ALICE Newsletter No. 380
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No.380,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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ALICE Upgrade Week, Burghausen, Germany |
- ALICE Physics Week: 3-7 Nov 2025 at CERN
- ALICE Week: 8-12 Dec 2025
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Editorial Board Membership (deadline: 10 October 2025): Expertise in PWG-LF, PWG-DQ, PWG-CF, detectors, or ALICE operation is especially welcome. Please contact the EB Chairs if interested.
- Call for new Diversity Office members: If you would like to be considered for membership of the Diversity office, or would like to nominate someone, please contact Kai Schweda and Marco Van Leeuwen, with CC to Sami Räsänen
- Charming energy–energy correlators: CERN Courier Sep-Oct 2025
- ALICE FoCal test at SPS (Sep 2025)
- ALICE Calendar 2026
- "CERN management structure for 2026–2030, part 3" By Mark Thomson (26 Sep 2025)
- "Accelerator Report: LHC performance stays on track and is cruising towards the target" by Rende Steerenberg (3 Oct 2025).
As the 2025 LHC run enters its final ten weeks, strong performance pushes luminosity past 90 inverse femtobarns, while lead-ion preparations are ahead of schedule.
- "European Strategy update enters final straight" By Matthew Chalmers (3 Oct 2025)
- "Preserving particle physics data" By Davide De Biasio
A lot of the science from our accelerators is published long after collisions end, so storing experimental data for future physicists is crucial
- "CERN accelerates medical applications" By Amedeo Habsburg
- A new CERN Community Support Centre (CCSC) branch is opening in the Main Building
- ICFA Instrumentation Prizes Nomination 2026: due on 13 October 2025
- Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 5 November (physics week at CERN)
- 3 December (extraordinary)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- BE Seminars, Friday 10 Oct 2025, 16:00: "Design and validation of a micrometric and adaptable calibration bench for Frequency Scanning Interferometry sensors" by Julia Anna Jeanne Calmels
- QCD Seminars, Monday 13 Oct 2025, 14:00: "A first look at hexagonal bootstrap for QCD scattering amplitudes" by Qinglin Yang (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
- TH String Theory Seminar, 14 Oct 2025, 14:00: "BPS Black Holes in AdS3xS3xS3xS1 and Beyond" by Matthew Heydeman (Harvard University)
- Lattice seminar, Tuesday 14 Oct 2025, 16:00: "Machine learning a FP action for SU(3) gauge theory in 4d" by Urs Wenger (University of Bern)
- KT Seminar: "Optimising cooling and ventilation motors to save energy: How CERN can be used as a sustainability blueprint for other facilities" Tuesday 14 Oct 2025, 16:15 Council Chamber
- "2025 European School of High-Energy Physics" 15–28 Oct 2025
- A&T Seminar, Thursday 16 Oct 2025, 11:00: "ATS Seminar - Accelerator's experiments to probe beam instabilities in blazars' pair jets" by Gianluca Gregori (University of Oxford)
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 16 Oct 2025, 13:30: "Strongly Coupled Theories, Confinement, and Gravitational Waves" by Vazha Loladze (University of Oxford)
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
- Open shift block: please contact RC (alice-rc@cern.ch)
- LHC and ALICE:
- During the last week, the availability of the LHC was very high, with more than 70% time in Stable Beams. The delivered luminosity for ATLAS/CMS exceeds 100/fb. The delivered luminosity in ALICE reached 41/pb
- On Monday morning, a 4-day Machine development period started, which will last till Friday morning. After the machine development is finished, an increase in bunch intensity to 1.7E11 ppb is planned.
- ALICE data taking went smoothly. So far, 40.6/pb were recorded.
- On Friday afternoon, a test of the newly developed neural network-based clusterizer was carried out successfully in physics.
- During machine development, a software update was done, and a few tests were conducted by experts. Additionally, a performance test for Pb-Pb using Replay was done successfully
- During the next week, several software checks during the MD are scheduled.
- Current Run Manager (29 Sep - 12 Oct): Laura Maria Huhta:
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 25th ZIMÁNYI WINTER WORKSHOP ON HEAVY ION PHYSICS, Budapest, Hungary, 1-5 December, abstract deadline 19 October.
Invitation for a review talk contact CC chairs - MIAMI 2025 Physics Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Florida, US, 12-18 Dec 2025, Invitation for a review talk + additional talks contact CC chairs
- Excited QCD 2026 Workshop (EQCD26), Granada, Andalucia, Spain, 8-14 Jan; Abstract deadline 4 Nov. Invitation to submit abstracts, contact CC chairs
- Cracow epiphany Conference 2026, Kraków, Poland. 12–16 January 2026. Deadline: 1 Dec 2025. Invitation for ALICE talks on: (please contact your PWG conveners, or CC chairs)
- ALICE overview talk on HI physics
- Jet production and modification in HI
- Bulk properties of matter in HI
- Recent results from OO/NeNe
- Experimental overview from pp, pPb
- ALICE overview for UPC
- + Young Scientist Sessions
SCHOOLS
- None
Upcoming major conferences
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22-27 Mar 2026 |
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18-22 May 2026 |
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31 May - 5 June 2026 |
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30 July - 5 Aug 2026 |
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior Representatives (Bianca, Rohaan, Sara)
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- 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 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.
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE visits:
- Saturday 4 October 2025
- colleagues’ friends, Romania, Mexico
- Monday 6 October 2025
- colleague’s friends, Canada
- Tuesday 7 October 2025
- Evangelisches Gymnasium Nordhorn, Germany
- visitors from Spain
- Wednesday 8 October 2025
- Dutch Physical Society PWS programme, Netherlands
- 1st General Lyceum of Pyrgos, Greece
- Thursday 9 October 2025
- Conseil d’Architecture, d’Urbanisme & de l’Environment de Haute Savoie, France
- AEI Enedis, France; International school of Toulouse, France
- Friday 10 October 2025 Holy Family High School, UK
- Saturday 4 October 2025
- ONLINE EVENTS: Friday 26 September 2025: European Researchers’ Night
- Instagram Live with Marco Van Leuwen, Tapan Nayak and Simone Ragoni
- Virtual visit to ALICE for local event at the National Polytechnic of Athens and Greek schools connected online
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- Instagram Live with Marco Van Leeuwen (European Researchers' Night: Friday 26 September 2025)
- Shape-shifting collisions probe secrets of early Universe
- Special #LHC seminar on 16 September 2025
- Physics with small ions: jet quenching in Oxygen collisions at the LHC
- Geometry-driven flow in collisions of Oxygen and Neon ions at the LHC
- ALICE at Initial Stages 2025
- Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Secretary of India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST)
- Visit of His Excellency Mr. Rudy Montero Mata, Deputy Minister of Science, Technology, and Environment, Republic of Cuba
- RICH prototype for ALICE 3 tested at the PS
- ALICE Juniors Talk Brazil
- ALICE’s new management team
- ALICE Thesis Award 2025
- It's Oxygen time at the LHC
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.