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No.301,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
The 1st edition of the 'ALICE 3' Days took place this week (25-27 Mar 2024) at CERN:
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NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Balancing matter and antimatter in Pb–Pb collisions: CERN Courier Energy Frontier March - April 2024
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- News from the March CERN Council Session
- Brazil becomes Associate Member State of CERN
- Submission of input for the next update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (from Eliezer Rabinovici, President of CERN Council): On 21 March 2024, the CERN Council decided to launch the process for updating the European Strategy for Particle Physics. The deadline for submitting written input has been set for 31 March 2025, with a view to concluding the European Strategy update process in June 2026. The process will be managed by the Strategy Secretariat, which the Council will establish in June 2024, and more information, together with the call for input, will be issued by the Secretariat in due course.
- ALICE Run 3 Analysis Resources: Our Junior colleagues have developed this new website which has a collection of all resources and news that can be helpful for people engaged in the analysis of ALICE Run 3 data. This is especially beneficial for those who are new to the Run 3 data analysis.
- CERN70 Event: The Virtuous Circle of Knowledge and Innovation, 18 April 19:30 hrs
- CERN70 Feature Series:
- CERN LHCC and Research Board approve FoCal and ITS 3 projects:
- Technical Design Report of the ALICE Forward Calorimeter (FoCal)
- Technical Design report for the ALICE Inner Tracking System 3 - ITS3 ; A bent wafer-scale monolithic pixel detector
- Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan 2024 Town Meeting, Bucharest, 15-17 April, 2024:
The aim is to bring together the Nuclear Physics community in Europe to discuss the long-range perspectives in our field and decide how best to develop it in the next ten to fifteen years.
- Next Physics Forum Dates for 2024
- 10 April (during mini-week)
- 15 May (during SQM+LHCP approvals)
- 19 June (during mini-week)
- 21 August (during Hard Probes previews)
- 2 October (extra-ordinary)
- 6 November (mini-week)
- 4 December (during physics week)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- QCD Seminars, Monday 8 Apr 2024, 14:00
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 2 Apr 2024, 15:00: "Fuzzy Sphere regularization of 3D CFTs" by Yin-Chen He
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 3 Apr 2024, 14:00, 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN): "Jetography via the Quark-Gluon Plasma" by Liliana Apolinario (LIP (PT))
- CERN Computing Seminar, Thursday 4 Apr 2024, 11:00: "Evolving your APIs, a pragmatic approach" by Nicolas Frankel (API7.ai)
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
| Title | Internal | Submission date |
| 26 Feb 2024 |
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New ALICE paper submissions appear in twitter: ALICE_Publications
PAPERS IN THE COLLABORATION REVIEW
Papers currently open for comments can be inspected using the link: Paper in Collaboration Review (Open for Comments).
NEWS FROM POINT 2
- Extension of the 2024 proton-proton run by 4 weeks:
The CERN directorate has recently approved an extension of the 2024 proton proton run by 4 weeks, with a corresponding shortening of the 2025 proton-proton run by 4 weeks as well. The overall beam allocation for 2024+2025 will remain the same for both proton-proton and heavy-ions collisions. As a consequence of the extension, the 2024 heavy-ion run will be shifted by 4 weeks. The number of heavy-ions days will remain unchanged with respect to the original schedule.- Heavy-ion run: 26 October to 25 November
- The start of the 2024/2025 LHC EYETS: 25 November 2024
- The new shift schedule, with the additional proton-proton shift blocks as well as the shifted heavy-ion period, will be opened to the whole collaboration on Wednesday 17 April at 13:00 CET.
- Shift booking opportunities:
- DSC blocks from April 21 to April 30
- QC block from May 5 to May 10
- ECS block from May 9 to May 14
- SL block from May 31 to June 5
Shifts booking via SAMS.
- ALICE Run Manager (1-14 April 2024): Maciej Marek CZARNYNOGA:
Maciej is an engineer from WUT in Poland. He is a junior member of the collaboration. Maciej joined the ALICE collaboration in August of 2022 to work on the FIT detector for which he developed the DCS system and is an expert in the FIT detector technical maintenance. Since he joined the FIT project, Maciej is not only involved in operations with FIT On-calls, he quickly committed to the central DCS shift and Shift Leader shift and developed a solid experience of central operations during the past two years.
In the very first hours of his mandate, Maciej will coordinate the data-taking with collisions at 450 GeV. He will then supervise the upgrade and validation of the control systems software with SYNTHETIC and REPLAY runs, and the orchestration of the ALICE operations together with the ongoing LHC commissioning. During the second week of his mandate, he will likely have the challenging task of supervising the first collisions at 6.8 TeV and the beginning of the LHC intensity ramp-up. During this phase, Maciej will coordinate the data taking of several special runs, for detector calibration and alignment.
- LHC commissioning: The LHC commissioning is progressing as planned. First stable beams at 450 GeV were provided on 21 March, and an additional fill is expected on 1 April. Meanwhile the machine is advancing toward the first collisions in stable beams at 6.8 TeV. The intensity ramp-up at top energy is scheduled to start between Saturday 6 April and Monday 8 April.
- P2 operations: on 21 March, ALICE successfully collected the first collisions at 450 GeV. The experiment performed very well, confirming its readiness for the physics data taking of this year. During the rest of the LHC commissioning activities the experiment remains in a safe state, and the central acquisition is constantly monitored by replaying MonteCarlo-generated data as well as real data from 2023. Upgrades of the central systems and of the online processing software are performed on a weekly basis, to finalise the ongoing consolidation work. We are looking forward the first collisions at top energy in about one week!
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 58th Recontre de Moriond 2024, QCD & High Energy Interactions, La Thuile, Italy, 31 March - 7 April
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Joint Meeting of APS Division of Particles & Fields and the Phenomenology Symposium (DPF-Pheno 2024), 13-17 May, abstract deadline 1 April
- 15th International Conference on Beauty, Charm, Hyperons in Hadronic Interactions (BEACH 2024), Charleston, USA, 3-7 June, abstract deadline 16 April, possibility of plenary talks and poster presentations (contact conveners)
- 14th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons (NSTAR2024), York, UK, 17-21 June, abstract deadline 12 April
- Present and future perspective in hadron physics (STRONG2020), Frascati, Italy, 17-21 June, abstract deadline 15 April
- QCD at Work 2024, Trani, Italy, 18-21 June, abstract deadline 1 April, possibility for contributed talks & posters: Contact cc chairs and conveners
- 22nd International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2024), Puerto Vallarta Mexico, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 1 April.
- EXA/LEAP 2024* International Conference on Exotic Atoms and Related Topics and Conference on Low Energy Antiprotons, Vienna, Austria, 26-30 August, abstract deadline 14 April.
- XVII international Conference on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors (RPC2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 9-13 Sep 2024, abstract deadline 1 June.
- TWEPP 2024 Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 30 Sep to 4 Oct 2024, abstract deadline 30 April
- 8th International Conference on Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors, MPGD2024, Hefei, China, 14-18 Oct, abstract deadline 24 June.
SCHOOLS
- The Inverted CERN School of Computing, CERN, 15–18 Apr 2024, registration deadline: 12 April
- INFN School of Statistics, Paestum, Italy, 12 May, registration deadline 30 March
- Summer School "From Hadronic Structure to Heavy-Ion Collisions", Orsay, France, 9-15 June, registration deadline 30 April
- MCnet Summer School, 10–14 Jun 2024, CERN, registration deadline: 15 April
- III Joint ICTP-SAIFR/ICTP-Trieste Summer School on Particle Physics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 24 June, registration deadline 20 April
- 2024 CTEQ Summer School on QCD and Electroweak Phenomenology, Munster, Germany, 21-31 August, registration deadline 30 April
- 2024 European School of High-Energy Physics (ESHEP2024), Peebles, UK, 25 September - 8 October, registration deadline 26 April
- 52nd SLAC Summer Institute (SSI2024), SLAC, USA, 5-16 August-2024
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Special announcement and dates of major conferences in 2024:
We would like to congratulate the selected speakers for the two plenary talks at SQM 2024: Mesut Arslandok for “Recent results on light flavour and correlations from ALICE”, and Fiorella Fionda for “Recent results on heavy flavour and quarkonia from ALICE"
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Florian, Luca):
- LHC Job Matching Event (JMEv), 14 May 2024: Organized by the LHC Early Career Scientist Fora (LHC ECSF), the event aims to bring early career researchers and recruiters together to discuss open academic job positions on a LHC experiment. Furthermore, the event will include motivational talks from two academic and one non-academic speakers. The event registration for recruiters is open. For job seekers, the registrations will be opened in mid-April.
- If you are an early career researcher, looking for a position in HEP at a LHC experiment, you can register from mid-April using the Job Seeker's Registration Form.
- If you are a senior member of an LHC experiment, offering a position, and looking for candidates, you can register now using the Recruiters' Registration Form.
- ALICE Run 3 Analysis Resources: this new website which has a collection of all resources and news that can be helpful for people engaged in the analysis of ALICE Run 3 data. This is especially beneficial for those who are new to the Run 3 data analysis.
- ALICE Theses website
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis.
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE Visits this week:
- Saturday 23 March 2024
- Hayes School, UK
- Monday 25 March 2024
- ALICE member’s friends, Netherlands
- Wednesday 27 March 2024
- High School of Kallipoli, Greece
- Indian Parliamentarians to the UN
- Thursday 28 March 2024
- 1st General Lyceum of Katerini, Greece
- Salesianos de Manique Escola, Portugal
- Friday 29 March 2024
- Professional visitors, UK
- Saturday 23 March 2024
- ALICE virtual visits this week:
- Saturday 23 March 2024
- virtual visit to ALICE for online Particle Therapy masterclasses in Greece
- Monday 25 March 2024
- virtual visit to ALICE for European School Brussels III
- Saturday 23 March 2024
- International Masterclasses 2024:
- Monday 25 March 2024
- ALICE masterclasses were held in Padova, Orsay, Maynooth, Puebla, and for the European School Brussels III online
- Monday 25 March 2024
- The ALICE Collaboration at CERN is now on LinkedIn! Come and join us. The page will be dedicated to news from physics, experiment, people, as well as to the ALICE Alumni community!
DIVERSITY
- ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here. Your feedback is extremely important. You can send us an email that will be treated confidentially by using the email address: alice-diversity-office@cern.ch or send us an anonymous message by using this form.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Please refer to Job Announcements link for details.
Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!