ALICE Newsletter No. 414
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No.414,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
53 Billion lead-ion Collisions in Run3: A New Era of DiscoveryCERN News (15 June 2026): Final collisions, new horizonsInstagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X |
- Hard Probes 2026, 21-26 June 2026, Nashville, USA
- Hard Probes 2026 rehearsals, 15-19 June 2026
- ALICE UPC Workshop: Katowice, Poland, 15-19 June 2026
- ALICE Mini Week, 29 Jun - 3 July
- ALICE Week, 20-24 Jul 2026
- 7th ALICE Upgrade Week: Calaserena Resort, Geremeas, Cagliari, 14-18 September 2026
- ALICE Physics Week 2026 in Wuhan, 12–16 Oct 2026
- ALICE Calendar 2026
- ALICE approvals calendar for 2026
- 2027 ALICE Meetings Calendar
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
ALICE 3 - approval of TDR phase At the CERN Research Board meeting on 15 June, formal approval was granted for the ALICE collaboration to proceed to the Technical Design Report (TDR) phase for the ALICE 3 upgrade. This represents an important milestone in our journey toward realizing ALICE 3, following the Expression of Interest in 2019, the Letter of Intent in 2022, the scoping document in 2025, the many LHCC reviews, and extensive discussions with the funding agencies. Onward to the TDRs! |
UP Bucharest - Tier 1 site
Sincere congratulations to our colleagues at the University POLITEHNICA Bucharest (UPB) on this remarkable achievement and on being officially recognized by the governing board as the 7th WLCG Tier-1 site for the ALICE experiment. |
 CERN News: ALICE’s upgraded detector showcases its beauty |
 ALICE UPC Workshop, 15–19 Jun 2026 University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland Organizers: Szymon Pulawski, Simone Ragoni, Marta Urbaniak |
- Final collisions, new horizons: After 12 years in operation, a record amount of data and thousands of scientific results, the LHC is taking a break. It will be transformed into the HiLumi LHC, a better-performing machine
- Jets boost nuclear coalescence: CERN Courier Energy Frontier Jun-Jul 2026
- Q&A with CERN’s Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Shaping the future of non-collider physics at CERN
- Machine Learning for Enhancing Data Reconstruction and Simulation in ALICE
- Accelerator Report: An important upgrade to the PS radiofrequency system and a heavy‑ion run in full swing: Roderik Bruce, Alex Huschauer and Matteo Solfaroli
- The CERN Council decided to update the European Strategy for Particle Physics
- "Inclusion Matters: CERN’s new participatory inclusion initiative" A new “Inclusion Matters.” initiative invites the CERN community to co-create 50 visible and tangible inclusion actions by 2030
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar, Friday 19 Jun 2026, 11:00: "BASE-STEP: Transporting antiprotons in an open autonomous Penning trap system" by Marcel Leonhardt (Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf (DE)), Christian Smorra (Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf (DE))
- Gearing up for Future Colliders — School on High-Precision Calculations for Future Lepton Colliders, 22–26 Jun 2026, CERN
- EP Seminar, Tuesday 23 Jun 2026, 11:00: "First measurement of mixing-induced CP violation in B0→π0π0 decays" by Mirco Dorigo (INFN Trieste)
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 24 Jun 2026, 11:30: "Hunting for new physics with LSS and linear cosmology" by Salvatore Bottaro (Tel Aviv University and Weizmann Institute)
- Micro-Talks, Friday 26 Jun 2026, 14:00 (Zoom): "Stories that Matter: The Art of Purposeful Storytelling"
- BE Seminars, Friday 26 Jun 2026, 16:00: "Crab Cavities in the HL-LHC: Beam Dynamics Challenges and Implications" by Andrea Fornara (CERN)
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
- LHC and ALICE
- LHC completed the 2026 PbPb run on Sunday morning, and it is now proceeding with the High-Intensity Machine Development phase. 1.96 nb-1 were delivered in ALICE, for a total of 1.83 nb-1 recorded. Now that the data taking is over, ALICE is being kept SUPERSAFE with ITS OFF, and some sub detectors have been already switched off. On Wednesday, a software upgrade was performed, while on Thursday, during an access, some standalone activity will be carried out by individual detectors.
- LHC completed the 2026 PbPb run on Sunday morning, and it is now proceeding with the High-Intensity Machine Development phase. 1.96 nb-1 were delivered in ALICE, for a total of 1.83 nb-1 recorded. Now that the data taking is over, ALICE is being kept SUPERSAFE with ITS OFF, and some sub detectors have been already switched off. On Wednesday, a software upgrade was performed, while on Thursday, during an access, some standalone activity will be carried out by individual detectors.
- Run Manager (15-20 June 2026): Sahil UPADHYAYA
Sahil Upadhyaya is a physicist at IFJ PAN, Kraków, and a member of the ALICE FIT detector group. He is also active within PWG-DQ, where he works on measurements of the low-mass Drell–Yan process at forward rapidity using the capabilities of the ALICE Muon Arm (MFT, MCH, and MID) during LHC Runs 3 and 4.
Since joining ALICE in 2023, he has been actively involved in the maintenance and operation of the FIT detectors. During this period, he served as the FIT System Run Coordinator (SRC) in 2025 and currently serves as the FIT Deputy SRC in 2026. Since January 2025, he has also been the technical coordinator of the FIT software.
Over the years, he has participated in operations at Point 2 through numerous DCS and SL shifts, and this will be his first mandate as Run Manager. During this mandate, Sahil will oversee the final phase of the 2026 running period as well as the concluding stage of LHC Run 3, including the High-Intensity beam tests.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Hard Probes 2026, 21-26 June, Nashville, USA
- 2026 European school of high-energy physics, 19 June to 2 July, Ostróda, Poland
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- QCD 26: 29th High-Energy Physics International Conference in Quantum Chromodynamics, 20-24 Jul, Montpellier, France
- Call open for ALICE highlight talk + other contributions (deadline 20 Jun)
- Call open for ALICE highlight talk + other contributions (deadline 20 Jun)
- Strong and Electro-Weak Matter 2026, 17-21 Aug, Helsinki, Finland
- International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics 2026 (ISMD 2026), 19-21 Aug, Chungly, Taiwan
- Call open for plenary talks (deadline 11 Jul)
- Call open for plenary talks (deadline 11 Jul)
- XV International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2026), 19-30 Aug, Crete, Greece
- Call open for oral presentations for PWG overviews, detectors and specific upgrades subjects + outreach talks (deadline 20 Jun)
- Call open for oral presentations for PWG overviews, detectors and specific upgrades subjects + outreach talks (deadline 20 Jun)
- 9th Conference on Micropattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGD2026), 31 Aug - 4 Sep, Prague, Czechia
- 14th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors (PSD14), 1-4 Sep, London, UK
- NSTAR 2026 - The 15th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons 7-11 Sep, Seville Spain
- 12th International Workshop on Semiconductor Pixel Detectors for Particles and Imaging PIXEL2026, 8-12 Sep, Miyazaki,Japan
- Emmi Workshop: Light Ion Collisions 2026, 21-25 Sep, Heidelberg, Germany
- Call open for overview talk on recent experimental results from light-ion collision systems + one to three abstracts for short contributions (deadline 1 Jul)
- Call open for overview talk on recent experimental results from light-ion collision systems + one to three abstracts for short contributions (deadline 1 Jul)
- 16th International QCD@LHC Workshop (QCD@LHC 2026) , 28 Sep - 2 Oct, Oxford, UK
SCHOOLS
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21-26 Jun 2026 |
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30 July - 5 Aug 2026 |
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21 - 27 Mar 2027 |
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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.
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE visits this week:
- Saturday 13 June 2026
- ALICE member’s friend, France
- Sunday 14 June 2026
- summer students, USA
- Wednesday 10 June 2026
- ALICE member’s friend, Lithuania
- Thursday 18 June 2026
- stagiaires, France
- Friday 19 June 2026
- FCC visitors, Greece; stagiaires Lycée Ferney, France
- Saturday 13 June 2026
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- 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
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Building on the 25 by’25 momentum, the Diversity & Inclusion Programme has launched Inclusion Matters, featuring 50 Inc. — a plan to co-create 50 practical actions that improve inclusion over the next five years. Already, 20 proposals have been submitted, including ideas to improve accessibility, create quiet zones, increase women speakers at events, use more inclusive language, and visibly support the Pride community. Read more in the CERN Bulletin You can take part by submitting your own proposal or contacting the ALICE Diversity Office: alice-diversity-office@cern.ch |
- "E-learning course “Ethics at CERN” for all CERN personnel":
To ensure that everyone is aware of the guidelines of our ethical framework, the HR Department has developed an e-learning course entitled “Ethics at CERN”, which is available in English and French on the CERN Learning Hub. As of now, this course is mandatory for all members of the CERN personnel. Ethics at CERN
- "Inclusion Matters: CERN’s new participatory inclusion initiative" A new “Inclusion Matters.” initiative invites the CERN community to co-create 50 visible and tangible inclusion actions by 2030.
- 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