ALICE Newsletter No. 316
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No.316,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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Congratulations to the ALICE Thesis Awardees 2024:
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- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 16 Jul 2024, 11:00, Council Chamber (CERN): "A double-slit experiment at the femtometer scale with ALICE" by Andrea Giovanni Riffero (Universita e INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica Torino, Italy)
- ALICE Week: 8-12 July 2024
- ICHEP 2024 rehearsals:15 July
- ALICE Upgrade Week, 7-11 October 2024 at IFJ PAN, Krakow: Registration open!
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Endorsements by the ALICE Collaboration Board (Meeting on 12 July 2024):
- PWG Conveners:
- PWG-CF: Qiye Shou (Shanghai), 1 Aug 2024 - 31 July 2026
- PWG-JE: Raymond Ehlers (Berkeley), 1 Oct 2024 - 30 Sept 2026
- PWG-UD: Roman Lavicka (Vienna), 1 Oct 2024 - 30 Sept 2026
Thanks to Daniel Tapia Takaki, Laura Havener, and Katarina Gajdosova for their work as outgoing PWG conveners.
- Conference Committee members: second term
- Livio Bianchi (Torino) - LF/MM, Nov 2024 - Oct 2026
- Iwona Sputowska (Cracow) - CF, Nov 2024 - Oct 2026
- Valentina Zaccolo (Trieste) - MM/LF, Nov 2024 - Oct 2026
- Klaus Reygers (Heidelberg) - GA/JE, Oct 2024 - Sep 2026
- Editorial board members
- Panos Christakoglou (Nikhef) 2nd term 14 Nov 2024 - 15 Nov 2026
- Laura Havener (Yale) new member 16 Nov 2024 - 15 Nov 2026
Thanks to Ionut Arsene and Joakim Nystrand, as outgoing EB members, for their work.
- New ALICE member institutes: (Welcome to ALICE !)
- Full member: University of Silesia, Poland
- Associate member: INFN Genova, Italy
- Associate member: Kumamoto University, Japan
- PWG Conveners:
- EP Newsletter (24 June 2024): ITS3 and FoCal: Two new subdetectors to extend ALICE’s physics reach
- QM 2023 proceedings are online: EPJ Web of Conferences Volume 296 (2024)
- Coming together to celebrate CERN70 by Luciano Musa
- Invitation to the CERN70 Community Event: Tuesday 17 September 2024, from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. CEST, on the large lawn in front of Restaurant 1 and its surroundings.
- CERN70 Feature Series:
- CERN70: The end of the alphabet (11 July 2024)
- CERN70: A two-stage rocket (27 June 2024)
- CERN70: A gargantuan discovery (13 June 2024)
- CERN70: The world’s first hadron collider (29 May 2024)
- CERN70: An electronic revolution (16 May 2024)
- CERN70: The nucleus as a laboratory
- CERN70: Tracing particles
- CERN70: The dark side of the muon
- CERN70: The heart of CERN’s accelerator chain
- CERN70: A first discovery
- CERN70: The Laboratory takes shape
- CERN70: Foundations for European science
- Next Physics Forum Dates for 2024
- 21 August (during Hard Probes previews)
- 2 October (extra-ordinary)
- 6 November (mini-week)
- 4 December (during physics week)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar - Special Session (EP-RD, AIDAinnova Poster Awards): Friday 12 Jul 2024, 14:00
- Movie Night: "Particle Fever" by Marc Levinson
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 17 Jul 2024, 14:00: "Talk by Amy Nicholson as part of Lattice2024"
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 18 Jul 2024, 11:00: "Photon-induced ditau" by Ilaria Brivio (University & INFN Bologna), Michael Pitt (The University of Kansas (US))
- Detector Seminar, Friday 19 Jul 2024, 11:00: "Technical challenges for the new T2K High Angle TPCs" by Dr Stefano Levorato (INFN Trieste, INFN Padova and CERN)
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
| Title | Internal | Submission date |
| 1 Jul 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 opportunities:
- DCS block: 1 August to 6 August
- SL block: 7 August to 12 August
- SL block: 11 August to 16 August
- SL block: 27 August to 1 September
Shifts booking via SAMS.
- ALICE Run Manager (8 Jul - 21 Jul): Yuanzhe Wang
- LHC and P2 news:
- LHC:
During the past week, the LHC has provided stable proton-proton beams for physics for more than 50% of the time. On Wednesday, the operation was interrupted by a longer recovery cryogenic system in point 8. Further minor interruptions of the beam operations during the week were solved without causing significant downtime. On Monday morning access was granted for the exchange of emulsions in FASER and SND.
The physics production will continue over the weekend and during next week. - P2 operations:
ALICE continues to collect good physics data with high efficiency, regularly above 95% till Sunday morning. On Sunday morning, a trip of the solenoid magnet due to a water leak interrupted the data taking. The leak was fixed during an access on Monday. Another intervention in the system was necessary on Wednesday.
Due to an issue with the CRUs of TPC on Monday, data taking had to be carried out for 2.5 days without the TPC.
Physics data taking continued till the recovery of the cryogenic system on Thursday morning (including TPC).
With the current magnet polarity (+/+), which is set since the technical stop, the recorded integrated luminosity in physics fills is currently of about 4.6 pb-1 (total for both polarities: 17.3 pb-1).
- LHC:
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- School on Modern Techniques in Hadron Spectroscopy (MTHS2024), Bochum, Germany, 15-27 July
- GRASPA 2024 Summer School in Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Annecy, France, 16-23 July
- ICHEP 2024, Prague, Czech Republic, 17-24 July
- 20th International Conference on QCD in Extreme Conditions (XQCD 2024), Lanzhou, China, 17-19 July
- CAARI-SNEAP conference, Fort Worth, Texas, US, 21-26 July
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- New Trends in High-Energy and Low-x Physics: New Trends in HEP, Sfantu Gheorge, Romania, 2 September, abstract deadline 15 July. Invitation for 3 talks and 1 on FOCAL talk, contact conveners.
- ICNFP 2024 — International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics 2024, Kolymbary, Crete, 26 August - 4 September, abstract deadline 5 July, invitation for 1 or 2 highlights talks from ALICE , talk on Upgrades, Review talks, contact conveneers
- Corfu 2024 Workshop on the Standard Model and Beyond, 25 August - 5 September, Corfu, abstract deadline 15 July, opportunities to submit abstracts for 15+5min talks, contact Conveners
- Jet Modification and Hard-Soft Correlations, Tokyo, Japan, 28-29 September, abstract deadline 15 July
- LHC days at Split (Croatia) 30 September - 4 October, abstract deadline for posters 15 Sep. Opportunity for ALICE overwiev talks, contact CC.
- International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD) 2024), Malargüe, Argentina, 23-27 September. Abstract deadline 15 July.
Invitation for 3-4 ALICE talks (13+2min), for MPI and collectivity in small and large systems and jets; Strangeness ehnancement with multiplicity in pp with angular correlations; Long-range angular correlation in low-multiplicity pp collisions —> contact PWG and CC.
- 24th Zimányi school winter workshop on heavy ion physics Budapest, Hungary, 2-6 Dec 2024, abstract deadline 30 Sept
- The 2024 international workshop on the high energy Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), Hangzhou, China, 23–27 Oct, abstract deadline 31 July.
- PHYSTAT Workshop on "Statistics meets ML" in Particle Physics & Astrophysics, Imperial College London, 9–12 Sept 2024, abstract deadline 31 July.
SCHOOLS
- XXXV International School “Francesco Romano” on Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics, Monopoli (Bari), Italy, 6-13 October, registration deadline 31 July
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Dates of upcoming major conferences
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Florian, Luca):
- Luca Quaglia's term as Junior representative ends on 21 July 2024. We really want to thank Luca for all the amazing work and commitment to the role and wish him all the best for future endeavours!!!
- New Junior Representative will be Rohann Deb. Congratulations Rohaan! We are looking forward to working with you.
- ALICE Run 3 Analysis Resources: this has 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.
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE Visits this week:
- Saturday 6 July 2024
- Stanwell School, UK
- The Swan School, UK
- Odense, Denmark
- Tuesday 9 July 2024
- Christ’s School, UK
- ALICE SA-CHPC, South Africa
- Teacher Berufsschule Steyr, Austria
- FCC interns, Germany
- Wednesday 10 July 2024
- Students from Don Bosco Ashalayam, Kolkata, India
- University of Gronigen Honours College, Netherlands
- Esher Sixth form college, UK
- ALICE member’s friend, Russia
- Thursday 11 July 2024
- Othisi, Greece
- Friday 12 July 2024
- Oakwood Park Grammar School, UK
- Mesa de Dialogo, Andorra
- VIP visit : Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Environment, Republic of Cuba
- Saturday 6 July 2024
- The ALICE Collaboration is on LinkedIn! Join us.
DIVERSITY
- CERN Staff Association launches a new Working Group to drive diversity, equity and inclusion
- 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 the Job Announcements link for details.
| Date Listed |
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| 12 Jul | Postdoc position at Baruch (sPHENIX) | The Experimental Nuclear Physics Group at Baruch College, City University of New York. | 25 Aug 2024 |
| 12 Jul | Experimental Physicist (EP-DI-2024-2-LD) | CERN | 1 Sep 2024 |
| 12 Jul | Postdoctoral Fellow in Experimental Particle Physics (CMS) | Boston University | 31 Dec 2024 |
| 12 Jul | Postdoc researcher position (nuclear photonics) | ELI-NP, Romania | 15 Aug 2024 |
| 12 Jul | 10 PhD positions - 'Particle physics at colliders in the LHC precision era' | University of Würzburg | 31 Aug 2024 |
| 12 Jul | PhD Fellowships in Physics | Mainz University | 18 Aug 2024 |
| 12 Jul | Tenure track position in HEP-Experiment | Pont. U. Catolica, Lima, Peru | 30 Aug 2024 |
| 5 Jul | Postdoctoral position - ATLAS | IJCLab IN2P3 laboratory | 16 Sep 2024 |
| 5 Jul | Postdoctoral researcher position in Experimental Astroparticle Physics | Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) | 20 Aug 2024 |
| 5 Jul | Performance Software Engineer | CERN | 4 Aug 2024 |
| 5 Jul | Postdoc in experimental high-energy particle physics (LHCb) | TU Dortmund University | 31 Jul 202 |
| 5 Jul | PhD Program of National Interest in Technologies for fundamental research in Physics and Astrophysics | University of Padua, in collaboration with ten other universities | 25 Jul 2024 |
| 28 Jun | CHEP Junior faculty positions | Indian Institute of Science | 30 Sep 2024 |
| 28 Jun | Postdoctoral Research Associate | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) | 31 Jul 2024 |
| 28 Jun | Postdoctoral Researcher (CMS) | Catholic University of America | 31 Dec 2024 |
| 28 Jun | Postdoctoral Fellow (sPHENIX and ePIC) | Baruch College, City University of New York | 31 Jul 2024 |
| 28 Jun | Control Software Engineer | CERN | 21 Jul 2024 |
| 21 Jun | Marie Curie Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship | University of Zaragoza | 19 Jul 2024 |
| 21 Jun | Research Associate in Particle Physics | Imperial College London | 19 Jul 2024 |
| 21 Jun | Postdoctoral Research Associate (ATLAS) | University of Arizona | 15 Aug 2024 |
| 21 Jun | Postdoctoral Research Associate | University of Bonn | 15 Jul 2024 |
| 21 Jun | Postdoctoral Fellow in Experimental Particle Physics (CMS) | Boston University | 31 Dec 2024 |
| 14 Jun | PhD studentship | University of Warwick | 30 Sep 2024 |
| 14 Jun | Postdoctoral position in hadronic physics | Florida State University | 31 Jul 2024 |
| 31 May | Postdoctoral Fellow | KEK, Tsukuba | 1 Aug 2024 |
| 31 May | Fellowship Applications | University of Southampton | 9 Aug 2024 |
| 24 May | Engineering position for detector development | Valencia University | 31 Dec 2024 |
| 24 May | Postdoctoral Positions in Experimental Particle Physics | The Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IHEP, CAS) | 30 Nov 2024 |
| 17 May | Research Fellow / Software Engineer to be based at CERN, Geneva – The ALICE Experiment at the CERN LHC | The University of Birmingham Contact: Professor David Evans |
1 Oct 2024 |
| 10 May | Scientific Research Specialist | Florida State University | 1 Aug 2024 |
| 10 May | Marie Curie fellowship in LHCb/CODEX-b | Eotvos University | 31 Jul 2024 |
| 10 May | Postdoctoral Researcher – Particle Physics / Rare Decay | TRIUMF | 29 Jul 2024 |
| 3 May | Applied Research Associate for Machine Learning on FPGAs | Brookhaven National Laboratory | 22 Nov 2024 |