ALICE Newsletter No. 408
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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"ALICE 3" Week: May 2026
High-resolution pictures in CDS
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 12 May 2026, 11:00, Main Auditorium (CERN): "Evidence of different prompt baryon and D meson elliptic flow in Pb-Pb collisions at = 5.36 TeV with ALICE at the LHC" by Stefano Politano (CERN).
- LHCP 2026 rehearsals: 12-15 May, agenda being developed
- 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
Collaboration Board members at the start of the CB meeting on 8 May |
Endorsements by the ALICE Collaboration Board (Meeting on 8 March 2026):
- Transfer of full membership from Nagasaki University to Osaka Univerity
- Osaka University, Japan (Team Leader: Ken Owama) is now a full member of ALICE
- Osaka University, Japan (Team Leader: Ken Owama) is now a full member of ALICE
- Resource Coordinator
- Matteo Castoldi (CERN): second mandate from 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2029
- Matteo Castoldi (CERN): second mandate from 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2029
- Diversity Office
- Szymon Mateusz Pulawski (U. of Silesia, PL) - from 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2029
- Szymon Mateusz Pulawski (U. of Silesia, PL) - from 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2029
- PWG-CF Convener
- Laura Šerkšnytė (CERN) - from 01/06/2026 to 31/05/2028
- Laura Šerkšnytė (CERN) - from 01/06/2026 to 31/05/2028
- Conference Committee Members:
- Fabio Colamaria (INFN Bari, IT) - from 01/06/2026 to 31/05/2028
- Antonello Di Mauro (CERN) - from 01/06/2026 to 31/05/2028
- Ivan Vorobyev (CERN) - from 01/06/2026 to 31/05/2028
- CB Communications: ALMIRA Project: ALMIRA (ALICE 3 Monolithic Integrated TRacker Asics) Project established to
design, develop, qualify, and produce the monolithic pixel sensors serving both the Inner Tracker (IT) and the Outer Tracker (OT). A common ALICE 3 IT and OT project. Co-Project Leaders:- Gianluca Aglieri Rinella (CERN)
- Magnus Mager (CERN)
- Walter Snoeys (CERN)
- CB Communications: Outreach Coordination
- Tapan Nayak (U. of Houston, US) - from 3 April 2026 to 31 March 2029
- Simone Ragoni (U. of Silesia, PL) - from 3 April 2026 to 31 March 2029
| Editorial board membership (deadline 22 May): EB members are in charge of reviewing papers, technical publications, and conference proceedings, as well as participating in the EB meetings. By the end of the year, we will have to replace two EB members. On this occasion, we would like to call for people with expertise on PWG-CF, PWG-JE, PWG-HF, PWG-DQ, detectors, and/or software, but other areas of expertise could also be considered. If you're interested in joining the EB or want to nominate someone, please contact the EB chairs by 22 May. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you need further information. |
- Machine Learning for Enhancing Data Reconstruction and Simulation in ALICE
- CERN Courier March-April 2026, Energy Frontier: The flavour dependence of jet structures
- "ALICE sees new sign of primordial plasma in proton collisions" 20 March 2026
- "Accelerator Report: Excellent performance at the LHC" By Matteo Solfaroli, Deputy Leader of the Operations Group (BE-OP)
- "A collective commitment to safety as LS3 approaches" By Mark Thomson & Benoît Delille
- "Inclusion Matters: CERN’s new participatory inclusion initiative" A new “Inclusion Matters.” initiative invites the CERN community to co-create 50 visible and tangible inclusion actions by 2030
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar, Friday 8 May 2026, 11:00: "Advanced Compute Scaling in the Angstrom Era of Integrated Circuit Technologies" by Anabela Veloso (Imec)
- QCD Seminars, Monday 11 May 2026, 14:00: "Annihilators of Feynman Integrals" by Vsevolod Chestnov (Oxford)
- "Chaos, Scars, Thermalization" 11-15 May 2026 at CERN
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 13 May 2026, 14:00: "Color Glass to Color Fluid: Thermalization in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions" by Mr Raju Venugopalan (BNL, CFNS Stony Brook, and Higgs Center, Univ. of Edinburgh)
- Archives, Library and Open Science event, Wednesday 13 May 2026, 16:00: "Meet the author of STARBORN: How the stars made us - and who we would be without them" by Roberto Trotta (International School for Advanced Study in Trieste)
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
- After the successful completion of the 1.2 TeV run, LHC resumed pp operation in the high-mu regime, that proceeded up to Monday morning, when the MD devoted to the tests toward the high-lumi LHC operations started. The latter were finished on Wednesday night, when the physics production was resumed.
- ALICE continued with a successful data taking, with 27.4 pb-1 collected so far. During the MD phases the detector was kept in SUPERSAFE + ITS OFF, while during the data taking phase the data collection proceeded at 500 kHz with negative/negative magnet polarities.
- After the successful completion of the 1.2 TeV run, LHC resumed pp operation in the high-mu regime, that proceeded up to Monday morning, when the MD devoted to the tests toward the high-lumi LHC operations started. The latter were finished on Wednesday night, when the physics production was 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.
- DCS:
- Full block starting on May 25 (MM-AA-NN).
- Full block starting on June 4 (MM-AA-NN).
- Full block staring on June 14 (expert for the first two days, regular afterwords - MM-AA-NN)
- ECS:
- Partial expert block: May 19-20 (NN)
- Full expert block starting on June 10 (MM-AA-NN)
- Partial regular block: June 16-17 (NN)
- QC:
- Full expert block starting on May 31 (MM-AA-NN)
- Partial expert block: June 4-5 (MM)
- Partial expert block: June 14-15 (MM)
- Partial regular block: June 16-17 (NN)
- DCS:
- Run Manager (4-17 May 2026): Sara Haidlova
Sara is a PhD student at the Czech Technical University in Prague. Her research focuses on ultra-peripheral collisions, particularly the photoproduction of the J/ψ meson. In the past, she has participated in operations at Point 2 in central roles and, for part of last year, served as the SRC for the Muon Forward Tracker. This is her first Run Manager mandate.
During the current mandate, Sara will oversee the final phase of the 2026 pp production period, during which ALICE will proceed with data taking at 500 kHz with negative/negative magnet polarities, along with high-rate tests for the TPC.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Rencontres de Blois: Particle and Cosmology (Blois 2026), Blois, France, 10-15 May
- QCD Evolution 2026, El Escorial, Spain, 11-15 May
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- ISMD 2026 (54th International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics), Chungli, Taiwan, 17-21 Aug, abstract deadline 15 May
- Many speaking opportunities for ALICE. Please contact CC chairs.
- Vertex 2026 in Stoos, Switzerland, 20–24 July, abstract deadline 15 May
- two invitations for talks on ITS2 operations and ITS3 sensor characterisation
- two invitations for talks on ITS2 operations and ITS3 sensor characterisation
- NSTAR 2026, Seville, Spain, 7-11 Sep, abstract deadline 30 Jun
- 12th International Workshop on Semiconductor Pixel Detectors for Particles and Imaging (PIXEL2026), 8-12 Sep 2026, Miyazaki, Japan, abstract deadline: 7 June
- Quark-Gluon Dynamics in the Nuclear Medium, 9-13 Nov 2026, Trento, Italy, abstract deadline: 30 Sep 2026
- XV International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2026), 19-30 Aug 2026, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, abstract deadline: 1 June
- Opportunities for severl ALICE PLenary talks. Please contact CC chairs.
- Kruger26 (International Workshop on Discovery Physics at the LHC), 30 November – 4 December 2026, Kruger National Park, South Africa
- Invitations for 3 talks; Introduction to Heavy-Ion Physics, Jets and Heavy Flavour as QGP Probes, Advances in Detector Technology
SCHOOLS
- 17th Trans-European School of High Energy Physics, 10-18 July 2026, Suceava, Rumania - Deadline 7 May
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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)
- 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:
- Friday 1st May 2026
- colleague’s friends, Spain
- Saturday 2 May 2026
- colleagues’ friends, Hungary, Germany; Mirabilia, Italy
- Tuesday 5 May 2026
- Ecole des Arches, Switzerland;
- Swiss Engineering, Switzerland;
- Life Lab Foundation, India
- Wednesday 6 May 2026
- Collège de Saussure, Switzerland
- Thursday 7 May 2026
- 3M4, Switzerland; IMD Maypril 2021 Alumni, Switzerland
- Friday 8 May 2026
- International School Bergamo, Italy;
- SEV American College, Türkiye;
- Service d’accreditation suisse SAS, Switzerland
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- Mexico in ALICE 3
- ALICE ITS3 by Alexander Kluge
- ALICE observes partonic flow even in small colliding systems
- Do all jets lose energy in the same way?
- International Women’s Day, 8 March
- LHC Career Event: 17 Mar 2026
- ALICE 3 MID
- ALICE EMCal
- International Day of Women and Girls in Science
- Curiouser and curiouser: a riddle at the ALICE detector
DIVERSITY
- "E-learning course “Ethics at CERN” for all CERN personnel":
To ensure that everyone is aware of the guidelines of our ethical framework, the HR Department has developed an e-learning course entitled “Ethics at CERN”, which is available in English and French on the CERN Learning Hub. As of now, this course is mandatory for all members of the CERN personnel. Ethics at CERN
- "Inclusion Matters: CERN’s new participatory inclusion initiative" A new “Inclusion Matters.” initiative invites the CERN community to co-create 50 visible and tangible inclusion actions by 2030.
- 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.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES