The ALICE Newsletter No. 305
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No.305,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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Published this week: PRL Editor's Suggestion on our publication Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 162302 |
- Public PhD defense, Thursday 2 May 2024, 14:00, BE Auditorium Meyrin (CERN): "Studies of crystal collimation for heavy ion operation at the Large Hadron Collider" by Rongrong Cai (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH)). The subject of crystal collimation of heavy ion beams in the LHC (in particular, the problem of the ALICE background in the 2023 Pb-Pb run)!
- SQM+ICHEP 2024 Previews, 29 Apr 2024 → 3 May 2024: Looking forward to seeing many of you either on zoom or in person at CERN in room 160/1-009
- 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
- CERN Holiday on 1 May 2024
- ALICE gets the green light for new subdetectors
- 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
- "Commemorations: Peter Higgs - funeral service streaming": Friday 26 Apr 2024, 11:30, in-person at Main Auditorium (CERN)
- "Moving Out of Academia to Machine Learning", CERN Alumni Events, 26 April 2024 14:30
- BE Seminars, Friday 26 Apr 2024, 16:00: "The Kuranos Project; Monitoring and Analysis of Parkinson's Disease Motor Symptoms Using Wearables - a KT-MA Project" by Dr Lars Varming Joergensen (CERN)
- QCD Seminars, Monday 29 Apr 2024, 14:00: "Collinear factorisation breaking and loop-tree duality: a tribute to Stefano Catani" by German Rodrigo (IFIC CSIC-UV)
- "ECFA Focus topic: LLPs - round table" 29 April 2024
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 30 Apr 2024, 11:00: "The charm and beauty associated with the electroweak gauge bosons with ATLAS" by Camilla Vittori (CERN)
- CERN Lattice Coffee, Tuesday 30 Apr 2024, 16:00: "Smeared R-ratio from lattice QCD" by Alessandro De Santis (University of Rome "Tor Vergata")
- TH String Theory Seminar, Thursday 2 May 2024, 15:00: "Generalized Symmetries and Axion Standard Model" by Ho Tat Lam (MIT)
- 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))
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: 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 now open for booking to the whole collaboration.
- ALICE Run Manager 22-28 April 2024): Silvia Pisano
- LHC and P2 news:
- LHC intensity ramp-up:
The LHC has reached 2000 circulating bunches during the past weekend, before suffering a failure of a cold compressor in IP8 that forced the machine to stop operations. A backup system, with reduced cooling power, has been promptly connected while the situation with the primary compressor was assessed. During this period stable beams have been provided at a reduced intensity of 1200 bunches. The primary compressor was finally re-connected on Wednesday and the recovery completed on Thursday. The beam intensity will be again gradually increased during the next days, to assess the heat load in the various sectors and obtain projections for full machine. - P2 operations:
ALICE has started proton-proton physics production at 500 kHz over the past weekend, with fills at 2000 bunches. During the reconfiguration of the cryogenic cooling in IP8 we performed the regular software upgrade and validation. The data taking efficiency during the stable beams was 90% in average, and the experiment is ready to resume physics production with the next stable beams.
- LHC intensity ramp-up:
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- European AI for Fundamental Physics Conference (EuCAIFCon 2024), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 29 April - 3 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 2 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 30 April
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- Synergies between LHC and EIC for quarkonium physics, ECT* Trento, Italy, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 14 June
- Exotic Hadron Spectroscopy 2024, Swansea, UK, 2-4 July, abstract deadline 30 April
- CAARI-SNEAP conference, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 21-26 July, abstract deadline 2 May, 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 30 April.
- SIF2024 (Societa Italiana di Fisica), Bologna, Italy, 9-13 September, abstract deadline 30 April
- 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: Hard Probes 2023 (HP2024), Nagasaki, Japan, 22-27 September, abstract deadline 25 May, Central submission except for posters
- XVII international Conference on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors (RPC2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 9-13 Sep 2024, abstract deadline 1 June.
- FAIR next generation scientistis (FAIRNESS 2024) - Croatia, Seget Donji, 23-28 September, abstract deadline 1 May
- TWEPP 2024 Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 30 Sep to 4 Oct 2024, abstract deadline 30 April
- 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
- Swiss Summer Student Particle Physics Program, Zurich, July-September 2024, application deadline: 1 May.
- 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
- 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
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 20 April 2024
- 4th Lyceum of Patras, Greece
- Group from Grenoble, France
- Grassi Scientific High School, Italy
- Group from Napoli, Italy
- Guests from Germany and Poland
- Tuesday 23 April 2024
- 2nd General Lyceum of Ioannina Georgios Stavrou, Greece
- 12o Gymnasio Acharnon, Greece
- Lycée Georges Pompidou, France
- FAPESP professional visitors, Brazil
- Wednesday 24 April 2024
- Ionidios Model High School, Greece
- Visitors from Switzerland and UK
- Thursday 25 April 2024
- 2nd Pilot Junior High School of Anavryta, Greece
- INDEX school, Poland
- Friday 26 April 2024
- 1st High School of Sykies, Greece
- CERN Alumni, Italy
- Saturday 20 April 2024
- 27th IPPOG Collaboration Meeting took place from 22 to 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.
Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!