ALICE Newsletter No. 389
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No.389,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
 ALICE publicaton in Nature: Observation of deuteron and antideuteron formation from resonance-decay nucleons Nature volume 648, pages306–311 (2025) CERN Media Release: ALICE solves mystery of light-nuclei survival High resolution Photo in CDS |
 ALICE Week 8-12 December 2025High resolution Photo in CDS |
 CERN's new DG, Mark Thomson, addressing the ALICE CB(Alessandra Fantoni, Marco Van Leeuwen, CERN's new DG Mark Thomson, Kai Schweda, Luciano Musa, David Evans) High resolution Photo |
 End of Run get-together at Point 2: 9 Dec 2025High resolution Photo |
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Endorsements by the ALICE Collaboration Board (Meeting on 12 December 2025):
- Management Board Elected Members (elected on 24 Oct 2025)
- Stefania Beole' (Torino)
- Dariusz Miskowiec (Darmstadt)
- Service Work Board chair:
- Edmundo Garcia (Chicago): 1 Jan 2026 – 31 Dec 2028
- Edmundo Garcia (Chicago): 1 Jan 2026 – 31 Dec 2028
- CB representative in the Service Work Board (SWB):
- Cristian Andrei (Bucharest)
- ALICE 3 Project Structure:
- Outer Tracker (approved on July 2025)
(Project Leader: Laura Fabbietti (TUM) elected by the project institutional board) - Time of Flight (approved on July 2025)
(Project Leader: Angelo Rivetti (Turin) elected by the project institutional board) - Inner Tracker (approved today)
(Project Leader: Jochen Klein (CERN) elected by the project institutional board)
- Outer Tracker (approved on July 2025)
- Deputy Run Coordinator:
- Krystian Roslon (Warsaw): 01/01/2026 – 30/06/2026
- Deputy Computing Resource Coordinator:
- Gabor Biro (Budapest): 13/12/2025 – 12/12/2028
- Trigger Coordinator:
- Fabrizio Grosa (CERN): 01/01/2026 – 31/12/2028
- Fabrizio Grosa (CERN): 01/01/2026 – 31/12/2028
- Deputy Trigger Coordinators:
- Filip Pazdic (Birmingham): 1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2028
- Anton Riedel (Munich): 1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2028
- Software, Physics data processing and computing coordinator:
- Andreas Morsch (CERN): 28 Mar 2026 – 27 Mar 2029
- Andreas Morsch (CERN): 28 Mar 2026 – 27 Mar 2029
- Conference Committee chairs:
- Marie Germain (Nantes): 1 Jan 2026 - 31 Mar 2026 extension
- Lee Barnby (Derby): 1 Jan 2026 - 31 December 2028
- Valentina Zaccolo (Trieste): 1 Jun 2026 - 31 May 2029
- Conference Committee members:
- Debojit Sarkar (Mumbai): 1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2027
- Michal Broz (Prague): 1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2027
- Jory Sonneveld (Nikhef): 1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2027
- Benjamin Donigus (Frankfurt) - 2nd mandate: 17 March 2026 -- 16 March 2028
- Yaxian Mao (Wuhan) - 2nd mandate: 1 May 2026 -- 30 April 2028
- Editorial Board members:
- Ana Marin (Darmstadt): mandates for a second term
- David Silvermyr (Lund): mandates for a second term
- Lucia Tarasovicova (Kosice): srtarrting 27 Mar 2026
- Peter Christiansen (Lund): starting 16 Apr 2026
- Diversity Office members:
- Valentina Zaccolo (Trieste): 3 March 2026 - 31 May 2026 extension
- Angela Badala (Catania): 1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2028
- Morgan Knuesel (Yale): 1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2028) Junior Member
- Deputy Physics Coordinators:
- Cristina Terrevoli (Bari): 1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2028
- Valentina Mantovani Sarti (Munich): 1 Jan 2026 - 31 Dec 2028
- PWG Conveners:
- PWG-LF: Omar Vazquez (Houston): starting 1 Jan 2026
- PWG-EM: Sebastian Scheid (CERN): starting 1 Mar 2026
- PWG-DQ: Maxime Guilbaud (Nantes): starting 1 Jan 2026
- ALICE Juniors:
- Bianca Sabiu (Bologna): 1 Jan 2026 - 17 Mar 2026 extension
- Management Board Elected Members (elected on 24 Oct 2025)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
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 2025 finished on Monday morning with the last beam dump at 4:34. During the last weekend, the machine was running very smoothly.
- In the end, in 2025, Pb-Pb 2.09/nb were delivered, and 1.99/nb could be recorded.
- On Monday morning, detector responsibility was handed over to the experts.
- A significant part of the EPN resources was engaged in asynchronous reconstruction of the recorded data.
- Shift booking for 2026 was opened on Wednesday at 1:00 pm. Up to now. 87.50% of the shifts are already booked.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Workshop on High Energy Physics Phenomenology 2025 (WHEPP-2025), IIT Hyderabad, India, 14-20 December
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- "Trento" Workshop: 21st "Trento" Workshop on Advanced Silicon Radiation Detectors, 17-19 Feb 2026, INFN and University of Perugia, Perugia (Italy), 17-19 February, abstract deadline 1 December.
- 28th Conference on Computing in High energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP2026), Bangkok, Thailand, 25-29 May, abstract deadline 19 December.
- Lake Louise Winter Institute, Lake Louise, Canada, 1 March, abstract deadline 31 January
- Exotic Hadron Spectroscopy 2026, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 30 March, abstract deadline 1 February
- 25th IEEE Real Time Conference (RT2026), La Biodola, Italy, 25-29 May. abstract deadline 1 April
- 16th Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement CPOD 2026, CERN, 13 April, abstract deadline 1 February
- 33rd International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2026), Bologna, Italy, 4-8 May 2026, application deadline: 15 Jan 2026. invitation to submit abstracts. Please contact your PWG or CC
- XXXIX Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d'Aoste, La Thuille, Aosta Valley, Italy. 1-8 March. Invitation for an highlight talk by ALICE “Recent Results from ALICE” (20’ talk). Please contact CC.
- 17th International Conference on Nuclear Reaction Mechanisms, Varenna, Italy, 14 June, abstract deadline 31 January
- 13th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard Probes 2026), Nashville, Tennessee, USA, 21 June, abstract deadline 16 January (central submission for talks contact PWG onveneers)
SCHOOLS
- Frontiers in Nuclear and Hadronic Physics 2026, Arcetri, FIrence, Italy, 16-28 Feb 2026, Application deadline: 18 Dec 2025
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21-26 Jun 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: visits to ALICE cavern are possible till 19 February (excepting the days of the CERN year end closure)
- ALICE visits this week:
- Saturday 6 December 2025
- Princethorpe College, UKMensa Switzerland
- colleague’s friends, Italy
- Monday 8 December 2025
- Colleague’s friends, Italy, Germany
- Tomek Sowinski’s group, Poland
- Tuesday 9 December 2025
- 53rd High School of Athens, Greece
- Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology, UK
- colleague’s friends, Germany
- Wednesday 10 December 2025
- INFN Information Service group, Italy
- Collegio Einaudi, Torino, Italy
- Thursday 11 December 2025
- 4th Experimental High School of Lamia, Greece
- Cour des comptes, Switzerland
- ALICE member’s professional visitors, Switzerland
- Galperti - professional visitors from Italy
- High school students, India
- Friday 12 December 2025
- Torquay Girls’ Grammar School, UK
- Wren Academy, UK; Bootham School, UK
- Etat de Genève OCSIN (Office cantonal des systèmes d'information et du numérique), Switzerland
- Saturday 6 December 2025
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- 17 years and revitalised: ALICE TOF confirms excellent time resolution in Run3 continuous readout
- Lead ion beams at the LHC
- Observation of an attraction between a proton and a ρ⁰ (rho) meson
- Marco's visit to India
- 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.