ALICE Newsletter No. 404
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No.404,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- "ALICE Thesis Award 2026 - call for nominations": Deadline: 10 April 2026 (TODAY)
- "ALICE 3" Week: 4-8 May 2026: Please register by 20 April if you plan to participate in person!
- 7th ALICE Upgrade Week Calaserena Resort, Geremeas, Cagliari, 14-18 September 2026:
- ALICE UPC Workshop: Katowice, Poland, 15-19 June 2026
- ALICE Calendar 2026
- ALICE approvals calendar for 2026
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Origins of Matter Explored through Femtoscale Quantum Many-Body Systems -
Nurturing Talent in the Quantum Era: 3-4 April 2026: University of Tokyo
- with significant ALICE participation
- ALICE Breakthrough Prize PhD Grant 2026 (ALICE-BP-PhD-2026): PhD grants funded thanks to the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics awarded to the ALICE Collaboration. Deadline: 30 April 2026
- CERN Courier March-April 2026, Energy Frontier: The flavour dependence of jet structures
- Accelerator Report: HiLumi LHC beam reliability runs pave the way to the future: By Bettina Mikulec
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- QCD Seminars, Monday 13 Apr 2026, 14:00: "Two-Loop Spacelike Splitting Amplitudes in Full-Color QCD" by Federico Buccioni
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 14 Apr 2026, 11:00: "Study of top quark pair production at the threshold using CMS data" by Alexander Grohsjean (Hamburg University (DE))
- Lattice seminar, Tuesday 14 Apr 2026, 16:00: "The smeared R-ratio in isoQCD from first-principles lattice simulations" by Francesca Margari (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
- "Prototyping at CERN" 15 Apr 2026
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 15 Apr 2026, 14:00: "Talk by Nikolay Gromov"
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 16 Apr 2026, 11:00: "H → ZZ spin correlations [CMS, TH]" by J.A. Aguilar-Saavedra, Jeffrey Davis (Johns Hopkins University (US))
- "Quantum Observables for Collider Physics 2026": 20-24 Apr 2026
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
- LHC and ALICE
- LHC is continuing with the low-mu run. ALICE is taking data at 500 kHz with a very good efficiency.
- On Wednesday, an access took place, and activities were granted in the shadow to CTP, EMCAL, ITS, TPC and to the team working on the MID prototype for ALICE 3.
- In the shadow of the access, ALICE magnet polarities were swapped to the negative/negative configuration, and data taking at 500 kHz has then been resumed.
- Open shift blocks:
If you have any question about the training and, overall, on how to get ready to cover these earlier shifts do not hesitate to contact us (alice-rc@cern.ch). Dedicated trainings can be arranged.
- Urgent: the night QC shift on 10 April (N)
- A full (non expert) QC block starting on 9 May (MM-AA-NN)
- Expert ECS and QC blocks from 19 May
- Urgent: the night QC shift on 10 April (N)
- Run Manager (6-19 Apr 2026): Magnus Thoegersen
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 16th Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement (CPOD), CERN, 13-17 April 2026
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 37th Rencontres de Blois - Particle Physics and Cosmology, Blois, France, 10-15 May 2026, abstract deadline 10 April
- possibility of 2 to 4 contributed talks => contact CC chairs
- QCD Evolution 2026 Workshop, El Escurial, Spain, 11-15 May, abstract deadline 30 April
- BEAUTY 2026 at Maastricht, NL, 1 June, abstract deadline 15 Apr 2026
- Invitation for 2 plenary talks:
- LHC multi-exp talk on recent results with light collision systems at the LHC and future perspectives, focus on the role of heavy flavours.
- Recent ALICE results and prospects for Run4 and 5 (focus on HF/DQ)
- Contact CC chairs
- Possibilities for lighting talks and posters for juniors
- Invitation for 2 plenary talks:
- 4th Joint ECFA-NuPECC-APPEC Activity Workshop "Synergies between the EIC and the LHC", Cagliari, Italy, 8-10 June, abstract deadline 30 April
- QCD@Work 2026 - International Workshop on Quantum Chromodynamics - Theory and Experiment, Trani, Italy, 16-19 June, abstract deadline 30 April (New deadline)
- Invitations for multi-exp talk: recent results from LHC collab in light colliding systems (in particular pilot O-O and Ne-Ne runs).
- (25+5)-recent results from ALICE and future perspectives (25+5)
- 1 contributed talk (15+5)
- Contact CC chairs
- 17th Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum (QCHS26), Wrocław, Poland, 29 June - 4 July, abstract deadline 26 April
- Strong and Electro-Weak Matter 2026 (SEWM), Helsinki, Finland, 17-21 August, abstract deadline 30 April
- 9th Conference on Micropattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGD2026), Prague, Czechia, 31 August - 4 September, abstract deadline 24 April
- 23rd International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI), 6-10 Jul, abstract deadline 15 April
- Looking for a plenary speaker
- ISMD 2026, Chungli, Taiwan, 17-21 Aug, abstract deadline 15 May
- invitations for several topical ALICE plenary talks
- Vertex 2026 in Stoos, Switzerland, 20–24 July, abstract deadline 15 May
- two invitations for talks on ITS2 operations and ITS3 sensor characterisation
SCHOOLS
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Upcoming major conferences
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior Representatives (Bianca, Rohaan, Sara)
- 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.
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE visits this week:
- Wednesday 8 April 2026
- SP w Wysokiej, Poland
- Thursday 9 April 2026
- IES Enrica Valor, Spain
- S Cubed, University of Malta
- Friday 10 April 2026
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
- Wednesday 8 April 2026
- ALICE Virtual Visits
- Saturday 28 March 2026:
- virtual visit for online Particle Therapy Masterclass in Greece
- virtual visit for Particle Therapy Masterclasses in Novi Sad (Serbia) and Algeria
- Saturday 28 March 2026:
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
DIVERSITY
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