Summary:
Quantum Chromo-Dynamics (QCD) of the strong interaction predicted a new state of matter of quarks and gluons at high energy density or at high baryo-chemical potential, where those elementary particles are released from usual confinement in hadrons. This state of QCD matter, called Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), has been reproduced and discovered via high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. Leptons and photons have been recognized as the most promising probes to investigate the QGP properties without disturbed by final state strong interaction. Forward muons at LHC are especially powerful since the physics region of interest and the technical region of covered kinematics overlap at the highest ever collision energy. We will build, install, and commission Muon Forward Tracker (MFT) with a strong collaboration between France and Japan at the ALICE experiment. It expands the physics reach of the ALICE muon spectrometer to J/psi, psi(2S), Upsilons and open beauty hadrons down to very low transverse momenta, opening unique programs at LHC.

French members:
G. Batigne, G. Martinez, S. Panebianco, R. Tieulent

Japanese members:
K. Shigaki, H. Hamagaki, K. Oyama, M. Shimomura, Y. Yamaguchi

References:
[1] Technical Design Report for the Muon Forward Tracker, https://cds.cern.ch/record/1981898
[2] Addendum of the Letter of Intent for the upgrade of the ALICE experiment : The Muon Forward Tracker,
https://cds.cern.ch/record/1592659
[3] J/psi suppression at forward rapidity in Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV , ALICE Collaboration (B. Abelev et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 (2012) 072301, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.072301
[4] Production of muons from heavy flavour decays at forward rapidity in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 2.76 TeV, ALICE Collaboration (B. Abelev et al.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 (2012) 112301, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.112301
[5] Light vector meson production in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, ALICE Collaboration (B. Abelev et al.), Phys. Lett. B710 (2012) 557-568, DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2012.03.038

website:
ALICE : http://alice-collaboration.web.cern.ch/

Summary:

French members:
M. Nahrgang, M. Bluhm, G. Pihan, N. Touroux

Japanese members:
M. Kitazawa, H. Ito, T. Nishimura

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French members :
R. Guernane, G. Conesa Balbastre, J. Faivre, C. Furget, J. Norman, Y. Schutz, I. Belikov, A. Maire, F. Rami, B. Hippolyte, C. Kuhn

Japanese members :
T. Chujo, Y. Miake, M. Inaba, T. Sugitate, M. Shimomura, H. Sako, H. Hamagaki, T. Gunji, N. Novitzky, S. Sakai, T. Hashiya

References:

website:
http://aliweb.cern.ch