of the group and the general research topics that it covers. The spirit and goals of the meeting as well as its evolution in the last few years are presented.
Phonons are the quasi-particles representing lattice vibrations of condensed matter. Why is it convenient to talk about vibrational quanta as particles? And why do we want to study them anyway? Phonons are some of the most promising low-energy excitations (O(meV)) that can be used in the detectors of tomorrow for capturing the feeblest interactions that lurk beyond the boundaries of the...
Writing papers is one of the fundamental activities of any scientist. In this talk, a few basic concepts on writing papers are provided. The general components and potential structure of scientific papers are presented. The different typical journals and their style as well as restrictions on length, number of figures and so on are discussed. Particulars of some published papers are shown.
The silicon photomultipliers are becoming a very commonly used sensor devised to measure very low levels of light (in the order of single photons) from scintillator materials, Cherenkov radiators and other light sources. Good calibration of these devices is a very useful test to adjust a proper voltage level to work in a specific experiment.
In this hands-on session, the participants will...
One of the main motivations of the meeting is to share the different techniques that one member of the team uses so that the rest of the team can profit from this knowledge. A case in point is the estimation of model parameters using data that has correlated uncertainties. A method based on Lagrange multipliers, used by the H1 and ALICE Collaboration, is presented. An example of its...
Prepare to delve into the fascinating intersection of particle physics and machine learning. Our mission is to demystify the intricate landscape of decision trees while maintaining a conversational and accessible tone. We'll navigate beyond theory, delving into the practical implications of decision trees. These powerful algorithms play a central role in deciphering complex datasets by...
An enhancement of the baryon-to-meson ratio has been observed for the inclusive production of light-flavour particles at intermediate transverse momenta (2 GeV/c < pT < 6 GeV/c) in heavy-ion collisions when compared to the ratio measured in proton-proton (pp) collisions at both RHIC and LHC collision energies. This enhancement is commonly attributed to parton coalescence and recombination in a...
Models for deuteron, light nuclei, distorted nuclei and heavy nuclei are presented using potentials suggested by Woods-Saxon and the fitting of analytic functions to the resulting thickness functions.
Quantum tomography is a method to experimentally extract all that is observable about
a quantum mechanical system. The tomographic method bypasses much of the
field-theoretic formalism to concentrate on what can be observed with experimental data, and how
to characterize the data. The method of quantum tomography uses a known “probe” to explore an unknown system. Data
is related directly...
Ultra-peripheral collisions present an opportunity to study long-range interactions between heavy ions. A frequently studied process is vector meson photoproduction, which gives insight into low-$x$ phenomena such as gluon shadowing or saturation. Collisions of a new ion species would improve our understanding of the nucleon number dependence of photoproduction cross sections. A short LHC...
The ALICE Collaboration is divided into several working groups. The group, which is focusing on physics analysis of the UPC events, is called PAG-UPC and is successfully investigating the ALICE data for over a decade. In this talk, the current plans of the group for the analyses of the newest Run 3 data will be introduced.
