Conveners
Parallel 24: future facilities
- Yasuyuki Akiba
The ALICE Collaboration has proposed a completely new apparatus, ALICE 3, for the LHC Runs 5 and 6 (LoI, arXiv:2211.02491). The detector consists of a large pixel-based tracking system covering eight units of pseudorapidity, complemented by multiple systems for particle identification, including silicon time-of-flight layers, a ring-imaging Cherenkov detector, a muon identification system, and...
During LHC LS3 (2026-28) ALICE is replacing its innermost three tracking layers by a new detector, "ITS3". It will be based on newly developed wafer-scale monolithic active pixel sensors, which are bent into truly cylindrical layers and held in place by light mechanics made from carbon foam. Unprecedented low values of material budget (0.07% per layer) and closeness to interaction point (19...
The FoCal is a high-granularity forward calorimeter to be installed as an ALICE upgrade during the LHC Long Shutdown 3 and take data in Run 4.
It will cover a pseudorapidity interval of $3.2 < \eta < 5.8$, allowing to explore QCD at unprecedented low Bjorken-$x$ of down to $\approx 10^{-6}$ -- a regime where non-linear QCD dynamics are expected to be sizable.
The FoCal consists of a compact...
