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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
ALICE gets the green light for new subdetectors: ITS 3 and FoCal Coverage in home.cern news and ALICE website |
- ALICE Software and Computing Days, 6-8 May 2024 (160/1-009 (CERN))
- ALICE Mini Week: 17-21 June 2024
- ALICE 3 Days: 24-26 June 2024
- ALICE Week: 8-12 July 2024
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Conference Committee Membership: If you are interested to join the Conference Committee for a mandate from December 2024 to November 2026, with a PWG-CF expertise, contact CC chairs before 1 June 2024.
- Balancing matter and antimatter in Pb–Pb collisions: CERN Courier Energy Frontier March - April 2024
- 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 Feature Series:
- CERN LHCC and Research Board approve FoCal and ITS 3 projects:
- Next Physics Forum Dates for 2024
- 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
- Detector Seminar, Friday 3 May 2024, 11:00: "The CMS detector for LHC Run 3" by Alexey Shevelev (University of Maryland (US)), Dinyar Rabady (CERN), Grace Haza (University of Nebraska Lincoln (US))
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 7 May 2024, 14:00: "S-folds and their conformal manifolds" by Fridrik Gautason
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 7 May 2024, 16:00: "Weak-interaction studies with nuclear beta decay" by Bertram Blank
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 8 May 2024, 11:30: "A nonperturbative test of nucleation calculations for strong phase transitions" by Anna Kormu
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 8 May 2024, 14:00: "New era in dark matter searches the dawn of the (nuclear) clocks" by Gilad Perez (Weizmann)
- QCD Seminars, Monday 13 May 2024, 14:00 "NNLO Matching in VINCIA" by Prof. Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
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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
- Shift booking opportunities:
- SL blocks (2 blocks): (1) 2-7 June and (2) 26 June to 1 July
- ECS block (2 blocks): (1) 31 May to 5 June and (2) 31 Aug to 5 Sep
Shifts booking via SAMS
- The new shift schedule, with the additional proton-proton shift blocks as well as the shifted heavy-ion period, is open for booking to the whole collaboration.
- ALICE Run Manager (29 April - 12 May 2024): Daiki Sekihata
Daiki Sekihata is a postdoc from the University of Tokyo and a specialist in electromagnetic probes. In 2015 he was deputy System Run Coordinator of the PHOS detector when ALICE took the first Pb-Pb data at 5.02 TeV in Run2. During Long Shutdown 2, he was involved in the upgrade of the TPC, in particular in the installation and pre-commissioning of the GEM detectors in the clean room at Point 2. He also took two Run Manager mandates in Run 3, one in 2022 and one in 2023. Daiki is actively involved in physics data analysis. He was the coordinator of the low-mass di-electron PAG from July 2020 to February 2023 and is currently PWG-EM convener since October 2023.
During his mandate, Daiki will supervise the production of proton-proton physics at 500 kHz, and will coordinate the software upgrades according to the LHC schedule.
- LHC and P2 news:
- LHC intensity rampup:
The LHC is regularly providing stable beams with 2352 colliding bunches, for proton-proton physics production. During the past weekend the machine efficiency in stable beams was almost 60%, but operations were interrupted by a quench in sector 78 and took several hours to be recovered. During the week, in addition to the physics production, the machine completed the set-up of the Van Der Meer measurements. - P2 operations:
ALICE continues to collect data for proton-proton physics production at 500 kHz. On Tuesday we performed the regular software upgrade and validation, taking advantage of an urgent access for ATLAS. The data-taking efficiency during this first phase of physics production is above 90%, with all detectors regularly taking part to the physics runs.
- LHC intensity rampup:
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- INFN School of Statistics, Paestum (Salerno), Italy, 12-18 May
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 15th International Conference on Beauty, Charm, Hyperons in Hadronic Interactions (BEACH 2024), Charleston, USA, 3-7June, abstract deadline 31 May
- QCD@Work 2024, Trani, Italy, 18-21 June, abstract deadline 15 May. possibility of a few ALICE talks in parallel sessions contact PWG conveners
- 7th Workshop on Python in High Energy Physics (PyHEP2024), CERN, Online conference, 1-4 July, abstract deadline 17 May
- Exotic Hadron Spectroscopy 2024, Swansea, UK, 2-4 July, abstract deadline 15 May
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- Synergies between LHC and EIC for quarkonium physics, ECT* Trento, Italy, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 14 June
- CAARI-SNEAP conference, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 21-26 July, Invitation for 1 abstract in parallel session in session: Latest progress in high energy nuclear physics and the future Electron-Ion Collider opportunity.
- 8th International Conference on Chirality, Vorticity, and Magnetic Field in Quantum Matter, Timișoara, Romania, 22-26 July, abstract deadline 31 May
- BOOST2024, Genova,Italy, 29 Jul - 2 Aug. Abstract submission 19 May, Invitation to submit up to five talks and two posters. Please contact CC chairs.
- 16th Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum (Confinement XVI), Cairns, Australia, 19-24 August, abstract deadline 31 May.
- SIF2024 (Societa Italiana di Fisica), Bologna, Italy, 9-13 September, abstract deadline 8 May
- ISNS-24 — International Symposium on Nuclear Science, Sofia, Bulgaria, 9-13 September, abstract deadline 15 May
- 12th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (HP2024), Nagasaki, Japan, 22-27 September, abstract deadline 25 May, Central submission except for posters (to be submitted by presenters)
- XVII international Conference on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors (RPC2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 9-13 Sep 2024, abstract deadline 1 June.
- ICNFP 2024 — International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics 2024, Kolymbary, Crete, 26 Aug - 5 Sep, abstract deadline 30 May
- ISNS-24 — International Symposium on Nuclear Science Sofia, Bulgaria, 9-13 September, abstract deadline 15 May
- CHEP2024, Krakov, Poland, 19-25 October, abstract deadline 10 May
- 2024 IEEE NSS MIC RTSD, Miami, Florida, USA, 26 October - 2 November, abstract deadline 7 May
- 8th International Conference on Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors, MPGD2024, Hefei, China, 14-18 Oct, abstract deadline 24 June.
- 27th High-Energy Physics International Conference in Quantum Chromodynamis (QCD24), Montpellier, France, 8-12 Jul 2024
- Sustainable HEP 2024 — 3rd Edition, 10–12 Jun 2024, abstract deadline 3- April
SCHOOLS
- Summer School "From Hadronic Structure to Heavy-Ion Collisions", Orsay, France, 9-15 June, registration deadline 30 April
- 15th Trans-European School of High Energy Physics, Bezmiechowa Gorna, Poland, 11-20 July, registration deadline 31-Apr-2024
- GRASPA 2024 Summer School in Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Annecy, France, 16-23 July, registration deadline 10 May
- 52nd SLAC Summer Institute (SSI2024), SLAC, USA, 5-16 August-2024, registration deadline 6 July
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Special announcement and dates of major conferences in 2024
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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 27 April 2024
- Gymnazium Omska Praha, Czech Republic
- La Marolle, France
- colleagues' friends and family, Germany, Luxembourg
- Monday 29 April 2024
- CTU Prague, Czech Republic
- Tuesday 30 April 2024
- Fryganiotis School, Greece
- Ecolint Nations parents, Switzerland
- Wednesday 1st May 2024
- ALICE member’s colleagues, Greece
- Thursday 2 May 2024
- KU Leuven, Belgium
- ALICE member’s friends, Italy
- Friday 3 May 2024
- Gymnazium J V Jirsika, Czech Republic
- Gymnazium J V Jirsika, Czech Republic
- Saturday 27 April 2024
- 27th IPPOG Collaboration Meeting took place from 22 - 25 April 2024 at CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
- The ALICE Collaboration at CERN is now on LinkedIn! Join us.
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 the Job Announcements link for details.