Dr Eng. Marcin Patecki from the Faculty of Physics of the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) received the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship grant.

He will implement the project The ALICE fixed-target program layout using bent crystals at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The aim of the project is to expand the research potential of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

The research will last two years and will be conducted by Dr Eng. Daniela Kikoła of the Department of Nuclear Physics of the Faculty of Physics of the Warsaw University of Technology.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN studies the smallest components of matter using accelerators, including the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In the LHC, beams of protons or lead nuclei are accelerated to enormous energies and collided head-on inside detectors (including ALICE) in order to observe forming the new particles and the interactions between them.