ALICE Newsletter No. 388
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No.388,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
| 8 November - 6 December: Pb-Pb physics run 8 December: start of YETS 9 December at noon: End-of-Run party at Point 2 Visits to the ALICE cavern are possible between 8 December and 19 February (except from 20 December to 4 January) 10 December 2025 at 1 PM: Opening of the shift booking for 2026 |
- ALICE Week: 8-12 December 2025, Main Auditorium (CERN)
- ALICE Group Photo: Wednesday 10 December, 16:00 hrs.
- Reception at Restaurant 2: Wednesday 10 December, 18:00 hrs.
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 11 Dec 2025, 11:00: "Collectivity in light ions [ALICE, TH]" by Emil Gorm Nielsen (University of Copenhagen (DK)), Giuliano Giacalone
- ALICE Calendar 2026
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Call for plenary speaker nominations (3 talks) to SQM2026 and ICHEP2026: Deadline TODAY, 5 Dec 2025.
- CERN Courier (Nov-Dec 2025), Energy Frontier: ALICE observes ρ–proton attraction
- "Why we need a CERN-wide AI strategy" Joachim Mnich, Director for Research and Computing, CERN (13 Nov 2025)
- "Accelerator Report: 2025 is another record-breaking year for protons in the LHC" By Rende Steerenberg (12 Nov 2025)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- QTI Seminars, Friday 5 Dec 2025, 10:00: "Superradiant interactions of cosmic relics and how to look for them" by Mario Galanis
- Detector Seminar, Friday 5 Dec 2025, 11:00: "Future Upgrades of the LHCb ECAL: the LS3 Enhancement and the PicoCal" by Loris Martinazzoli (CERN)
- BE Seminars, Friday 5 Dec 2025, 16:00: "Wakis: An open-source 3D time-domain electromagnetic solver for beam-coupling impedance simulations" by Elena De La Fuente Garcia (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (ES))
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 10 Dec 2025, 11:30: "Photo- and Hadrodisintegration constraints on massive relics decaying into neutrinos" by Dr Jonas Frerick (U. Rome La Sapienza)
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 11 Dec 2025, 13:30: "Ultralight Dark Matter from the Edge of Field Space" by Mathias Becker (JGU Mainz)
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
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
- Opening of the shift booking for 2026: 10 December 2025 at 1 PM
- LHC and ALICE:
- During the last week, Pb-Pb production continued with a mixed machine availability. In the current Pb-Pb run, ~38% machine was in Stable Beams.
- At the end of last week, the magnet polarity was changed to negative in ALICE. In the first, a higher background was observed in a single stave of the innermost layer. As a result, we decided to switch back to positive polarity.
- One Monday, a short campaign to study the background was arranged to check the influence of different beam parameters. Especially the effects of the dispersion knobs in IP2 and IP8 that we tested. The test revealed a correlation with a dispersion knob in IP8. Since a recommissioning would have been to costly for the integrated luminosity, we decided to continue with positive polarity till the end of the Pb-Pb period.
- On Tuesday morning, the MD period was carried out. The availability of the machine was excellent, which allowed an earlier finishing already on Wednesday at noon.
- ALICE continues taking data with a leveling of 23kHz. So far, 1.56/nb were recorded of 1.65/nb delivered luminosity.
- Current Run Manager (24 Nov - 8 Dec): Michal Broz
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- MIAMI 2025 Physics Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Florida, US, 12-19 December
- The 69th DAE-BRNS Symposium on Nuclear Physics, NIT Jalandhar, India, 8-12 December
- Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology 2025 (WHEPP-2025), IIT Hyderabad, India, 14-20 December
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Trento" Workshop: 21st "Trento" Workshop on Advanced Silicon Radiation Detectors, 17-19 Feb 2026, INFN and University of Perugia, Perugia (Italy), 17-19 February, abstract deadline 1 December.
- 28th Conference on Computing in High energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP2026), Bangkok, Thailand, 25-29 May, abstract deadline 19 December.
- 25th IEEE Real Time Conference (RT2026), La Biodola, Italy, 25-29 May. abstract deadline 1 April
- 33rd International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2026), Bologna, Italy, 4-8 May 2026, application deadline: 15 Jan 2026. invitation to submit abstracts. Please contact your PWG or CC
- XXXIX Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d'Aoste, La Thuille, Aosta Valley, Italy. 1-8 March. Invitation for an highlight talk by ALICE “Recent Results from ALICE” (20’ talk). Please contact CC.
SCHOOLS
- Frontiers in Nuclear and Hadronic Physics 2026, Arcetri, FIrence, Italy, 16-28 Feb 2026, Application deadline: 18 Dec 2025
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22-27 Mar 2026 |
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18-22 May 2026 |
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21-26 Jun 2026 |
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30 July - 5 Aug 2026 |
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior Representatives (Bianca, Rohaan, Sara)
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- ALICE Run 3 Analysis Resources: 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 new to the Run 3 data analysis.
- Link to all ALICE Theses
- ALICE Theses website
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: a ~3-min video summarising the key results of the PhD thesis.
- ALICE Run 3 Analysis Resources: 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 new to the Run 3 data analysis.
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE visits this week:
- Saturday 29 November 2025
- The King's School Macclesfield, UK
- Saint Dominics' International School, Portugal
- colleague’s friends, UK
- Tuesday 2 December 2025
- colleague’s friends, Canada
- stagiaire, France
- Wednesday 3 December 2025
- VIP visit : Honourable Dr Clifton Grima, Minister for Education, Sport, Youth, Research and Innovation, Republic of Malta
- Thursday 4 December 2025
- Geitonas School, Athens, Greece
- Friday 5 December 2025
- Colegio Montealto, Spain
- Colegio Montealto, Spain
- Saturday 29 November 2025
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- 17 years and revitalised: ALICE TOF confirms excellent time resolution in Run3 continuous readout
- Lead ion beams at the LHC
- Observation of an attraction between a proton and a ρ⁰ (rho) meson
- Marco's visit to India
- Instagram Live with Marco Van Leeuwen (European Researchers' Night: Friday 26 September 2025)
- Shape-shifting collisions probe secrets of early Universe
- Special #LHC seminar on 16 September 2025
- Physics with small ions: jet quenching in Oxygen collisions at the LHC
- Geometry-driven flow in collisions of Oxygen and Neon ions at the LHC
- ALICE at Initial Stages 2025
- Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Secretary of India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST)
- Visit of His Excellency Mr. Rudy Montero Mata, Deputy Minister of Science, Technology, and Environment, Republic of Cuba
- RICH prototype for ALICE 3 tested at the PS
- ALICE Juniors Talk Brazil
- ALICE’s new management team
- ALICE Thesis Award 2025
- It's Oxygen time at the LHC
DIVERSITY
- ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here. Your feedback is 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.