Claude Pruneau

Member of the Alice Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider @CERN

Geneva, CH

The ALICE Collaboration has built a dedicated detector to exploit the unique physics potential of nucleus-nucleus collisions at LHC energies. Its aim is to study the physics of strongly interacting matter at the highest energy densities reached so far in the laboratory. In such condition, an extreme phase of matter - called the quark-gluon plasma, is formed. Our universe is thought to have been in such a primordial state for the first few millionths of a second after the Big Bang. The properties of such a phase are key issues for Quantum Chromo Dynamics, the understanding of confinement-deconfinement and chiral phase transitions. For this purpose, the ALICE collaboration is carrying out a comprehensive study of the hadrons, electrons, muons and photons produced in the collisions of heavy nuclei. ALICE is also studying proton-proton and proton-nucleus collisions both as a comparison with nucleus-nucleus collisions and in their own right. As a member of the ALICE collaboration, I contribute analyses of correlation functions pertaining to the dynamics of the particle production and the properties of the matter produced in heavy-ion collisions. I also work on several scientific paper internal review committees.