ALICE Newsletter No. 366
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No.366,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
Oxygen Run at the LHC: the first Stable Oxygen Beams are expected on Friday. Half a day of data taking with Neon is planned early next week.
- First-ever collisions of oxygen at the LHC
- Oxygen collisions at the LHC: Collapsing the nuclear wave function
See the Oxygen run news for details.
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 8 Jul 2025, 11:00: "Examining the nucleosynthesis process and the inner nuclei structure with (anti)hypernuclei at the LHC" by Janik Ditzel (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE))
- "ALICE Physics Forum": Wednesday 9 Jul 2025, 09:30; 160/1-009 (CERN)
- EPS-HEP Rehearsals: 30 Jun 2025 - 4 Jul 2025: Plenary talk rehearsal (Igor Altsybeev) at 2 PM Friday 4th July
- ALICE Week: 14-18 July 2025, Council Chamber, CERN
- ALICE Thesis Award Presentation: 15 July, 11:45 AM
- Collaboration Board meeting, Friday 18 July: Open to all ALICE members
- ALICE Summer Party and ALICE Group Photo: 16 July, 19:00 hrs: Please Register (deadline 7 July)
- ALICE Thesis Award Presentation: 15 July, 11:45 AM
- ALICE Upgrade Week 2025: 7-10 October, Burghausen (Germany):
deadline for registration and hotel booking: 7 Aug 2025
- Special preview screening - "The Peace Particle": 4 July 2025, 16:00 hrs; CERN Main Auditorium!
Watch a special preview screening of a new powerful documentary about science for peace!
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
ALICE-India Collaboration meeting: VECC, Kolkata, 1-4 July 2025
- CERN Thesis Migration:
- CERN CDS team has announced thesis migration from https://cds.cern.ch/ to a new CERN Repository ( https://repository.cern/).
- Link to all ALICE Theses!
- "News from the June 2025 CERN Council Session" By Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN
- "CERN management structure for 2026–2030, part 2" By Mark Thomson, Director-General designate of CERN
- "Accelerator Report: The LHC wraps up its first 2025 physics block" By Rende Steerenberg
- "ALICE measures a rare Ω baryon" : CERN Courier (May/June 2025) Energy Frontier
Link to CERN Courier ALICE articles!
- 13th ROOT Users Workshop will be held in Valencia, Spain: 17–21 Nov 2025
- 16th edition of the Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement (CPOD2026) will take place at CERN, 13-17 April 2026.
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- Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 27 August (mini-week -> follow-up and approval of exceptional Run 3 preliminaries for initial stages in September)
- 1 October (extra-ordinary
- 5 November (physics week at CERN)
- 3 December (extra-ordinary)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar, Friday 4 Jul 2025, 11:00: "Pushing the Limits: Advanced SiC Detectors for Operation in Harsh Environments" by Dr Giulio Pellegrini (Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica (IMB-CNM-CSIC) (ES))
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 9 Jul 2025, 14:00: "TH Institute: BSM" by Prof. Matthew Dolan (University of Melbourne)
- QTI Seminars, Thursday 10 Jul 2025, 10:00: "Role of scrambling and noise in temporal information processing with quantum systems" by Prof. Supanut Thanasilp
- CERN Colloquium, Thursday 10 Jul 2025, 16:30: "Synchrotron X-ray radiation damage in protein structure determination: why do we care?" by Elspeth Garman (Oxford University)
- STELLAR, A voyage across the Universe with Nobel Laureates and Astronauts: 19 July 2025.
CERN Science Gateway celebrates the the 56th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon. Public Event.
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
| Title | Internal | Submission Date |
| Study of ⟨pT⟩ and its higher moments, and extraction of the speed of sound in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE | Link | 12 Jun 2025 |
| Femtoscopic study of the proton-proton and proton-deuteron systems in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC | 2 May 2025 |
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
- Open shift block:
- During the next week there few open expert shifts (ECS: 12/13 Jul. (night) and QC: 7. Jul (night), 10. Jul.) .!
In case of questions please contact RC (alice-rc@cern.ch)
- During the next week there few open expert shifts (ECS: 12/13 Jul. (night) and QC: 7. Jul (night), 10. Jul.) .!
- LHC and ALICE:
- After the end of the technical stop last Friday, the Oxygen special run period started.
On Sunday morning, the first Oxygen was injected into the LHC, and proton-Oxygen collisions were established Sunday afternoon. The first stable beams were declared on Tuesday morning.
Machine operation went very smoothly, and pO program could be finished already on Thursday morning.
- After access on Thursday morning for the removal of LHCf, commissioning for OO collisions started, and the first Stable Beams are expected on Friday. The production for OO will continue during the weekend.
- Beginning of next week, the switch to Ne will be carried out, and half a day of data taking is planned.
- ALICE took data smoothly during Stable Beams recording 7.4/nb of pO, exceeding the goal of 5/nb.
During the commissioning for pO a background test could be carried out, which showed no significant background contribution. A similar test was also carried out during the OO commissioning, with a similar result.
- After the end of the technical stop last Friday, the Oxygen special run period started.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
2025 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2025), Marseille France 7-11 July: ALICE has a strong presence with 23 parallel talks and 1 ALICE highlight talk.
- 46th CERN School of Computing (CSC 2025), Lund, Sweden, 6 - 19 July
- 69th annual conf of the South African Institute of Physics (SAIP), 7-11 July
- Parton Showers and Resummation School 2025, CERN, 7-11 July
- Quantum Chromodynamics and multidimensional hadron structure”, School, Orsay, France, 7-11 July
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- XIV International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2025), Kolymbari, Crete, Greece. 17-31 July, abstract deadline 20 June. Invitation for 1 ALICE highlight talk, 1 overview on Strangeness, 1 overview on Quarkonia, 1 overview on HF, 1 talk on the contributions of ALICE to the breakthrough price 2025 and 1 outreach on the same topicon, + overview talks on trigger, DAQ, detectors, upgrades etc.. Contact PWG and CC chairs.
- The 33rd International Workshop on Vertex Detectors “VERTEX2025”, Knoxville USA, 25 August, abstract deadline 30 June, Invitations to submit abstracts , contact Projects & CC
- Corfu2025 Workshop on SM & Beyond, Corfu, Greece, 24 August - 3 September 2025. Invitation for a plenary talk Contact PWG, CC chairs
- Joint International Workshop on Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy and the QCD Structure of the Nucleon (IWHSS-QCD-N'25), San Sebastian, Spain, 1 September, abstract deadline 15 July
- QCD at the extremes, online 1 September, abstract deadline 15 August
- Low-x 2025, Medulin, Istria, Croatia, 8-12 September. Abstract deadline 30 June. Invitation to submit abstracts on QCD and HI. Contact PWG and CC chairs
- 17th International Conference on Heavy Quarks and Leptons (HQL 2025), Beijing, China, 15 September, abstract deadline 20 August
- 53rd SLAC Summer Institute, “Pathways to New Physics., Stanford, USA, 28 July - 8 Aug. Abstract deadline 24 July.
- 32nd International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies: Lepton-Photon 2025 (LP2025), Madison, (US), 25-29 August. Abstract deadline for posters: 31 July. Invitation to submit abstracts for Quark Flavor Session AND Heavy Ion Physics, Contact PWG and CC chairs.
- 53rd International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD) 2025, Corfu, Greece, 21-28 September. Abstract deadline 27 July. Invitation to submit abstract. Contact PWG and CC chairs.
- Baryons 2025 (The 2025 International Conference on the Structure of Baryons), Jeju, South Korea, 10 November, abstract deadline 31 July
- The 14th international "Hiroshima" Symposium on the Development and Application of Semiconductor Tracking Detectors (HSTD-14), Taipei, 16 November, abstract deadline 1 August
- Second International Conference on the Physics of Two Infinities, Tokyo, Japan 19 Nov 2025. Abstract deadline 15 August. Invitation to submit parallel talks. Contact PWG, CC chair
- 7th international workshop on new Photon-Detectors, Bologna, Italy, 3-5 Dec 2025.
SCHOOLS
- 53rd SLAC Summer Institute, “Pathways to New Physics., Stanford, USA, 28 July, abstract deadline 24 July
Upcoming major conferences
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Florian, Rohaan)
- 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.
- ALICE Theses website
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis.
OUTREACH NEWS
ALICE visits
- Saturday 28 June 2025
- Colfe’s school, UK
- colleague’s friend, Italy
- Sunday 28 June 2025
- colleague’s friends, Germany
- Tuesday 1st July 2025
- Lutterworth High School, UK
- colleague’s friends, Italy
- Wednesday 2 July 2025
- CPE Lyon, USA
- Thursday 3 July 2025
- Aristoteleio College, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Friday 4 July 2025
- Putney Student Travel, USA
- Korean Summer students
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- It's Oxygen time at the LHC
- ALICE eyes the cosmos
- ALICE measures a rare Ω baryon
- ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
- Quark Matter 2025 highlights
- 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
- ALICE Muon Spectrometer
- Getting lead to the LHC? How?
- ALICE is gearing up for QM 2025!
- 11 Feb: International Day of Women and Girls in Science
- "The Other 99%"
- ALICE Christmas video
- Early Morning Coffee at CERN podcast Episode 3: Turning lead into primordial soup with Marco Van LeeuwenInstagram Live from ALICE cavern with Jiyoung Kim, Kai Schweda, and Simone Ragoni
- QGP at 50: Facebook, X/Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram
DIVERSITY
- "A peaceful end to the working day": Avoiding work seeping into our private lives
- 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
Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!