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Performance of the ALICE muon trigger system in pp and Pb/en-dashPb collisions at the LHC
The ALICE muon spectrometer studies the production of quarkonia and open
heavy- flavour particles. It is equipped with a Trigger System composed of
Resistive Plate Chambers which, by applying a transverse-momentum-based muon
selection, minimises the background from light-hadron decays. The system has
been continuously taking data throughout the LHC Run I; it has undergone
maintenance and consolidation operations during the LHC shutdown period 1. In
the first year of the LHC Run II, the system, fully recommissioned, has
participated in data taking in pp and Pb/en-dashPb collisions. The performance
of the system throughout the last data-taking period is presented.Comment: RPC 2016 Conference proceedin
Study of quarkonium production in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions with ALICE at the LHC
ALICE is devoted to the study of a deconfined state of nuclear matter called Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). The bottomonium (bound states of beauty-anti beauty quark) production is affected by the presence of the QGP, since bottomonium states are produced sooner than the QGP and witness the whole evolution of the plasma. In this analysis the data coming from Pb-Pb collisions at âsNN = 5 TeV have been analyzed in order to detect possible modifications of the production rates, with respect to the rates observed in proton proton collisions. Furthermore, the performances of the detectors involved in the muon identification during the LHC RUN1 and RUN2 has been tested using a new analysis framework implemented as part of this thesis. Finally, in order to optimize the results of future analyses, a new muon identification algorithm has been developed and tested. This algorithm will become necessary in the LHC RUN3 running conditions, when the much higher luminosity will require a quasi-online reconstruction of data
production in p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC
International audienceALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is devoted to the study of heavy-ion collisions at LHC energies. In such collisions a deconfined state of nuclear matter, the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), is formed. Due to their early production, quarkonium states are good probes to study the QGP evolution. Such states are affected by suppression mechanisms which lead to reduced yields with respect to pp and p-Pb collisions, while regeneration phenomena might lead to an enhancement of their production. The latter effects are expected to be negligible at LHC for bottomonium states. The recent ALICE results on Ï production in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=5.02Â TeV will be presented and compared with previous measurements at sNN=2.76Â TeV . A comparison with theoretical calculations will be performed as well. Results obtained in p-Pb collisions at sNN=5.02Â TeV will also be discussed
Study of quarkonium production in p-A and AA collisions with ALICE at the LHC
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Delivering a machine learning course on HPC resources
In recent years, proficiency in data science and machine learning (ML) became one of the most requested skills for jobs in both industry and academy. Machine learning algorithms typically require large sets of data to train the models and extensive usage of computing resources, both for training and inference. Especially for deep learning algorithms, training performances can be dramatically improved by exploiting Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). The needed skill set for a data scientist is therefore extremely broad, and ranges from knowledge of ML models to distributed programming on heterogeneous resources. While most of the available training resources focus on ML algorithms and tools such as TensorFlow, we designed a course for doctoral students where model training is tightly coupled with underlying technologies that can be used to dynamically provision resources. Throughout the course, students have access to a dedicated cluster of computing nodes on local premises. A set of libraries and helper functions is provided to execute a parallelized ML task by automatically deploying a Spark driver and several Spark execution nodes as Docker containers. Task scheduling is managed by an orchestration layer (Kubernetes). This solution automates the delivery of the software stack required by a typical ML workflow and enables scalability by allowing the execution of ML tasks, including training, over commodity (i.e. CPUs) or high-performance (i.e. GPUs) resources distributed over different hosts across a network. The adaptation of the same model on OCCAM, the HPC facility at the University of Turin, is currently under development
Experience with Rucio in the wider HEP community
Managing the data of scientific projects is an increasingly complicated challenge, which was historically met by developing experiment-specific solutions. However, the ever-growing data rates and requirements of even small experiments make this approach very difficult, if not prohibitive. In recent years, the scientific data management system Rucio has evolved into a successful open-source project that is now being used by many scientific communities and organisations. Rucio is incorporating the contributions and expertise of many scientific projects and is offering common features useful to a diverse research community. This article describes the recent experiences in operating Rucio, as well as contributions to the project, by ATLAS, Belle II, CMS, ESCAPE, IGWN, LDMX, Folding@Home, and the UKâs Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Global polarization of Î and Î hyperons in Pb-Pb collisions at â s N N = 2.76 and 5.02 TeV
The global polarization of Î and Î hyperons is measured for Pb-Pb collisions at âsNN = 2.76 and 5.02 TeV recorded with the ALICE at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The results are reported differentially as a function of collision centrality and hyperonâs transverse momentum (pT ) for the range of centrality 5â50%, 0.5 < pT < 5 GeV/c, and rapidity |y| < 0.5. The hyperon global polarization averaged for Pb-Pb collisions at âsNN = 2.76 and 5.02 TeV is found to be consistent with zero, âšPHâ©(%)â0.01±0.06(stat.)±0.03(syst.)
in the collision centrality range 15â50%, where the largest signal is expected. The results are compatible with
expectations based on an extrapolation from measurements at lower collision energies at the Relativistic Heavy
Ion Collider, hydrodynamical model calculations, and empirical estimates based on collision energy dependence
of directed flow, all of which predict the global polarization values at LHC energies of the order of 0.01%
Measurement of electrons from semileptonic heavy-flavour hadron decays at midrapidity in pp and PbâPb collisions at âsNN = 5.02 TeV
The differential invariant yield as a function of transverse momentum (pT) of electrons from semileptonic heavy-flavour hadron decays was measured at midrapidity in central (0â10%), semi-central (30â50%) and peripheral (60â80%) leadâlead (PbâPb) collisions at âsNN = 5.02 TeV in the pT intervals 0.5â26 GeV/c (0â10% and 30â50%) and 0.5â10 GeV/c (60â80%). The production cross section in protonâproton (pp) collisions at âs = 5.02 TeV was measured as well in 0.5 < pT < 10 GeV/c and it lies close to the upper band of perturbative QCD calculation uncertainties up to pT = 5 GeV/c and close to the mean value for larger pT. The modification of the electron yield with respect to what is expected for an incoherent superposition of nucleonânucleon collisions is evaluated by measuring the nuclear modification factor RAA. The measurement of the RAA in different centrality classes allows in-medium energy loss of charm and beauty quarks to be investigated. The RAA shows a suppression with respect to unity at intermediate pT, which increases while moving towards more central collisions. Moreover, the measured RAA is sensitive to the modification of the parton distribution functions (PDF) in nuclei, like nuclear shadowing, which causes a suppression of the heavy-quark production at low pT in heavy-ion collisions at LHC
Erratum to: Production of Ï0 and η mesons up to high transverse momentum in pp collisions at 2.76 TeV
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