The ALICE Newsletter No. 248
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No.248,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- Hard Probes and Moriond Rehearsals: 20 to 24 March 2023
- NUPECC Long-Range Plan 2024 open Kick-Off meeting: 28 March 2023 from 13:30 to 16:30.
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- This will be followed by FoCal Collaboration Meeting: 12 to 15 May 2023.
- ALICE Physics Week at Bucharest, Romania: 12 to 16 June 2023. Registration open till 2 June 2023.
- ALICE Week: 10 to 14 July 2023.
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Publication and Authorlist status (message from EB Chairs):
- The author list (AL) and acknowledgment files for all ALICE papers that were submitted without author list and that are already accepted by the journal have been generated. EB requests you to check the new files, and make sure you are properly listed and that your ORCID is present and correct. Please send any correction you may have by next Wednesday March 22nd to alice-editorial-board-chair@cern.ch
The message from EB Chiars along with the list of publication is in the link here (needs ALICE access).
- The author list (AL) and acknowledgment files for all ALICE papers that were submitted without author list and that are already accepted by the journal have been generated. EB requests you to check the new files, and make sure you are properly listed and that your ORCID is present and correct. Please send any correction you may have by next Wednesday March 22nd to alice-editorial-board-chair@cern.ch
- The Public Note entitled "Upgrade of the Inner Tracking System during LS3: study of physics performance" is now Open for Comments until 2023-03-29. You are all invited to add your comments by visiting the document link.
- Call for the ALICE Thesis Award 2022-2023: deadline 1 April 2023:
- Fresh doctors (PhD) are encouraged to submit their thesis for the ALICE Thesis Award.
- The defense of the thesis (written in English) should be between 1 April 2022 - 31 March 2023.
- Pb-Pb collision energy in 2023: Pb-Pb run this year will have beam Energy of 6.8 Z TeV or √𝑠NN= 5.36 TeV (as decided by the LHC Machine Committee and supported by all experiments).
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Science Show - Seize the data, Monday 20 Mar 2023 at CERN
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 21 Mar 2023, 11:00: "Measurement of 𝑅(𝐷∗) with hadronic 𝜏+ decays at 𝑠√ = 13 TeV by the LHCb collaboration" by Resmi Puthumanaillam (University of Oxford (GB))
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 21 Mar 2023, 14:00: "Infinite Distance Limits and Factorization" by John Stout (Harvard University)
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here
- "Measurement of the Λ hyperon lifetime": more details in the link here.
- "Inclusive photon production at forward rapidities in pp and p− Pb collisions at √𝑠_NN=5.02 TeV" more details in the link here.
- "Azimuthal correlations of heavy-flavor hadron decay electrons with charged particles in pp and p-Pb collisions at √𝑠_NN = 5.02 TeV": more details in the link here.
- "Measurement of the radius dependence of charged-particle jet suppression in Pb-Pb collisions at √𝑠_NN= 5.02 TeV": more details in the link here.
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
- [CRITICAL] missing central shifters for the next month of operations and especially from the 6 to 20 April where we expect regular physics fills at injection energy
- Missing QC shifter full block starting 30 March
- Missing DCS shifter full block starting 5 April
- Missing ECS shifter full block starting 7 and 9 April
- Missing SL 24 March morning, 25 March morning, 25 March March night, 26 March night, 27 March night, Full blocks starting 28 March, 1 April, 5 April, 9 April, 13 April
Thanks to all collaborators who booked blocks, answered positively to all our solicitations and are giving help for data taking. The situation already considerably improved for most cases.
- Book your shift via SAMS
- Instructions in the section "Starting central shifts" of the operation website
- Central operation activities:
- Machine Power converter unlocked, powering tests ongoing in all sectors
- 18 and19 March Cosmics data taking without magnets for alignement
- No access between 20 March 6 PM to 21 March 8:30 AM
- Experimental cavern closed 22 March at 10 AM
- Beam expected in the machine next week
- STABLE BEAM at injection energy : 6-9 April 2023, more fills exepcted
- First STABLE BEAM at 13.6 TeV expected on 20 April 2023
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Moriond 2023: QCD & High Energy Interactions, La Thuile, Italy, 25 March.
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Incontri Fisica Alte Energie 2023, 12 April, abstract deadline 15-March-2023, National Italian conference.
- Highly Baryonic Matter, Tsukuba, Japan, 29-30 April 2023, abstract deadline 31 March 2023.
- 34th Rencontres de Blois, France, 14-19 May 2023, plenary overview and possible parallels: contact CC chairs. abstract deadline 1 April 2023.
- FPCP 2023, Lyon, France, 29 May-2 June 2023, abstract deadline 20 March 2023.
- EuCAPT 2023, CERN - hybrid 31 May-2 June 2023 abstract deadline 31 March 2023.
- HADRON2023, Genova, Italy 5-9 Jun 2023, plenary overview and possibility of parallels: contact CC chairs. abstract deadline 16 April 2023.
- COMEX7, Catania, Italy, 11-16 June, abstract deadline 4th March 2023.
- MESON 2023, Cracow, Poland 22-27 June 2023, abstract deadline 24 March 2023.
- SFP CG2023, Paris, France, 3-Jul-2023, abstract deadline 7 April 2023.
- Lepton Photon 2023, Melbourne, Australia, 17-21 July 2023, parallel, posters abstracts: contact CC chairs. abstract deadline 18 March 2023.
- TIPP 2023, Cape Town, South Africa, 4-8 September, abstract deadline 15 April 2023.
SCHOOLS
- HASCO school, Goettingen, Germany, 17-25 July 2023, registration deadline 24 March 2023
- EURIZON school on particle detector technologies, 17-28 July 2023, registration deadline 28 March 2023
- 18th CERN-Fermilab HCP Summer school, CERN, 22-31 August, registration deadline 31 March 2023.
- 30th Jyväskylä Summer School, Finland in August 2023: attention to course “Analysis with Electromagnetic Calorimeters”. The application period is 1 March – 30 April 2023.
JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Hannah, Luca):
- The next Ambassador meeting will take place on Wednesday, March 21st from 1-2pm CERN time. Connection details are on the indico page.
- Thanks to everyone who attended the second Healthy Minds for Masterminds Workshop for our Collaboration. Please, take a few minutes to answer this feedback survey.
It will be very helpful for Sarah Speziali and the organisers to follow up on the workshop.
- The call for candidates for the next Junior Representative taking over Hannah’s mandate on 1 August is open. If you consider to run, contact the Juniors Committee.
- There are still many empty shifts which need to be filled urgently! Please consider to take shifts in order to help getting our experiment back running.
OUTREACH NEWS
- Visit to ALICE: underground visits ended.
- Friday 10 Mar: ADACE38, France
- Saturday 11 Mar: Université Populaire de Bonneville, France
- Monay 13 Mar: TU Munich, Germany
- Tuesday 14 Mar: Avgoulea-Linardatos School, Greece; 6th General Lyceum of Kalamaria, Greece
- Wednesday 15 Mar: Bruksgymnasiet, Sweden
- Thursday 16 Mar: IES Canada Real, Spain
- Friday 17 Mar: Hellenic College, Thessaloniki, Greece; Polish Teachers Programme
- Friday 10 Mar: ADACE38, France
- Virtual Visits to ALICE:
- Monday 13.3 High-schools from Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Tuesday 14.3 Participants in Particle Therapy Masterclasses (Algeria, North Macedonia)
- Thursday 16.3 Liceo Valenza, Italy
- International masterclasses - hands-on particle physics: This year the 19th edition of International Masterclasses is taking place during a period of 7 weeks, 13 February to 31 March 2023.
ALICE mastertclasses in the week 11 March February to 16 March 2023:- Wednesday 15.3. ALICE masterclasses were held in Padova, Lyon, Salerno, Vratsa and Bologna
- Wednesday 15.3. ALICE masterclasses were held in Padova, Lyon, Salerno, Vratsa and Bologna
DIVERSITY
- 8th IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics (ICWIP2023): will be held from 10 to 14 July 2023 hosted by India.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) has recognised a particular need to foster the participation of women in physics. The IUPAP Conferences series on Women in Physics has a history not only of success and growth but also of making a difference to the physics community.
ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here.
Your feedback is extremely important, feel free to contact us at
alice-diversity-office@cern.ch
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
| Title |
Institute |
Application deadline |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate in Experimental Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics & JETSCAPE/XSCAPE | Wayne State University. Applications including a CV, list of publications, and three recommendation letters should be sent electronically to: Prof. Joern Putschke |
Open until filled. |
| Postdoc positions in Heavy-Ion Physics | CCNU, Wuhan Contact: Xiaofeng Luo |
15 Mar 2024 |
| Korea CMS postdoctoral positions | Hanyang University | 7 Apr 2023 |
| Fermilab Intensity Frontier Fellowship | Fermilab | 14 May 2023 |
| Postdoctoral position in particle physics | IPHC Strasbourg | 30 Sep 2023 |
| Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Flavour Physics | University of Oxford | 18 Apr 2023 |
| Fixed Term Researcher: Experimental Physics of Fundamental Interactions | University of Florence | 30 Mar 2023 |
| Electronics Engineer | CERN | 13 Apr 2023 |
| Detector Physicist (ALICE) | STFC Daresbury Laboratory, UK | 26 Mar 2023 |
| Assistant professor | University of Groningen (NL) | 16 Apr 2023 |
| Postdoctoral position in experimental Heavy-Ion Physics | Warsaw University of Technology | 31 Mar 2023 |
| Post-Doctoral position in experimental nuclear and particle physics with the STAR experiment at RHIC | University of Tarapacá, Chile | 21 Mar 2023 |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate | Fermilab | 19 May 2023 |
| Post-doctoral position on experimental hadron physics | The Laboratoire Irène-Joliot Curie (IJCLab) in Orsay, France. | 1 May 2023 |
| Applied Physicist (ATLAS Silicon Tracker Upgrade) | CERN | 2 Apr 2023 |
| Asistant Professor | The Institute for Nuclear Physics (IKP) of the Faculty of Physics at the University of Münster | 15 Apr 2023 |
| Lecturer in Physics (Sustainable Technology) | The University of Liverpool. For more information, contact: Prof. Carsten Welsch | 28 Mar 2023 |
| PhD student position on a search for long-lived particles in CMS using machine learning techniques | The Institute for High Energy Physics (HEPHY) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences | 31 Mar 2023 |
| Post-doctoral fellowship in Particle Physics (ALICE ITS3) | Lund University | 31 Mar 2023 |
| Lecturer in Nuclear and Hadron Physics | Glasgow University | 16 Apr 2023 |
| Postdoctoral Research Assistant for the ATLAS experiment | Department of Physics, Oxford / CERN | 11 Apr 2023 |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate | Fermilab | 19 May 2023 |
| Postdoctoral Position in experimental nuclear physics | GANIL | 15 Aprl 2023 |
| https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CXN741/research-associate-in-particle-physics-on-electron-ion-collider-eic | CERN | 20 Mar 2023 |
| Electronics Technical Engineer | CERN | 26 Mar 2023 |
| Experimental Physicist (EP-DI-2023-4-LD) | CERN | 27 Mar 2023 |
| Postdoctoral positions | Universidade de São Paulo Brazil Contact: Marcelo Munhoz |
14 May 2023 |
| Postdoctoral Associate (LHCb) | The Laboratory for Nuclear Science, MIT | 31 Mar 2023 |
| Postdoc in Neutrino Physics | Brookhaven National. Laboratory | 1 May 2023 |
| Postdoctoral Positions in Experimental Particle Physics | Inst. High Energy Physics, Beijing | 31 May 2023 |
| Two Postdoctoral Positions in experimental particle physics | Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences | 31 May 2023 |
| Faculty positions in theoretical and experimental high energy physics | School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology | 31 Aug 2023 |
| Postdoctoral position in experimental High Energy Heavy-ion Physics | The Institute of Physics at Eötvös Loránd University | 31Mar 2023 |
Please refer to Job Announcements link for details.
Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!