The ALICE Newsletter No. 299
No.299,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- Call for the ALICE Thesis Award 2023-2024 (deadline: 5 April 2024): All collaborators who will have defended their doctoral thesis, written in English, between 1 April 2023, and 31 March 2024, are invited to consider applying. In case the candidate is not an ALICE member anymore, the supervisor can submit the application on her/his behalf.
The deadline to submit applications is 5 April 2024.
- 1st "ALICE 3" Days: 25-27 Mar 2024 at CERN: The "ALICE 3" Days are devoted to a general overview of the ALICE 3 detector design and scoping, updates on the plans and R&D for all its subsystems.
- Blood donation campaign on Tuesday 26 March from 8:30 to 16:30, CERN Building 29
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Recent PhDs in ALICE. Congratulations to our new Doctor:
- Dr Oskari Saarimäki
Thesis title: Dijet invariant mass spectrum in pp and p-Pb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 5.02 TeV
CDS: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2863473?ln=en
Exam date: 27 June 2023, Jväskylä University
Supervisors: Sami Räsänen, Dong Jo Kim
Service work: Event plane resolution with the Fast Interaction Trigger detector
- Dr Oskari Saarimäki
- Accelerator Report: Beams are circulating in the LHC: On 8 March, three days ahead of schedule, the first proton beam was injected into the LHC; 20 minutes later, the second beam was injected, circulating in the opposite direction.
- CERN70: The dark side of the muon
- CERN70 public event: The virtuous circle of knowledge and innovation, Thursday 18 Apr 2024
- CERN LHCC and Research Board approve FoCal and ITS 3 projects: Congratulations!
- Technical Design Report of the ALICE Forward Calorimeter (FoCal)
- Technical Design report for the ALICE Inner Tracking System 3 - ITS3 ; A bent wafer-scale monolithic pixel detector
- Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan 2024 Town Meeting, Bucharest, 15-17 April, 2024:
The aim is to bring together the Nuclear Physics community in Europe to discuss the long-range perspectives in our field and decide how best to develop it in the next ten to fifteen years.
- CERN Alumni event: Moving Out of Academia to Machine Learning: 26 April 2024 14:30 - 16:30 CEST
- Next Physics Forum Dates for 2024
- 10 April (during mini-week)
- 15 May (during SQM+LHCP approvals)
- 19 June (during mini-week)
- 21 August (during Hard Probes previews)
- 2 October (extra-ordinary)
- 6 November (mini-week)
- 4 December (during physics week)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- CD Seminars, Monday 18 Mar 2024, 14:00: "Flavour physics: status and prospects" by Marzia Bordone (CERN)
- CERN Tape Archive Workshop: CTA 2024, 18-19 March 2024
- ECFA meeting on e+e- to ZH angular measurements: Monday 18 Mar 2024
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 19 Mar 2024, 11:00: "Heavy scalars aim for the top in the ATLAS experiment" by Janna Katharina Behr (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 19 Mar 2024, 14:00: "Cool Surprises Near Cool Horizons" by Jorge Santos (Cambridge U.)
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 20 Mar 2024, 11:30: "The Ups and Downs of Early Dark Energy solutions to the Hubble tension" by Dr Vivian Poulin (LUPM, CNRS & U. de Montpellier, France)
- EP-IT Data Science Seminars, Wednesday 20 Mar 2024, 11:00: "Anomaly detection for new physics searches in dijet events at CMS" by Benedikt Maier (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 20 Mar 2024, 14:00: "Anatomy of LHC Collisions - And Future Challenges" by Prof. Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))
- CERN Colloquium, Wednesday 20 Mar 2024, 16:30: "Status and Prospects of the JUNO neutrino experiment" Wednesday 20 Mar 2024, 16:30
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 21 Mar 2024, 11:00: "SUSY: from prompt to long-lived (LLP)" by Javier Montejo Berlingen (The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) (ES)), Kazuki Sakurai (University of Warsaw)
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 21 Mar 2024, 13:30: "Compact Objects" by Loris Del Grosso (La Sapienza University of Rome)
- ISOLDE Seminar, Thursday 21 Mar 2024, 16:00: "World’s first electron scattering off online-produced radioactive isotope" by Toshimi Suda (Tohoku University)
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
Title | Internal | Submission date |
26 Feb 2024 |
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24 Jan 2024 |
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
- Shift booking: Several critical shift blocks are still available, in particular:
- SL blocks from 26 March to April 8 - Stable Beams at injection energy expected during the shift block!!!
- ECS blocks from 26 March to 31 March - Stable Beams at injection energy expected during the shift block!!!
Please book via SAMS.
- ALICE Run Manager (18 - 31 March 2024): Krystian Roslon
Krystian is a young physicist from WUT in Poland. He joined ALICE in 2026, where he performed data analysis with femtoscopy techniques. In 2022 Krystian joined the FIT team and contributed substantially to the development of the unified slow control of the three FIT detectors, and to FV0 in particular. In addition, he was appointed as FIT Deputy System Run Coordinator in 2022 and 2024, and FIT System Run Coordinator in 2023. As such, he has a strong experience in ALICE Operations and data taking.
During his mandate, Krystian will supervise the finalisation of the commissioning with SYNTHETIC and REPLAY runs and the orchestration of the ALICE operations together with the ongoing LHC commissioning. Krystian will also have the challenge to organise the data taking with the first proton-proton collisions of the year, at 900 GeV, expected during next week. Additional fills with stable beams at 900 GeV might be provided during the Easter weekend, when we are still critically missing shifters!
- LHC and P2 News:
- P2 operations: The global commissioning and validation of central systems is continuing. The shift crew is focusing on the global data taking with SYNTHETIC and REPLAY runs, while the experiment is kept in a safe state, compatible with the LHC commissioning activities. Today we expect to turn on the solenoid and dipole magnets. All the operations crew is eagerly waiting for the first stable beams expected for next week!
- LHC commissioning: The LHC commissioning is well on track. The first circulating beams were established as early as last Friday 8 March, and the beams have been accelerated to top energy already on the day after. The LHC is now performing all the commissioning steps required to reach the first collisions, which are expected as early as next Monday. First stable beams at injection energy are expected around 21 March.
- P2 operations: The global commissioning and validation of central systems is continuing. The shift crew is focusing on the global data taking with SYNTHETIC and REPLAY runs, while the experiment is kept in a safe state, compatible with the LHC commissioning activities. Today we expect to turn on the solenoid and dipole magnets. All the operations crew is eagerly waiting for the first stable beams expected for next week!
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 2nd Workshop on Quarkonia meet Dark Matter (QMDM 2024), Munich, Germany, 18-22 March
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Joint Meeting of APS Division of Particles & Fields and the Phenomenology Symposium (DPF-Pheno 2024), 13-17 May, abstract deadline 1 April
- 20th International Conference on Calorimetry in Particle Physics (CALOR2024), Tsukuba, Japan, 19-24 May, abstract deadline 15 March
- FPCP, Flavour Physics and CP Violation Conference 2024, Bangkok, Thailand, 27-31 May, no deadline, Invitation for a plenary talk on Heavy Flavour and future (ALICE3); Contact PWGHF/DQ/Upgrade coordinators, CC chairs.
- International Workshop on Partial Wave Analyses and Advanced Tools for Hadron Spectroscopy (PWA13/ATHOS8), Williamsburg,Virginia, US, 28 May - 1 June, abstract deadline 17 March
- 15th International Conference on Beauty, Charm, Hyperons in Hadronic Interactions (BEACH 2024), Charleston, USA, 3-7 June, abstract deadline 16 April, Invitations for plenary talks and poster presentations, contact CC chairs
- QCD at Work 2024, Trani, Italy, 18-21 June, abstract deadline 1 April, possibility of several parallel talk. Invitation for one extended talk (ALICE only or multi-exp.), contact CC chairs.
- 22nd International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2024), Puerto Vallarta Mexico, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 1 April.
- QNP 2024 — The 10th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics, Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 15 March
- QCD@LHC 2024, Freiburg, Germany 7-11 Oct, abstract deadline 15 March
- XVIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 19–24 Aug 2024,
abstract deadline 29 April
- EXA/LEAP 2024* International Conference on Exotic Atoms and Related Topics and Conference on Low Energy Antiprotons, Vienna, Austria, 26-30 August, abstract deadline 14 April.
- XVII international Conference on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors (RPC2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 9-13 Sep 2024, abstract deadline 1 June.
- 8th International Conference on Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors, MPGD2024, Hefei, China, 14-18 Oct, abstract deadline 24 June.
SCHOOLS
- The Inverted CSC (iCSC), 15–18 Apr 2024 at CERN, deadline: 12 April
- INFN School of Statistics, Paestum, Italy, 12 May, registration deadline 30 March
- Summer School "From Hadronic Structure to Heavy-Ion Collisions", Orsay, France, 9-15 June, registration deadline 31 April
- MCnet Summer School, 10–14 Jun 2024, CERN, registration deadline: 15 April
- QCD Master class 2024 school, Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer, France, 23 June - 5 July, registration deadline 15 March
- III Joint ICTP-SAIFR/ICTP-Trieste Summer School on Particle Physics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 24 June, registration deadline 20 April
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Special announcement and dates of major conferences in 2024:
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Florian, Luca):
- New junior representative: Bianca Sabiu has been elected as a junior representative! Bianca is a first-year PhD student from the University of Bologna, working on the timing layer for ALICE 3.
- Carolina’s term as Junior Representative ends on 17 March 2024. We thank Carolina for all the amazing work and commitment to the role and wish her all the best in her future endeavours!!!
- Junior's Day, 7 March 2024 followed by Social events:
- ALICE Theses website
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis.
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE Visits this week:
- Saturday 9 March 2024
- The Skinners’ School, UK
- Hellenic College, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Prva rijecka hrvatska gimnazija, Croatia
- Tuesday 12 March 2024
- KATS, South Korea
- Wednesday 13 March 2024
- The Long Eaton School, UK
- Colleagues, France
- Thursday 14 March 2024
- Art School of Gerakas, Greece
- Friday 15 March 2024
- 1st General Lyceum of Vrilissia, Greece
- Saturday 9 March 2024
- ALICE virtual visits this week:
- Friday 8 March 2024 virtual visit to ALICE for Particle Therapy masterclasses in Montenegro
- Friday 8 March 2024 virtual visit to ALICE for Particle Therapy masterclasses in Montenegro
- International Masterclasses 2024:
- Tuesday 12 March 2024 ALICE masterclasses were held in Nantes, Salerno, Bologna and Bari
- The ALICE Collaboration at CERN is now on LinkedIn! Come and join us. The page will be dedicated to news from physics, experiment, people, as well as to the ALICE Alumni community!
DIVERSITY
- International Women’s Day 2024 (Friday 8 March 2024): ALICE celebrates International Women’s Day 2024 by highlighting the key role women play in helping achieve our science goals. Look up @aliceexperiment on Social Media! to view reels from some of our junior and senior members as they speak about thier role in the collaboration and the ways in which they contribute to making ALICE a successful experiment.
- New webpage on ethics at CERN
- 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!