ALICE Newsletter No. 390
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No.390,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
 Seasons's greetings and best wishes from all of us ! High resolution picture |
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 15 Jan 2026, 11:00: "Collectivity in light ions [ALICE, TH]" by Emil Gorm Nielsen (University of Copenhagen (DK)), Giuliano Giacalone
- ALICE Calendar 2026
- ALICE approvals calendar for 2026
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
 Few-Body Systems Award 2025 for young professionals ALICE News |
 ALICE solves mystery of light-nuclei survival Nature volume 648, pages306–311 (2025) ALICE News High resolution image |
- Recent PhDs in ALICE: Congratulations to our new Doctors:
- Dr. Benedict Heybeck
Thesis Title: Measurement of the production and the p-Σ correlation function in proton-proton collisions with ALICE at the LHC
CDS Record: https://repository.cern/records/6pzrx-w4p78
Defense Date: 29 October 2025, University of Frankfurt
Service Task: O2-PDP CPU barrel tracking"
- Dr. Suraj Prasad
Thesis Title: Exploring the strangeness enhancement and collectivity in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC using event shape engineering
CDS Record: https://repository.cern/records/9v1cx-sq289
Date of Thesis Defense: 06 October 2025 at Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Raghunath Sahoo
Service Task: Rivetization of analyses
- Dr. Debadatta Behera
Thesis Title: Multiplicity-dependent Charmonia Production with ALICE and Collective Phenomena in O-O Collisions at LHC Energies
CDS Record: https://repository.cern/records/2qm5n-sw073
Date of Thesis Defense: 25th November 2025 at Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Raghunath Sahoo
Service Task: Study of MFT standalone tracking performance with respect to the number of clusters in the tracklets
- Dr. Benedict Heybeck
- CERN Courier (Nov-Dec 2025), Energy Frontier: ALICE observes ρ–proton attraction
- "Reflecting on all we have achieved together" by Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN.
On behalf of the current Management, I take this opportunity to express our profound gratitude for your unwavering commitment and outstanding work throughout our mandate.
- "Accelerator Report: A strong finish and a swift transition into the winter break" by Rende Steerenberg.
The 2025 run was successfully completed on 8 December at 6.00 a.m., signalling the start of the year-end technical stop for the LHC and the injector complex.
- "LHC delivers a record number of particle collisions in 2025"
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- 47th School of Computing - Latin America 2026: 11-24 January 2026
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 14 Jan 2026, 14:00: "Toponium Day"
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: YETS ongoing
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
None
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 31 January.
- 28th Conference on Computing in High energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP2026), Bangkok, Thailand, 25-29 May, abstract deadline 17 January
- Lake Louise Winter Institute, Lake Louise, Canada, 1 March, abstract deadline 31 January
- Exotic Hadron Spectroscopy 2026, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 30 March, abstract deadline 1 February
- 25th IEEE Real Time Conference (RT2026), La Biodola, Italy, 25-29 May. abstract deadline 4 January
- 16th Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement CPOD 2026, CERN, 13 April, abstract deadline 1 February
- 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.
- 17th International Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms, Varenna, Italy, 14 June, abstract deadline 31 January
- 13th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2026), Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 21 June, abstract deadline 16 January (central submission for talks contact PWG conveners)
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: visits to ALICE cavern are possible till 19 February (excepting the days of the CERN year end closure)
- ALICE visits this week:
- Saturday 13 December 2025
- colleagues’ friends, Italy, Switzerland, Russia
- Sunday 14 December 2025
- Max-Born-Gymnasium Neckargemünd, Germany
- SolidWatts, Switzerland
- Monday 15 December 2025
- Colleague's friends, Switzerland;
- High-school students from India
- arts@CERN
- VIP visits : Monday 15 December 2025
- Visite confédérale du Conseil d’État de Berne et du Conseil d’État de Genève, Confédération Suisse
- Professor Edy Giri Rachman Putra, Deputy for Human Resources, Science and Technology, National Research and Innovation Agency, Republic of Indonesia
- Tuesday 16 December 2025
- Master PFA/IMAPP Clermont-Ferrand, France
- 1st High School of Thermi, Greece
- UNR - Umwelt, Nachhaltige Entwicklung und Raum de l'Office fédéral de la statistique (OFS), Switzerland
- Wednesday 17 December 2025
- Professional (engineers) visitors, Italy
- Themistoklis high-school, Greece
- CERN Press Office visit
- Antigel artist, Switzerland
- ALICE FLP team; colleague’s family, Slovakia
- MdA Vaud, Switzerland; professional visitors (OSCE), Switzerland
- Thursday 18 December 2025
- The Sweyne Park School, UK
- International School of Athens, Greece
- Friday 19 December 2025
- colleague’s family, Mexico
- Saturday 13 December 2025
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- Nature article: deuteron and antideuteron formation
- 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
- "25 by ’25 initiative: diversity progress at CERN"
The five-year project focused on improving nationality and gender diversity across the Organization. - 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.