ALICE Newsletter No. 325
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No.325,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Call for nominations for the next ALICE Collaboration Board Chairperson: Nominations should be sent to:ALICE-CB-Chair-Search-Committee@cern.ch Deadline: 23 September 2024. More details in the link here.
- Latest version of the ALICE constitution (version 17)
- CERN Bulletin (22 August 2024):
- ALICE does the double-slit: Using collisions between lead nuclei at the LHC, the ALICE collaboration has measured an interference pattern akin to that of the famous double-slit experiment
- ALICE honours its 2024 Thesis Award winners: On 9 July 2024, the ALICE collaboration honoured its PhD Thesis Award winners in a ceremony organised as part of the ALICE collaboration meeting at CERN
- CERN70 Feature Series:
- CERN70: Into the antiworld (3 Sep 2024)
- CERN70: Where the Web was born… (20 Aug 2024)
- CERN70: Green light for LEP (31 Jul 2024)
- 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
- 2 October (extra-ordinary)
- 6 November (mini-week)
- 4 December (during physics week)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 17 Sept 2024, 11:00: "High-precision measurement of the W boson mass at CMS" by Josh Bendavid (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
- TH String Theory Seminar by Talk by Dam Thanh Son
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 19 Sept 2024, 11:00: "Higgs Width Measurements" by Federico Buccioni, Jay Sandesara
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
- Shift booking opportunities:
- !!! CRITICAL !!! ECS block: 20-25 September
- ! URGENT ! QC block: 26 September - 1 October
- SL block: 8-13 October
- SL blocks: 12-21 October
Several shift blocks open in October and November (pp and HI period)
Shifts booking via SAMS.
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ALICE Run Manager (16 - 29 Sep): Cristian Andrei
Cristian is a physicist from Bucharest NIPNE. He is a specialist in pion, kaon, and proton production in high multiplicity pp events, studying the dependency of their production as a function of charged particle multiplicity and event shape. He is an active member of the PWG-LF and has made significant contributions to several analyses. Moreover, he has been a member of several paper review committees (ARC, IRC). Cristian has substantial experience in data taking and ALICE operation at P2. Since 2016, he has taken up all central shifter positions: ECS, DCS, QC, and SL. Building upon this experience, he ensured a first Run Manager mandate in 2018 and a second one in 2023, when he faced the tough challenge of starting the first Heavy Ion data taking of RUN 3.
This year, Cristian will coordinate two weeks of pp physics production, where ALICE will keep working to further improve the data-taking efficiency and the online tools in preparation for the reference run in October.
- LHC and P2 news:
- LHC:
During the past week, the LHC operated quite smoothly. While the fraction of fills that were dumped prematurely was more than half, the issues were all promptly recovered. As a result, the overall fraction of time spent in stable beams was above 70% over the past seven days. One of the dumps, on Tuesday morning, was due to the trip of the ALICE dipole magnet, following a short interruption of the cooling water circulation that triggered the temperature interlock. The cooling was restarted shortly after, and the magnet has been successfully ramped up. - P2 operations:
ALICE has collected data smoothly and efficiently, surpassing 40 nb-1 of recorded luminosity in p-p physics fills. The collected statistics are now almost equally balanced between the positive and negative magnet polarities. The data-taking operations this week have been perturbed by two major incidents:
- the trip of the dipole magnet on Tuesday morning
- the stop of the TRD cooling system in the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, which required to turn the detector completely off for several hours
The TRD cooling has been successfully restarted during a dedicated short access on Wednesday morning.
After a short interruption for planned access on Friday, the pp physics data will continue in the next few days.
- LHC:
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- International School of Nuclear Physics: 45th Course: Nuclei in the laboratory and in stars, Erice, Italy, 16-22 September
- The Fundamentals: Summer school in high-energy and gravitational physics, Split, Croatia, 16-20 September
- 12th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions: Hard Probes 2023 (HP2024), Nagasaki, Japan, 22-27 September
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- LHC days at Split (Croatia), 30 Sep - 4 Oct, abstract deadline for Posters 23 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 Oct, abstract deadline 30 Sep. NEW Invitation for a ALICE HIGHLIGHT talk contact CC.
- Physics in Collision 2024 (PIC2024), Athens, Greece, 22-25 Oct, abstract deadline 30 Sep. Opportunity for contributed talks, contacts PWG
- Hydrodynamics and related observables in heavy-ion collisions, Nantes, France, 28-31 Oct, abstract deadline 29 Sep. Opportunity for contributed talks, contact PWG
- Machine Learning for Jet Physics 2024 (ML4Jets2024), Paris, France, 4-8 Nov, abstract deadline 15 Sep
- 15th Latin American Symposium on High Energy Physics (SILAFAE 2024), Mexico, Mexico, 4-8 Nov, abstract deadline 15 Sep
- Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy, WPCF2024 Toulouse, France, 4-8 Nov, abstract deadline 6 Sep. Opportunity for contributed talks, contact PWG
- National Societies of Black and Hispanic Physicists (NSBP/NSHP) National Conference, Houston, USA, 13-17 Nov, abstract deadline 30 Sep
- 24th Zimányi school winter workshop on heavy ion physics Budapest, Hungary, 2-6 Dec, abstract deadline 30 Sep
- BCVSPIN Conference 2024, Particle Physics and Cosmology in the Himalayas, Kathmandu, Nepal, 9-13 December, Invitation for a plenary talk on "latest and near-future highlights from ALICE”, contact CC
- 68th DAE Symposium in Nuclear Physics, Roorkee, India, 7-11 Dec, abstract deadline 15 Sep
- Triggering Discoveries in High Energy Physics workshop, High Tatras, Slovakia, 9-13 Dec, abstract deadline 9 Nov
- The 9th International Symposium of HF Production in Hadron and Nuclear Collisions, Guangzhou, China, 6-11 Dec, abstract deadline 1 Nov
- Miami2024 Physics Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US, 12-19 Dec, abstract deadline 30 Oct. NEW Invitation for a plenary talk on « review of recent ALICE results” (30min), contact CC + 1 more talk on specific subject (30 min)
SCHOOLS
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Dates of upcoming major conferences
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Florian, Rohaan):
- 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 7 September 2024
- 3rd General Lyceum of Serres, Greece
- BHASVIC (High School), UK
- Monday 9 September 2024
- Direction of IRFU / CEA Saclay, France
- Tuesday 10 September 2024
- Clydeview Academy, UK
- King Edward VI Aston, UK
- Les anciens du control commande EDF et RTE, France
- ALICE member’s friends, Switzerland
- Wednesday 11 September 2024
- ILO im Leona Kruczkowskiego w Tychach, Poland
- Geitonas School, Greece
- Thursday 12 September 2024
- The University Juliusz Slowacki High School Chorzow, Poland
- BRG Amstetten, Austria
- ALICE member’s friends, Italy
- Friday 13 September 2024
- High School of Zacharo, Greece
- High School of Zacharo, Greece
- Saturday 7 September 2024
- Instagram Live from ACR (6 Aug 2024)
DIVERSITY
- ALICE workshop on inclusive teamwork, 1 and 15 October 2024: AM cohort and PM cohort
This fall we will have two sessions of ALICE training on Inclusive teamwork. The training is offered to all members of the ALICE management and team leaders free of charge. The workshop consists of two REMOTE sessions of three hours each over two consecutive weeks. The maximum number of participants for each session is 12. Please Register for either AM cohort or PM cohort.
- JE ME SOUVIENS: Celebrating Diversity & Inclusion at CERN @70: Friday 27 Sept 2024, 09:00 → 12:30, 160/1-009 (CERN)
- 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.