JAPAN WITHIN THE ALICECOLLABORATIONALICE | Title of the Meeting | Date | SpeakerTHE ALICE COLLABORATION
37 COUNTRIES – 157 INSTITUTES – 162’456 KCHF CAPITAL COST

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2THE ALICE COLLABORATION
History of the ALICE Experiment:

MORE THAN 1500 MEMBERS

1990-1996 Design
Turkey1992-2002 R&D

Czech Republic

Denmark

Thailand

2000-2010 Construction

Finland

South Korea

UnitedStates

South Africa

2002-2007 Installation
2008 ->

UkraineFranceCommissioning
Russia4 TP addenda along the way:
1996 Muon spectrometer
1999 TRD
2006! EMCAL
2007! DCALPeruMexico

GreeceJapan

HungaryIndonesia

2012! LoI for the Upgrade2012-2014 R&DIndia
Cuba

2018-2019 Installation, commissioning
2019-2020 Full deployment of DAQ/HLT

Source: Alice Collaboration data base, Sept. 1st 2014

Egypt

Italy

Croatia

2014-2016 Procurement/Fabrication
2016-2017 Integration, pre-commissioning

Germany

Pakistan

China
Chile

Switzerland

BrazilArmenia

United Kingdom

Netherlands
SwedenSpain

PolandSlovakia

NorwayRomania

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PARTICIPATING INSTITUTES (1992-2015)
Number of participating institutes in ALICE
TotalFull Members

Associate Members

1601401201008060402001992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

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4JAPAN COLLABORATORS
41 PEOPLE COMING FROM 5 INSTITUTES
Source: ALICE Collaboration data base Jan. 1st 2015

Full members since October 2006!! Hiroshima University!! University of Tokyo (CNS)!! University of Tsukuba

Collaborators by status

Otherstatus
12%

Full member since October 2014!! Nagasaki Institute of Applied Sciences
Associate member since September 2003!! The Institute of Physical and Chemical
Research (RIKEN), Wako-shi

Scientists
27%

Otherstudents
32%
PhD
students
29%

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5JAPAN REPRESENTATIVES
Toru SUGITATE"! Hiroshima University Team Leader"! PHOS Deputy Project Leader"! Member of the Financial Board andCollaboration Board"! Member of the National Computing Board"! Member of the Conference Committee"! Link person ALICE – Japan

Kenta SHIGAKI"! MFT detector control system responsible
Hideki HAMAGAKI"! University of Tokyo Team Leader"! Deputy Chair of the Collaboration Board"! Member of the Management Board"! Member of the Editorial Board
Taku GUNJI"! Low mass di-electron Physics Analysis
Coordinator

Yasuo MIAKE"! University of Tsukuba Team Leader"! Member of the Collaboration Board
Tatsuya CHUJO"! EMCal/ DCal Deputy Project Leader
Oliver BUSCH"! Jet Physics Working Group Convenor
Ken OYAMA"! Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science TeamLeader"! Member of the Collaboration Board
Hideto ENYO (associate member)"! RIKEN Team Leader"! Member of the Collaboration Board
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JAPAN FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION (1/3)
FUNDING AGENCY: JAPANESE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, CULTURE, SPORTS,SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MEXT)

Contribution to the Construction in kCHF
Total: 1'527 kCHF (CERN-RRB-2015-034)
10009008007006005004003002001000

Di-Jet Calorimeter

Photon Spectrometer

Commun Fund, Commissioning& Integration, Entry Fee

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JAPAN FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION (2/3)
FUNDING AGENCY: JAPANESE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, CULTURE, SPORTS,SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MEXT)

Contribution to the 2015 Maintenance & Operation budgets (CERN-RRB-2014-103-1)
Category A: 113.6 kCHF for 10 scientists
Category B: 10.0 kCHF to the PHOS and EMCal/DCal

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8JAPAN FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION (3/3)
FUNDING AGENCY: JAPANESE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, CULTURE, SPORTS,SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (MEXT)

Contribution to the Common Fund forUpgrade (ALICE-RRB-2013-125) :78.6 kCHF for 9 Scientists
The Addendum No. 35 to theMemorandum of Understanding for
Collaboration in the Construction ofthe ALICE Detector: Common
Infrastructure for the Upgrade of theALICE detector has been signed onJanuary 6th 2014 by the University ofHiroshima and the University ofTokyo.
•! (Do you have a MoU for Univ. ofTsukuba?)
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Sub detectors:
Photon Spectrometer (PHOS)
Transition Radiation Detector (TRD)
Electromagnetic and Di-Jet Calorimeter (EMCal/ DCal)
Time Projection Chamber (TPC)
GEM Time Projection Chamber (GEM-TPC, upgrade)
Muon Forward Tracker (MFT, upgrade)
Forward Calorimeter (FoCal, upgrade under consideration)

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ALICE ACTIVITIES AT FULL MEMBERS INSTITUTES
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Hiroshima University!!
!!
!!
!!
!!

Photon Spectrometer detector (PHOS)
Photon and neutral meson measurements
Thermal dynamics and quark behavior
ALICE Tire-2 Center in Japan
Muon Forward Tracker (MFT) – upgrade

University of TokyoCNS!!
!!
!!

Time Projection Chamber (TPC, RCU2, operation)
GEM-Time Projection Chamber (GEM-TPC) – upgradeElectro-Magnetic probe, Heavy Flavors, Soft Physics!! Low mass di-electron Physics Analysis Coordinator: Taku Gunji

University of Tsukuba
!!
!!
!!
!!

Electromagnetic Calorimeter (EMCAL) and Di-jet Calorimeter (DCAL)
Jet and soft physics, forward physics!! Jet Physics Working Group Convenor: Oliver Busch
Forward Calorimeter (FOCAL) – upgrade under consideration
ALICE Tire-2 Center in Japan (under preparation)

Nagasaki Institute of Applied Sciences!!

TPC Common Readout Unit (CRU) R&D

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GRANTS IN JAPAN ON ALICE (Listed only grants dedicated to ALICE)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific ResearchYears (JFY)k yen

Principal

Scientific Research (B)2015 – 2018

16,640Kenta Shigaki

Scientific Research (S)2014 – 2018

141,200

Toru Sugitate

Scientific Research (B)2013 – 2016

15,200

Yasuo Miake

Scientific Research (B)2013 – 2015

19,980

Tatsuya Chujo

Scientific Research (A)2011 – 2013

47,970Toru Sugitate

Scientific Research (B)2011 – 2014

19,370Kenta Shigaki

Scientific Research (A)2010 – 2012

47,580Hideki Hamagaki

Scientific Research (S)2008 – 2012

85,020

Yasuo Miake

Young Scientists (B)2008 – 2009

4,420

Taku Gunji

Research Activity Start-up

2007

1,350

Taku Gunji

Specially Promoted Research

2006 – 2010

403,910Toru Sugitate

JSPS Fellows

2006 – 2008

3,400

Hisa Torii

Scientific Research (B)2003 – 2005

16,300Toru Sugitate

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GRANTS IN JAPAN ON ALICE (Listed only grants dedicated to ALICE)

Other Grants

Years (JFY)k yen

Principal

Bilateral Research (JSPS-BFBR, Russia)

2015 – 2016

2,250 per Year

Toru Sugitate

Bilateral Research (JSPS-CNRS, France)

2013 – 2016

2,250 per Year

Tatsuya Chujo

French Japan Particle Physics Laboratory(FJPPL, TYL)

2010 –present

300 per Year

Yasuo Miake (2010-2013)
Tatsuya Chujo (2014-2015)

Strategic Young Researcher
Overseas Visits Program for Accelerating
Brain Circulation2010 – 2015

70,000 (2010-2012, total)
80,000 (2013-2015, total)

Hideki Hamagaki (2010 – 2012)
Kenta Shigaki (2013 – 2015)

Graduate School Program for History ofUniverse

2007 – 2016

~ 15,000 per Year(2007-2013)
10,000 (2014-2016, total)

Yasuo Miake13ALICE GRID8 in North America
4 operational
4 future + 1 retired

2 in South America
1 operational
1 future

53 in Europe
10 in Asia
8 operational
2 future

2 in Africa
1 operational
1 future

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ALICE TIER-2 CENTER IN JAPAN
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Hiroshima T2 site#! The ALICE T2 site “JP-HIROSHIMA-WLCG” with grid
middleware EMI-3 on SL6.5... as stable as possible.
#! GRID service; APEL, sBDII, CREAM-CE, XROOTD, DPM-SE,
VOBOX… as compact as possible.
#! WN resources; 1356 Xeon-cores in total
Xeon5355(4c@2.6GHz) x 2cpu x 16 boxes
Xeon5365(4c@3.0GHz) x 2cpu x 20 blades
Xeon5570(4c@2.9GHz) x 2cpu x 26 blades
Xeon5670(6c@2.9GHz) x 2cpu x 3 blades
Xeon5660(6c@2.8GHz) x 2cpu x 42 blades
E5-2470v2(10c@2.4GHz) x 2cpu x 16 blades#! Storage; 1,056TB disks on 9 servers, but no MS#! Around 3/4 resource deployed to ALICE GRID, and therest for a local cluster#! Network B/W: 1Gbps on 40Gbps-SINET4 in Japan#! WLCG support by ASGC in Taiwan#! Responsible by Prof. Toru Sugitate#! Operated by TS and K.Tarunaga (M2) under remotetechnical support by SOUM corp., Tokyo.

Tsukuba T2 site(under preparation)

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CONTRIBUTION TO ALICE PRODUCTION

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ALICE JAPAN IN PUBLICPUBLICALICE-J web page http://alice-j.org
maintained by Tatsuya Chujo, ALICE outreach contact in Japan.
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THE LS2 ALICE UPGRADES

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