ALICE Newsletter No. 318
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No.318,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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ALICE in ICHEP 2024ICHEP 2024 photo and the list of all ALICE Presentations are in the ALICE website! Congratulations to all presentators! |
- ALICE Upgrade Week, 7-11 October 2024 at IFJ PAN, Krakow: Registration open!
- ALICE Physics Week + Collaboration Board meeting at Grand Hotel Salerno, Italy, 2-6 Dec 2024: Please Register.
- 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. Regisration Open!
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Workshop on Advances, Innovations, and Future Perspectives in High-Energy Nuclear Physics, Wuhan, China, 19–24 Oct 2024:
This workshop is organized in the context of the 30th anniversary of China-ALICE cooperation and the 60th anniversary of China-France diplomacy. Registration open!
- CERN Courier (July/August 2024) features our ALICE article in the Energy Frontiers segment:
"Intrigue in charm hadronisation"
- 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
- 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
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 30 Jul 2024, 11:00: "Search for magnetic monopoles using the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe with the ATLAS experiment" by Mateusz Dyndal (AGH University of Krakow)
- "Basics of Quantum Computing" Tuesday 30 Jul 2024, 13:30: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre (CERN)
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 30 Jul 2024, 16:00: "ASCII: The Ultra-Low Energy Ion Implantation of Radioisotopes for Surface Characterization at ISOLDE-CERN" by Nicole Pereira De Lima (Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares (BR))
- "Quantum Computing Applications and Use-cases" Wednesday 31 Jul 2024, 13:30: 31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre (CERN)
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 1 Aug 2024, 11:00: "RPV multijets" by Anthony Badea (University of Chicago (US)), Halil Saka (University of Cyprus (CY))
- "Characterization of a simple particle detector using cosmic particles" Thursday 1 August 2024
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
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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
- hift booking opportunities:
- SL block: 7th August to 12th August
- SL block: 11th August to 16th August
- SL block: 8th October to 12th October
- Several shift blocks open in October and November (pp and HI period)
Shifts booking via SAMS.
- ALICE Run Manager (22 - 24 Jul): Ernesto Calvo Villar
- LHC and P2 news:
- LHC:
During the past week, the LHC has provided stable beams for proton-proton physics during more than 60% of the time. Operations were interrupted last Friday for most of the day due to an urgent access for the ATLAS tile calorimeter, followed by several issues in the injectors and the transfer lines. Stable beams were then resumed on Saturday in the early morning, and since then the machine has been providing mostly long fills.
The physics production will continue over the weekend and during next week. No access is planned for the next days.
- P2 operations:
ALICE continues to collect good physics data with at high efficiency, regularly above 95%. On Wednesday an access was organised by the LHC, during which we performed some regular detector maintenance and we took advantage to check the status of the water leak in the solenoid cooling circuit. The leak rate is currently very low and does not show any sign of degradation, so the solenoid magnet can be operated safely. Nevertheless, it was decided to limit as much as possible the magnet power cycles, and the solenoid will be generally kept on even during long interruptions of beam operations.
With the current magnet polarity (+/+), which is set since the technical stop the recorded integrated luminosity in physics fills is currently of about ~10 pb-1 (total for both polarities: ~24 pb-1).
- LHC:
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Hadron Collider Physics Summer School (HASCO 2024), Göttingen, Germany 28 Jul - 5 Aug
- BOOST2024, Genova,Italy, 29 Jul - 2 Aug
- 20th Rencontres du Vietnam: The Axion Quest, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, 4-10 Aug
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, 2-5 Sep, abstract deadline 29 Jul. Invitation for 3 ALICE talks, contact CC
- PHYSTAT Workshop on "Statistics meets ML" in Particle Physics & Astrophysics, Imperial College London, 9–12 Sep 2024, abstract deadline 31 July.
- Physics in Collision 2024 PIC2024, Athens, Greece, 22-25 October, abstract deadline 30 September. Opportunity for 1 plenary multi-experimental talk on Heavy Ion, contact CC (deadline 31 July) and for abstract submissions!
- Corfu 2024 Workshop on the Standard Model and Beyond, Corfu, Greece, 25 Aug - 4 Sep. Opportunities for PhD students and Postdocs to submit abstracts for 15+5min talks, contact conveneers
- LHC days at Split (Croatia), 30 Sep - 4 Oct, abstract deadline for Posters 15 Sep.
- 14th High-Energy Physics Conference (HEPMAD24), Antananarivo, Madagascar, 21-26 Oct, abstract deadline 27 Sep.
- International Symposium on High Energy Physics (ISHEP-2024), Antalya, Turkiye, 18 Oct, abstract deadline 15 Sep
- Blois 2024: 25th rencontres de Blois on Particle Physics and Cosmology, Blois, Loire Valley, France, 20-25 Sep, abstract deadline 1 Sep.
- 24th Zimányi school winter workshop on heavy ion physics Budapest, Hungary, 2-6 Dec 2024, abstract deadline 30 Sep.
- The 2024 international workshop on the high energy Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), Hangzhou, China, 23–27 Oct, abstract deadline 31 Jul.
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, Rohann):
- 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 20 July 2024 Poukamisas High School, Greece
- Monday 22 July 2024 visitors (PGCE) from UK
- Tuesday 23 July 2024 Meram Science High School, Türkiye
- Wednesday 24 July 2024
- Devonport High School for Boys, UK
- colleague’s friends, Netherlands
- D102W Zone 11, France
- Thursday 25 July 2024
- Openlab summer students
- VIP visit: H.E. Mr. Arindam Bagchi Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva
- Friday 26 July 2024 ALICE member’s friends, Italy
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.