ALICE Newsletter No. 354
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No.354,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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- ALICE mini week: 14 - 17 April 2025
- ALICE Upgrade Week 2025: 7-10 October in Burghausen (Germany), hosted by the TUM group.
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Social media enthusiasts and bloggers: Here is your chance to cover Quark Matter 2025 in Frankfurt for ALICE presentations! We would like to encourage you to take pictures of ALICE talks and poster sessions, write a few lines about those, and send them to alice-outreach@cern.ch. We plan to share these through ALICE social media channels and upload them to the CDS photos archive! Your help would be highly appreciated. If you are interested in volunteering, please let us know in advance. If you have any queries, feel free to contact us at ALICE Outreach. |
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- Endorsements by the ALICE Collaboration Board:
- Conference Committee: Andrea Rossi (Padua) from 1 June 2025
- Conference Committee: Andrea Rossi (Padua) from 1 June 2025
- CERN management structure for 2026–2030: By Mark Thomson, Director-General designate of CERN
- Conference Committee Membership: 1 mandate from 1 July 2025 to 31 June 2027 with expertise in HF/DQ.
If you are interested to join Conference Comittee or want to propose someone: please contact CC chairs before 30 April.
- Handbook of Key Legal Responsibilities of Home Institutions in respect of their personnel at CERN, September 2024. This document forms a summary of all existing legal principles relating to the presence of associated members of personnel (MPA) at CERN. The purpose of such handbook is to facilitate the understanding of the existing rules by all stakeholders, including you as the representative of a Home Institution.
Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 16 April (mini-week)
- 14 May (extraordinary)
- 11 June(mini-week)
- 9 July (extraordinary -> presentation of exceptional planned Run 3 preliminaries for initial stages in September, one week after OO run)
- 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 11 Apr 2025, 11:00, 13/2-005 (CERN): "ALICE ITS3 - A bent wafer-scale monolithic pixel detector" by Alex Kluge
- BE Seminars, Friday 11 Apr 2025, 16:30: "Longitudinal beam observation along the CERN complex" by Amaury Beeckman
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 15 Apr 2025, 11:00: "Probing baryon-meson dynamics with Lambda and Cascade decays to three-body states at LHCb" by Dr Luis Miguel Garcia Martin (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 16 Apr 2025, 14:00: "Anti-matter in Cosmic Rays as a Dark Matter probe" by Prof. Fiorenza Donato (Torino University)
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 17 Apr 2025, 13:30: "New physics within the Standard Model (?) – the case for electroweak ηw-meson" by Prof. Archil Kobakhidze
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
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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
- After the closing of the ATLAS cavern was finished on Monday, the beam commissioning started on Tuesday with first circulating beam established after a few hours. Afterwards the machine started carrying out the commission program with the first ramp on Wednesday.
During the next week the program will continue.
- Next week Thursday (17 April) the first stable beams at injection energy are planned and at full energy beginning of May.
- Preparation in ALICE:
- Until the start of beam commissioning ALICE continued recording of COSMICS data for alignment. Finally, more than 310 hours of good data could be collected. With the start of the beam commissioning ALICE was moved to Super Safe state and running of replay data for system studies was carried out. The ramp up of the ALICE magnet is planned for next week Monday.
- Until the start of beam commissioning ALICE continued recording of COSMICS data for alignment. Finally, more than 310 hours of good data could be collected. With the start of the beam commissioning ALICE was moved to Super Safe state and running of replay data for system studies was carried out. The ramp up of the ALICE magnet is planned for next week Monday.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
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SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- QCD Evolution 2025, Jefferson Lab,USA, 19-23 May, abstract deadline 5 May
- IML2025, 7th IML Workshop on Machine Learning at the LHC, CERN, 19-23 May, abstract deadline 20 April
- 23rd Conference on Flavor Physics and CP Violation (FPCP 2025), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 2-6 June, abstract deadline 12 May
- 15th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2025), Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 8 June, abstract deadline 31 March
- 21st International Conference on QCD in Extreme Conditions (XQCD 2025) University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland, 2-4 July, abstract deadline 24 April
- 2025 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2025), Marseille France (central Submission), 7-11 July, abstract deadline 15 April, Contact PWG conveneers for abstract submission
- Fifth MODE Workshop on Differentiable Programming for Experiment Design, Kolumbari, Crete, 8-13 June.
- 21st Rencontres du Vietnam: Flavour Physics Conference 2025, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, 17-23 August, abstract deadline 30 April
- 4th African Conference on Fundamental and Applied Physics (ACP2025), Lomé, Togo, 14-20 September, abstract deadline 31 March Invitation to submit ALICE abstracts
- 6th European Nuclear Physics Conference (EuNPC2025), Caen France, 22-26 September, abstract deadline 15 April, Invitation to submit ALICE abstracts, in particular to young members
- Initial Stages 2025, Taipei, 7-12 September, abstract deadline 20 April, Contact PWG conveneers for abstract submission
- 15th International QCD@LHC Workshop (QCD@LHC 2025), Stony Brook,USA, 8-12 September, abstract deadline 1 May
SCHOOLS
- COMETA training school: ML4Physics@Ljubljana,Slovenia, 26 June, registration deadline 4 May
- The XXIII Bonaudi-Chiavassa Int. School of Particle Detector, Cogne, Italy, 23-27 June. Registration deadline 20 June
- 46th CERN School of Computing, Lund, Sweden, 6-19 July, registration deadline 9 April
- Parton Showers and Resummation School 2025, CERN, 7-11 July, registration deadline 25 April
- Quantum Chromodynamics and multidimensional hadron structure”, School, Orsay, France, 7-11 July, registration deadline 15 May
- 8th edition of the international Summer School series INFIERI (INtelligent signal processing for FrontIEr Research and Industry) in Pisa Italy, 1-13 September, registraction deadline 15 April
- The XXIII Bonaudi-Chiavassa Int. School of Particle Detector, Cogne, Italy, 23-27 June. Registration deadline 20 June
- International School of Nuclear Physics, 46th Course: QCD under extreme conditions - present and future, Erice, Sicily, 17-21 September 2025. Call for abstracts submission deadline: 1 July 2025.
- "Machine Learning for Physics school", University of Ljubljana, 26 June - 2 July, Registration deadline 4 May
- International Summer School of QCD 2025, IJCLab, Orsay, 6-12 Jul 2025, Application deadline 15 May.
- GRASPA2025 Summer School in Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Annecy, France, 16 July, registration deadline 5 May
- Summer School on Advanced Artificial Intelligence for precision High Energy Physics (AIHEP), Como, Italy, 14-25 July, Registration deadline: 13 April
- DRD1 Gaseous Detectors School 2025, Bonn, Germany, 17-24 Sep, Registration open.
Upcoming major conferences
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Florian, Rohaan):
- Following the LHC-wide mental health survey conducted in 2023, which was developed by the ALICE Junior representatives, the ALICE Diversity office and Sarah Speziali, we are happy to announce that the results of the survey are finally analyzed and publicly available as a combined CMS and ALICE public note:
Assessing the mental health state of LHC scientists (ALICE-PUBLIC-2025-001,CMS NOTE-2025/001)
The note contains answers from all four LHC experiments, and was not only limited to junior members of the collaborations. We thank everyone who participated and hope that the note will serve as a basis for future initiatives.
- 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.
- Following the LHC-wide mental health survey conducted in 2023, which was developed by the ALICE Junior representatives, the ALICE Diversity office and Sarah Speziali, we are happy to announce that the results of the survey are finally analyzed and publicly available as a combined CMS and ALICE public note:
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE visits
- Saturday 5 April 2025
- 1st Secondary School of Metamorfosi, Athens, Greece
- Artedistagione, Italy
- The Wesley Crushers, Italy
- Alice member’s friends, Poland
- Sunday 6 April 2025
- MADAL High School, Türkiye
- Tuesday 8 April 2025
- 3 LO RZESZOW, Poland
- 2nd High School of Thermi Giorgos Ioannou, Greece
- Wednesday 9 April 2025
- Wardle Academy, UK
- JCB Academy, UK
- Thursday 10 April 2025
- 24th General Lyceum of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Zonguldak Borsa High School, Türkiye
- VIP visit : Madame Dominique Voynet, Députée et Madame Anne-Catherine Loisier, Sénatrice, Représentants de l'Office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques (OPECST), République française
- Friday 11 April 2025
- St. Thomas d Aquin Oullins, France
- 1st Junior High School of Nea Moudania, Greece
- Kantonsschule Hohe Promenade, Switzerland
- Student from Kharkiv, Ukraine
- Saturday 5 April 2025
- ALICE virtual visits:
- Saturday 5 April 2025 and Sunday 6 April 2025 ALICE virtual visits for Greek High School Teachers
- Friday 11 April 2025 Incontro con i Licei Scientifico e Classico "Galilei-Moro" di Manfredonia
- ALICE Masterclasses
- Thursday 10 April 2025 ALICE Masterclasses in Sarajevo, Constantine, Sofia and Puebla
- Thursday 10 April 2025 ALICE Masterclasses in Sarajevo, Constantine, Sofia and Puebla
- Recent Social Media 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
- Work Well Feel Well: Emotions: forces for transformation: Part eight of the Work Well Feel Well series looks at how to acknowledge and manage our emotions!
- 25 by ’25 Gender Diversity Progress:
The latest data shows remarkable progress toward the 25% gender diversity target, originally deemed unattainable by experts due to low staff turnover. We are now less than 0.5% away from the goal! A special thank you to Hiring Managers for their dedication to “conscious hiring” over the past years. With a diverse feeder pool of students and grads, we are optimistic that this will result in increased gender diversity among staff in the medium and long term. More info ....
- D&I Volunteer Networks:
- SNAC (Neurodiversity) Network:
The network, set to officially launch in Q1 2025, already has over 60 members. Recent feedback from a participant highlighted the value of connecting with others who share similar neurodivergent traits.
- Coordinator position open for The Network for persons with Disability:
The role involves acting as a contact point for disability-related questions, participating in Diversity & Inclusion Roundtable meetings, and monitoring projects aimed at improving working conditions for people with disabilities at CERN. Please contact Jean-Yves Le-Meur for more details.
- SNAC (Neurodiversity) Network:
- 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
Please refer to Job Announcements link for details.
Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!