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Panel 13 – PHYSICS / MATHEMATICS
stupendous amount of data. It should also be mentioned that there has
also been a large managerial contribution.
In ALICE an even smaller group has been similarly successful, with a
high profile in the organisation and running of the experiment as well as
in the design and provision of hardware.
A general point should be made here since these collaborations are run on
very democratic lines, having high profile roles in an experiment, such as
deputy spokesperson, chair of the publications board etc., as members of
the Lund group have, clearly indicates the stature and respect that these
physicists have among their peers, who elect them.
Apart from the main experimental areas described above, the group
is involved in developing GRID middleware, again very successfully
judging by the uptake by NORDUGRID and others and also in R&D
for detectors for the future international linear electron-positron collider.
2.3.2 Grading of the recent past and present programme of the Division
of Experimental High Energy Physics (In Department of Physics)
The criteria used are quality, productivity, relevance and vitality and
organisational capacity.
There is no doubt that the “quality”, “productivity” and “vitality” of the
research carried out in Experimental High Energy Physics is outstanding.
The question of “relevance” when interpreted as relevant in this area of
science, ie scientific, technical and cultural rather than clinical, social and
socioeconomic, would also merit on outstanding
2.3.3 Plans for the future
The future plans of the group concentrate on the LHC programme, both
in analysing the data and presumably in upgrading the detectors and for
the more distant future the ILC. This is a very sensible programme and
should keep the group in the forefront of the field for the next 5-10 years,
however they have a very real problem in the fact that two of their senior
researchers will be leaving/retiring very soon, including one who has
spearheaded the b-physics analysis preparation in ATLAS, and another
one within the next two years. This is a large fraction of the senior
members of group. As the group itself points out, it is crucial that these
positions get filled immediately, with first rate researchers.
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