Participating countries and international organizations:
Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, CERN, China, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA.

Issues addressed and main goals of research:

1. Participation in the preparation of ALICE upgrade (Photon spectrometer PHOS, assembly of the setup).
   
   
2. Participation in the upgrade of ALICE Inner Tracking System (ITS).
   
   
3. Realization of experiments at the LHC, data analysis, preparation of publications.
   
   
4. Physics research program at the ALICE detector.
   
   
5. Development and upgrade of data analysis computing GRID-ALICE in Russia.
   
   
6. Participation in the maintenance and operation tasks on the ALICE detector.

Expected results in the current year:

1. Participation in the construction of the full scale prototype of the signal registration system and in the preparation of the proposal for the upgrade of photon spectrometer PHOS.
   
   
2. Participation in the development of the ALICE ITS data control system.
   
   
3. Participation in the physics project preparation.
   
   
4. Physics simulation of heavy ions and protons interactions at LHC energies.
   
   
5. Data analysis. Preparation of publications.
   
   
6. Upgrade, testing and supporting of GRID.
   
   
7. Participation in the maintenance and operation tasks on the ALICE detector.

Collaboration