ALICE Newsletter No. 431
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No.431,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
After an exciting and very productive week, APW 2026 draws to a successful close today at CCNU, Wuhan, China. The workshop brought together 107 registered participants along with many additional colleagues from CCNU for a week of stimulating discussions on ongoing analysis, new results, as well as future prospects with lots of exchanges of ideas. |
The Public Outreach Program on Tuesday evening was very stimulating, attracting more than 350 students with a very lively question-and-answer session |
- CERN LHC Seminar, Tuesday 20 Oct 2026, 11:00: "Hyperon (Λ) polarization along the beam axis in Pb-Pb collisions at sNN=√5.36 TeV" Junlee Kim (Fudan University (CN))
- ALICE Physics Week 2026 in Science Hall, CCNU Wuhan , 12-16 October
- Timetable
- Outreach events during the ALICE Physics Week 2026:
- Public Outreach event: "Our Mysterious Universe: A Journey with CERN" featuring Pengfei Zhuang, Kai Schweda and Hengtong Ding
- ALICE Masterclass with Simone Ragoni
- ALICE/CERN Outreach booth
- Public Outreach event: "Our Mysterious Universe: A Journey with CERN" featuring Pengfei Zhuang, Kai Schweda and Hengtong Ding
- Timetable
- ALICE Visit Restrictions: No underground visits during 29 September – 28 October:
(opening of Low Beta platform – passage of LHC magnets)
- O2 Analysis Tutorial: 16–20 Nov 2026
- ALICE Calendar 2026
- ALICE approvals calendar for 2026
- ALICE Calendar 2027
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- "The SPS turns 50" CERN is celebrating 50 years of its second-largest accelerator, a period marked by discoveries, innovation and pioneering experiments.
- "CERN congratulates Nobel Prize winner Francis Halzen"
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- QCD Seminars, Monday 19 Oct 2026, 14:00: "The Lund jet plane: visualizing jet showers using the jets-within-the-jets" by Cristian Baldenegro (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
- BE Seminars, Friday 16 Oct 2026, 16:00: "Soft Robots for Hard-to-Reach Places: Design and Deployment at CERN" by Mr Harald Minde Hansen (CERN (BE-CEM-MRO))
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 21 Oct 2026, 11:30: "A Falsifiable Fingerprint of Cosmological Stasis: Detecting Imprints of Stasis in the Inflationary Gravitational Wave Background" by Anne-Katherine Burns (UC Irvine)
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 22 Oct 2026, 11:00: "Dead-cone effect in b-jets [LHCb, TH]" by Andrea Ghira (TUM), Manuel Ramirez Garcia (University of Michigan (US))
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 22 Oct 2026, 13:30: "All-Order Helicity Selection Rules in EFTs" by Luigi Brescian
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
 LS3 Activities at Point 2: D2 dipole removed from the LHC tunnel through the ALICE access pit for LS3
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CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
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SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
| Event | Location | Date | Abstract deadline | Speaking Oppotunities |
| HEPMAD26: 16th High-Energy Physics Conference | Antananarivo, Madagascar |
26-31 Oct | ||
| HF-HNC 2026: 10th International Symposium on Heavy Flavor Production in Hadron and Nuclear Collisions | Bloomington, Indiana, USA |
26-29 Oct |
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| Quark–Gluon Dynamics in the Nuclear Medium: (An ECT Workshop) | Trento, Italy | 9-13 Nov | 30 Sep | |
| 26th Zimányi Winter Workshop on Heavy Ion Physics (Zimanyi 26) | Budapest, Hungary | 30 Nov - 4 Dec | 28 Sep |
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| Kruger 2026: Discovery Physics at the LHC | Kruger National Park, South Africa | 30 Nov |
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| UPC 2026 - 3rd International Workshop on the Physics of Ultra-Peripheral Collisions |
Playa del Carmen, Mexico | 7-12 Dec |
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| MIAMI 2026 Physics Conference | Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA | 11-17 Dec |
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| HEPNP 2027 - 10th International Conference on High Energy, Particles and Nuclear Physics in the LHC Era | Valparaiso, Chile | 18-22 Jan |
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SCHOOLS
- 3rd CERN School of Computing on IT Services 2026, CERN, 9-13 Nov. Application closes: 12 Oct
- 2027 ECFA Winter Instrumentation School in Particle Physics, CERN, 1-12 Feb 2027, Registration deadline: 15 Oct
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Jeju Island, Korea |
1 - 27 Mar 2027 |
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Jyväskylä, Finland |
7 - 11 June 2027 |
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Bucharest, Romania |
26 – 30 July |
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Bucharest, Romania |
13 – 17 September |
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Hefei, China |
17 – 23 October |
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior Representatives (Sara, Davide, Meiyi)
- "Supporting early careers beyond CERN"
- 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.
- ALICE Juniors website
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE Visit Restrictions: No underground visits during these periods:
- 29 September – 28 October: opening Low Beta platform – passage of LHC magnets
- 19-20 October: smoke detection central replacement (in the shadow of the one above)
- Public Outreach Calendar: Visits
- ALICE Visits this week:
- Saturday 10 October 2026
- 6 visits on the occasion of “Fête de la Science”
- Sunday 11 October 2026
- ALICE member’s family, Germany
- Monday 12 October 2026
- High Society of Reptiloids Visit, Germany; University of Bergen, Norway
- Tuesday 12 October 2026
- ALICE member’s friends, Italy
- Wednesday 14 October 2026
- 1 lo Zielona Gora, Poland; Lomalinja Tekniikka, Finland
- Thursday 15 October 2026
- Lycée de Nantua, France; colleague’s friends, Germany; CineClub guests, France
- Friday 16 October 2026
- Group from KIRD (Korea Institute of Human Resources Development in Science and Technology), South Korea
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Recent Social Media Highlights:
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- Saturday 10 October 2026
- Whirlpools in the perfect fluid
- ALICE Upgrade Week 2026 and Outreach in Sardinia
- Collective flow in hypernuclei
- Congratulations to Laura Šerkšnytė
- Congratulations to ALICE member Pritam Chakraborty
- ALICE at ICHEP 2026
- Unboxing a particle detector | ALICE Experiment at CERN
- ALICE Week: July 2026
- UPB Tier1
- Oxygen-Oxygen collisions
- ALICE visits
- Congratulations to Barbara Erazmus!
- LHC Live from ALICE
- Silvia on Social Media on the start of the heavy-ioin run!
- A new chapter of ALICE physics at LHCP 2026
- Building bridges towards ALICE 3: Japan
- 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
DIVERSITY
- 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