ALICE Newsletter No. 357
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No.357,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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- First stable beams at full energy are expected on 5 May 2025 !
- LHCP 2025 rehearsals: 28 Apr 2025 → 2 May 2025
5 plenary talks and 15 parallel talks
- "ALICE 3" Days: 19 - 21 May 2025
- The registrations are open - please register if you plan to attend in person, so that we can plan for the practicalities.We look forward to a broad participation at CERN and to strong progress on all fronts of detector R&D and design!
- The ALICE 3 Scoping Document is public on CDS
Thanks to the WG coordinators and everyone involved.
- ALICE Mini Week: 9-13 June 2025
- ALICE Week: 14-18 July 2025
- ALICE Upgrade Week 2025: 7-10 October, Burghausen (Germany)
- Intervention - Shelter works at CERN Bat 53 / Bat 4 (28 April to 11 May):
please note that an intervention by SCE (Site and Civil Engineering department) is planned from 28 April to 11 May to replace the structure of the shelter that runs from Building 53 to the Cerisiers car park.Consequently, this access will be closed from 28 April to 11 May 2025! During this period, works will be noisy and may disturb the occupants!
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Conference Committee Membership, available position: 1 mandate from 1 July 2025 to 31 June 2027 with expertise in DQ (/HF). If interested to join Conference Comittee or want to propose someone,: please contact alice-cc-chairs@cern.ch
- Call for nominations for Event-by-Event / Fluctuations PAG coordinator: open untill 9 May 2025. Email your nominations directly to CF conveners!
- CERN management structure for 2026–2030: By Mark Thomson, Director-General designate of CERN
- Accelerator Report: LHC protons outpacing the Easter tradition: By Rende Steerenberg
- Charm jets lose less energy: CERN Courier (Mar/Apr 2025) Energy Frontier
- ESPP2026 - Strong Interactions Open WG Meetings, 14 - 28 May
- Open Symposium on the European Strategy for Particle Physics, Venice, 23–27 June
- Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 14 May (extraordinary)
- 11 June(mini-week)
- 9 July (extraordinary -> presentation of exceptional planned Run 3 preliminaries for initial stages in September, one week after OO run)
- 27 August (mini-week -> follow-up and approval of exceptional Run 3 preliminaries for initial stages in September)
- 1 October (extra-ordinary
- 5 November (physics week at CERN)
- 3 December (extra-ordinary)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Tuesday 6 May 2025, 11:00: Main Auditorium (CERN), EP Seminar: "Latest results from KATRIN: neutrino mass and beyond" by Kathrin Valerius (KIT)
- Tuesday 6 May 2025, 16:00; Lattice seminar: "Gauge field smearing and controlled continuum extrapolations" by Andreas Risch
- Thursday 8 May 2025, 11:00; Collider Cross Talk: "tau g-2 in HIN" by Arash Jofrehei (University of Zurich (CH)), Natascia Vignaroli
- Thursday 8 May 2025, 11:00; Archives, Library and Open Science events: "Meet the authors of "Crossing the Threshold: From Quantum Physics to Literary Imagination" ("La Puerta de los Tres Cerrojos")" by Sonia Fernandez Vidal
- Friday 9 May 2025, 11:00; Detector Seminar: "The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02)" by Corrado Gargiulo (CERN)
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
- LHC:
- During the last week, the commissioning of LHC continued through several steps, including optics measurement and TCT/TCL alignment. On Saturday, a second Stable Beams fill at injection energy was carried out for 2h. On Tuesday morning, a machine access was carried out. Due to a loss of cryogenics on Thursday the machine commission program had to be re-adjusted.
First stable beams at full energy are expected on 5 May 2025.
- ALICE:
- ALICE took physics data during the second stable fill at injection energy. Shortly before this fill, a faulty LVPS for MCH caused a trip of the rack, which could not be recovered remotely. It was recovered during an access on Tuesday morning.
- During the machine commissioning, ALICE was mainly running replay runs. A general software update was deployed last Friday, and some minor patches were applied during the week.
- ALICE is prepared for the start of the intensity ramp-up. During the first fill, ALICE plans to take several special runs for detector calibration.
- On coming Wednesday, the switch of the LHC cooling plants to full modes is scheduled, followed by a few days of scrubbing. Afterwards, the intensity ramp-up will continue
- Run Manager (28 Apr - 11 May): Magnus Thoegersen:
Magnus is a young physicist from Denmark who is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the ALICE Group at the University of Oslo (UiO). He first became part of the ALICE collaboration in 2021, when he completed his bachelor's project at the University of Copenhagen (KU) on the first prototype of the hadronic part of FoCal (Forward Calorimeter). He continued this work during his M.Sc., while also taking on various shift positions in the ARC (ALICE Run Control), where he familiarized himself with all the different procedures.
Now, as a Ph.D. student at UiO, Magnus aims to continue his involvement in the ARC. With the experience he has gained as a shifter over the past few years, he is ready to take on his first mandate as a Run Manager.
During his mandate, Magnus will supervise ALICE during the final days of beam commissioning and the first stable beams at full energy. He will also take care of the first step of the intensity ramp-up.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- The Thirteenth Annual Large Hadron Collider Physics (LHCP2025), Taipei, 4-9 May
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- QCD Evolution 2025, Jefferson Lab,USA, 19-23 May, abstract deadline 5 May
- 23rd Conference on Flavor Physics and CP Violation (FPCP 2025), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 2-6 June, abstract deadline 12 May
- 15th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2025), Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 8-13 June, abstract deadline 4 May. Invitation for HF parallel talks, contact PWG HF and CC chairs.
- Fifth MODE Workshop on Differentiable Programming for Experiment Design, Kolumbari, Crete, 8-13 June. No deadline
- 21st International Conference on QCD in Extreme Conditions (XQCD 2025) University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland, 2-4 July, abstract deadline 24 April. Contact PWG, CC chairs.
- 21st Rencontres du Vietnam: Flavour Physics Conference 2025, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, 17-23 August.
- 15th International QCD@LHC Workshop (QCD@LHC 2025), Stony Brook,USA, 8-12 September, abstract deadline 2 Sep, Invitation to submit abstracts. contact PWG conveners and CC chairs
- Parton Showers and Resummation Conference 2025 (PSR2025), CERN, 14-18 July, abstract deadline 1 June
- Second International Conference on the Physics of Two Infinities,Tokyo, Japan 17-21 Nov 2025. Abstraxt deadline 15 June. Invitation for 1 plenary talk “ALICE latest results and future perspectives” + parallels. Contact PWG, CC chairs
- BOOST 2025 -- 17th International Workshop on Boosted Object Phenomenology, Reconstruction, Measurements, and Searches at Colliders, Brown University,Providence USA, 28 July - 1 August. Abstract deadline 13th May. Invitation to submit abstracts. Contact PWG, CC chairs
- XIV International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2025), Kolymbari, Crete, Greece. 17-31 July, abstract deadline 31 May. Invitation for on or two highlight talks on recent results, + overview talks on PWG subjects, trigger, DAQ, detectors, upgrades etc.. contact PWG and CC chairs.
- 32nd International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies: Lepton-Photon 2025 (LP2025), Madison, (US), 25-29 August. Abstract deadline 31 May. invitation to submit abstracts for Quark Flavor Session, contact PWG and CC chairs
- Low-x 2025, Medulin, Istria, Croatia, 8-12 September. Abstract deadline 30 June. Invitation to submit abstracts on QCD and HI. contact PWG and CC chairs
- 15th International QCD@LHC Workshop (QCD@LHC 2025), Stony Brook,USA, 8-12 September. Invitation to submit abstracts. contact PWG and CC chairs
- HYP2025, Tokyo, 29 September - 3 October invitation for hypernuclei, strangeness, hadron structure, HF, future talks. contact PWG and CC chairs
SCHOOLS
- COMETA training school: ML4Physics@Ljubljana,Slovenia, 26 June - 2 July, registration deadline 4 May
- The XXIII Bonaudi-Chiavassa Int. School of Particle Detector, Cogne, Italy, 23-27 June. Registration deadline 20 June
- Parton Showers and Resummation School 2025, CERN, 7-11 July, registration deadline 25 April
- Quantum Chromodynamics and multidimensional hadron structure”, School, Orsay, France, 7-11 July, registration deadline 15 May
- GRASPA2025 Summer School in Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Annecy, France, 16 July, registration deadline 5 May
- Erice International School/Workshop of Nuclear Physics, 46th course on 'QCD under extreme conditions - present and future', Erice, Italy. 15 September. registration deadline 1 July
- The XXIII Bonaudi-Chiavassa Int. School of Particle Detector, Cogne, Italy, 23-27 June. Registration deadline 20 June
- International School of Nuclear Physics, 46th Course: QCD under extreme conditions - present and future, Erice, Sicily, 17-21 September 2025. Call for abstracts submission deadline: 1 July 2025.
- "Machine Learning for Physics school", University of Ljubljana, 26 June - 2 July, Registration deadline 4 May
- International Summer School of QCD 2025, IJCLab, Orsay, 6-12 Jul 2025, Application deadline 15 May.
- Summer School on Advanced Artificial Intelligence for precision High Energy Physics (AIHEP), Como, Italy, 14-25 July, Registration deadline: 13 April
- DRD1 Gaseous Detectors School 2025, Bonn, Germany, 17-24 Sep, Registration open.
JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Florian, Rohaan):
- Following the LHC-wide mental health survey conducted in 2023, which was developed by the ALICE Junior representatives, the ALICE Diversity office and Sarah Speziali, we are happy to announce that the results of the survey are finally analyzed and publicly available as a combined CMS and ALICE public note:
Assessing the mental health state of LHC scientists (ALICE-PUBLIC-2025-001,CMS NOTE-2025/001)
The note contains answers from all four LHC experiments, and was not only limited to junior members of the collaborations. We thank everyone who participated and hope that the note will serve as a basis for future initiatives.
- 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.
- ALICE Theses website
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis.
- Following the LHC-wide mental health survey conducted in 2023, which was developed by the ALICE Junior representatives, the ALICE Diversity office and Sarah Speziali, we are happy to announce that the results of the survey are finally analyzed and publicly available as a combined CMS and ALICE public note:
OUTREACH NEWS
ALICE visitsSunday 27 April 2025
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- Sabanci High School, Türkiye
- Tuesday 29 April 2025
- IES Julian Magarinos, Spain
- Wednesday 30 April 2025
- Mercer Island Group, USA
- Friday 2 May 2025
- Hyderabad Public School Ramanthapur, India
- colleague’s family, Belgium
Saturday 26 April 2025
- Mensa CH, Switzerland
- colleague’s friends, Italy
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
- ALICE Muon Spectrometer
- Getting lead to the LHC? How?
- ALICE is gearing up for QM 2025!
- 11 Feb: International Day of Women and Girls in Science
- "The Other 99%"
- ALICE Christmas video
- Early Morning Coffee at CERN podcast Episode 3: Turning lead into primordial soup with Marco Van LeeuwenInstagram Live from ALICE cavern with Jiyoung Kim, Kai Schweda, and Simone Ragoni
- QGP at 50: Facebook, X/Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram
DIVERSITY
- Work Well Feel Well: Emotions: forces for transformation: Part eight of the Work Well Feel Well series looks at how to acknowledge and manage our emotions!
- 25 by ’25 Gender Diversity Progress:
The latest data shows remarkable progress toward the 25% gender diversity target, originally deemed unattainable by experts due to low staff turnover. We are now less than 0.5% away from the goal! A special thank you to Hiring Managers for their dedication to “conscious hiring” over the past years. With a diverse feeder pool of students and grads, we are optimistic that this will result in increased gender diversity among staff in the medium and long term. More info ....
- D&I Volunteer Networks:
- SNAC (Neurodiversity) Network:
The network, set to officially launch in Q1 2025, already has over 60 members. Recent feedback from a participant highlighted the value of connecting with others who share similar neurodivergent traits.
- Coordinator position open for The Network for persons with Disability:
The role involves acting as a contact point for disability-related questions, participating in Diversity & Inclusion Roundtable meetings, and monitoring projects aimed at improving working conditions for people with disabilities at CERN. Please contact Jean-Yves Le-Meur for more details.
- SNAC (Neurodiversity) Network:
- 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 Job Announcements link for details.
Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!