Mesut Arslandok

I have been involved in the ALICE experiment at CERN since 2010. My research covers many aspects of experimental heavy-ion physics such as detector physics and operation, software development, simulations and physics analysis.

I have been serving as the convener of the physics analysis group on even-by-event fluctuations since 2019, and carrying out several physics analyses on this field such as conserved charge, net-proton and particle ratio fluctuations. These analyses are expected to shed light on the understanding of an extreme phase of matter - called the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) - created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. This primordial state of matter is thought to have existed for the first few millionths of a second after the Big Bang. The QGP created in these collisions undergoes a transition to the hadronic phase, after it expands and cools down. Event-by-event fluctuations are very sensitive to this phase transition, therefore it also plays a significant role within the energy scan programs of the CERN SPS and RHIC.

Moreover, as a member of the TPC (Time Projection Chamber) detector group, I have been taking part in the operation of the TPC and working on the calibration and optimization of the TPC particle identification (PID) performance in both MWPC (Multi-Wire Proportional Chambers) and GEM (Gas Electron Multiplier) based technologies. Furthermore, I am actively involved in the next-generation multi-purpose detector project at the LHC which is a follow-up to the present ALICE experiment (arXiv:1902.01211 [physics.ins-det]).