CERN Summer Student report

This summer I was part of the Summer Student Programme in CERN. I had a chance to be selected to join CERN for 8 weeks and during this time I took part of the project ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment), which is a heavy-ion detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ring. This project is one of the largest experiments in CERN, dedicated to study the physics of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities. The goal of the experiment is to recreate and study the quark-gluon plasma, which is believed to be the state of the Universe up to a few milliseconds after the Big Bang. For that, the ALICE collaboration uses the 10,000-tonne ALICE detector - 26 m long, 16 m high, and 16 m wide.The detector sits in a vast cavern 56 m below ground close to the village of St Genis-Pouilly in France, receiving beams from the LHC. In this report, I present the software, used for the development of my project and then the project itself.