ALICE Newsletter No. 378
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No.378,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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European Researchers' Night: Friday 26 September 2025
On the occasion of the European Researchers’ Night, Marco is opening his door for you! The ALICE Spokesperson is inviting all of you to join us for: |
- "ALICE Physics Forum" Wednesday 1 Oct 2025, 09:30, 160/1-009 (CERN)
- ALICE Upgrade Week 2025: 7-10 October
- ALICE Physics Week: 3-7 Nov 2025 at CERN
- ALICE Week: 8-12 Dec 2025
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Editorial Board Membership (deadline: 10 October 2025): EB members are in charge of reviewing papers, technical publications, and conference proceedings, as well as participating in the EB meetings. Close to the end of March 2026, we will have to replace two EB members. On this occasion, we would like to call for people with expertise in PWG-LF, PWG-DQ, PWG-CF, and/or detectors and ALICE operation. Other areas of expertise can also be considered. If you're interested in joining the EB, please do not hesitate to contact the EB Chairs before 10 October 2025. Also, please do not hesitate to contact us if you need further information.
- ALICE Calendar 2026
- "Accelerator Report: Good performance for some, swift recovery for others" by Rende Steerenberg.
The LHC pre-injectors delivered excellent availability throughout recent weeks, while an SPS electrical fault and an LHC collimator vacuum leak have been overcome, allowing a successful return to full luminosity production.
- "CERN accelerates medical applications" By Amedeo Habsburg
Five-year extensions to CERN’s CLEAR and MEDICIS platforms will boost the impact of cutting-edge accelerator technologies in areas ranging from advanced medical treatments to aerospace electronics.
- A new CERN Community Support Centre (CCSC) branch is opening in the Main Building
- ICFA Instrumentation Prizes Nomination 2026: due on 13 October 2025
These awards are bestowed annually to recognise exceptional contributions to instrumentation that have advanced the field of particle physics.
- Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 5 November (physics week at CERN)
- 3 December (extraordinary)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- BE Seminars, Friday 26 Sept 2025, 16:00: "A Novel Calibration Method for the HL-LHC Wire Positioning System Sensors" by Praneeth Sarvade
- Collider Cross Talk, Collider Cross Talk: "𝛼S measurements using EECs [CMS, TH]" by Gherardo Vita, Simon Rothman (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
- Knowledge Transfer Seminar, Monday 29 Sept 2025, 11:00: "From aircraft design to brain sensors - How quantum technology can change society and what it means for you" Dr Tommi Tenkanen
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 30 Sept 2025, 11:00, 222/R-001 (CERN): "First measurement of the energy and Mandelstam-t dependence of incoherent J/ψ photonuclear production with ALICE"
- Lattice seminar, Tuesday 30 Sept 2025, 16:00, 4/2-037 - TH meeting room (CERN): "Nucleon Form Factors from lattice QCD" by Dalibor Djukanovic (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 1 Oct 2025, 11:30: "Unitary renormalisation and the quantum breaking of cosmological reality" by Mr Xi Tong (Cambridge DAMTP)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 1 Oct 2025, 14:00: "High-precision gravitational wave physics from worldline quantum field theory" by Jan Plefka (Humboldt University Berlin (DE))
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
- Open shift block: please contact RC (alice-rc@cern.ch)
- LHC and ALICE:
- During the last week, LHC proton production has been running without major issues. After a few fills were lost early during the weekend, several long fills could be carried out during he weekend.
- For the ALICE the low-field data taking could be concluded on Thursday morning after lit less than 10 days. A total statistic of 3.18/pb could be collected, equally shared between positive and negative magnet polarity. The data were recorded with a 50% increased ROF length in the ITS and MFT to mitigate the impact on the dead time caused by the background visible in layers 3 and 4. Additional data sample with the default ROF and three times higher ROF length were recorded.
- On Thursday morning, the magnet was increased to full field. It is planned to continue with positive polarity till the end of pp production, beginning of November.
- A total luminosity of 33.5/pb of pp data (incl. low field data) was recorded.
- Current Run Manager (15-28 Sep): Mesut Arslandok
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- XXXV International School “Francesco Romano” on Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics (ISFR2025) Monopoli (Bari, Italy), 28 September - 5 October
- HYP2025, Tokyo, 29-30 September
- Exploring a Fixed-Target Program at the EIC: Feasibility and Physics Opportunities, Stony Brook, US, 29-30 September
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 2025 international workshop on the high energy Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC2025) , Guangzhou, China, 6-10 November, abstract deadline 30 September
- 13th ROOT Users Workshop (ROOT 2025), Valencia, Spain, 17-21 November, abstract deadline 30 September
- 25th ZIMÁNYI WINTER WORKSHOP ON HEAVY ION PHYSICS, Budapest, Hungary, 1-5 December, abstract deadline 19 October.
Invitation for a review talk contact CC chairs - MIAMI 2025 Physics Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Florida, US, 12-18 Dec 2025, Invitation for a review talk + additional talks contact CC chairs
- Lake Louise Winter Institut, Lake Louise, Canada, 1-7 March 2026 Invitation for a review talk contact CC chairs
- High-Energy Physics International Conference in Antananarivo - Madagascar, 27 Oct-1 Nov invitation to submit abstracts, contact CC chairs
- Excited QCD 2026 Workshop (EQCD26), Granada, Andalucia, Spain, 8-14 Jan; Abstract deadline 4 Nov. Invitation to submit abstracts, contact CC chairs
SCHOOLS
- EDIT 2026 Instrumentation School at CERN , 3 March, registration deadline 1 October
Upcoming major conferences
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22-27 Mar 2026 |
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18-22 May 2026 |
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31 May - 5 June 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:
- Saturday 20 September 2025
- St. George’s School, UK;
- Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
- Monday 22 September 2025
- Physics students from University of Torino, Italy;
- ALICE member’s family, Germany
- Tuesday 23 September 2025
- Physics students from University of Torino, Italy;
- Allegro, France;
- Istituto Pontifico Sant’Apollinare, Italy;
- PAEC official delegates, Pakistan
- Wednesday 24 September 2025
- IES Alonso Berruguete, Spain
- Thursday 25 September 2025
- LO Siostr Urszulanek, Poland;
- 5th Gymnasium of Stavroupoli, Thessaloniki, Greece;
- professional visitors from Italy
- Friday 26 September 2025
- SIS Fellbach, Germany
- Saturday 20 September 2025
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- 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.