ALICE Newsletter No. 367
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No.367,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
Neon-Neon collisions and Oxygen-Oxygen collisions at the LHC:
First-ever collisions of oxygen at the LHC
Oxygen collisions at the LHC: Collapsing the nuclear wave function
ALICE Week: 14-18 July 2025, Council Chamber, CERN
- ALICE Upgrade Week 2025: 7-10 October, Burghausen (Germany):
Deadline for registration and hotel booking: 7 Aug 2025
- ALICE Physics Week: 3-7 Nov 2025 at CERN
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
After 9 great years, Julia Cachet is turning the page and beginning a new and exciting chapter at CERN, outside the ALICE Secretariat.
Merci beaucoup, Julia !!
Merci beaucoup, Julia !!
- "A century of quantum mechanics"
On 9 July 1925, in a letter to Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg revealed his new ideas, which were to revolutionise physics
- "Venice event brings future of particle physics into focus"
Discussions at the Open Symposium of the European Strategy for Particle Physics demonstrate strong progress towards ensuring that CERN remains a world leader in collider physics and technology
- Summer 2025 – Route de Meyrin works notice
- 16th edition of the Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement (CPOD2026) will take place at CERN, 13-17 April 2026.
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- Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 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
- Parton Showers and Resummation 2025: 14-18 July 2025, CERN
- A&T Seminar, Monday 14 Jul 2025, 09:00, Salle Anderson (CERN): "High Temperature Superconductivity: status, present and future applications"
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 15 Jul 2025, 11:00, 222/R-001 (CERN): "Where sample statistics matter: ATLAS improves searches for rare Higgs boson decays with the large Run 3 data set" by Kun Liu (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
- "Introduction to Quantum Computing, Quantum Machine Learning and Optimization" Tuesday 15 Jul 2025, 13:30, IT Amphitheatre (CERN)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 16 Jul 2025, 14:00: "The Strong Interaction at 50 Years: less Puzzling, more Rich, and still Mysterious" by Iain Stewart
- CERN Colloquium, Thursday 17 Jul 2025, 16:30, Main Auditorum, CERN: "Understanding Cosmic Rays and Gamma-Ray Bursts" by Alvaro De Rujula (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))
- STELLAR, A voyage across the Universe with Nobel Laureates and Astronauts: 19 July 2025.
CERN Science Gateway celebrates the the 56th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon. Public Event.
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
| Title | Internal | Submission Date |
| Study of ⟨pT⟩ and its higher moments, and extraction of the speed of sound in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE | Link | 12 Jun 2025 |
| Femtoscopic study of the proton-proton and proton-deuteron systems in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC | 2 May 2025 |
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
- Open shift block:
- In case of questions, please contact RC (alice-rc@cern.ch)
- In case of questions, please contact RC (alice-rc@cern.ch)
- LHC and ALICE:
- During the last week, the Oxygen special run period was concluded very successfully with 7 fills in total.
- On Monday, the switchover to Neon was done very successfully. Even due to a problem with the cryogenic system on Monday evening, a fill of 10h in stable beams with Ne-Ne collisions could be done.
- ALICE was able to collect significantly more statistics than originally planned. For O-O 5.01/nb and for Ne-Ne 0.87/nb were collected. The running of ALICE was very smooth.
- On Wednesday morning, the Special running period finished with access to remove the ZDCs of ATLAS/CMS.
- Afterwards, the pp vdM period started. Due to some issues in LHC and the injectors, the start was delayed till Thursday evening.
- During the last week, the Oxygen special run period was concluded very successfully with 7 fills in total.
- Run Manager (7 - 20 July): Peiyu Li
Peiyu is a Ph.D. student from the China Institute of Atomic Energy in Beijing. Previously, she worked on the R&D of Micro Pattern Gas Detectors, focusing on detector construction and testing procedures. As part of those R&D activities, she also built several imaging systems based on MPGD detectors. She recently started her Ph.D. thesis in which she contributes to the R&D and testing of TPC detectors.
After following the RM package last, Peiyu is taking a second RM term this year. During her mandate, she will follow the final days of the oxygen period and the pp VDM scan.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Parton Showers and Resummation Conference 2025 (PSR2025), CERN, 14-18 July
- Summer School on Advanced Artificial Intelligence for precision High Energy Physics,Como, Italy 14-25 July
- 39th ICRC, the astroparticle physics conference ,Geneva, 14-24 July
- GRASPA2025 Summer School in Particle and Astroparticle Physics ,Annecy, France, 16-23 July
- XIV International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2025),Kolymbari, Crete, Greece. 17-31 July
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- XIV International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2025), Kolymbari, Crete, Greece. 17-31 July, abstract deadline 20 June.
- The 33rd International Workshop on Vertex Detectors “VERTEX2025”, Knoxville USA, 25 August, abstract deadline 30 June, Invitations to submit abstracts , contact Projects & CC
- Joint International Workshop on Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy and the QCD Structure of the Nucleon (IWHSS-QCD-N'25), San Sebastian, Spain, 1 September, abstract deadline 15 July
- QCD at the extremes, online 1 September, abstract deadline 15 August
- Low-x 2025, Medulin, Istria, Croatia, 8-12 September. Abstract deadline 30 July. Invitation to submit abstracts on QCD and HI. Contact PWG and CC chairs
- 17th International Conference on Heavy Quarks and Leptons (HQL 2025), Beijing, China, 15 September, abstract deadline 20 August
- 53rd SLAC Summer Institute, “Pathways to New Physics., Stanford, USA, 28 July - 8 Aug. Abstract deadline 24 July.
- 53rd International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD) 2025, Corfu, Greece, 21-28 September. Abstract deadline 27 July. Invitation to submit abstract. 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 for posters: 31 July.
- Baryons 2025 (The 2025 International Conference on the Structure of Baryons), Jeju, South Korea, 10 November, abstract deadline 31 July
- The 14th international "Hiroshima" Symposium on the Development and Application of Semiconductor Tracking Detectors (HSTD-14), Taipei, 16 November, abstract deadline 1 August
- Second International Conference on the Physics of Two Infinities, Tokyo, Japan 19 Nov 2025. Abstract deadline 15 August. Invitation to submit parallel talks. Contact PWG, CC chair
SCHOOLS
- 53rd SLAC Summer Institute, “Pathways to New Physics., Stanford, USA, 28 July, abstract deadline 24 July
Upcoming major conferences
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Florian, Rohaan)
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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.
- CERN Thesis Migration:
- CERN CDS team has announced thesis migration from https://cds.cern.ch/ to a new CERN Repository ( https://repository.cern/).
- 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!
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- ALICE Theses website
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis.
OUTREACH NEWS
ALICE visits
- Saturday 5 July 2025
- AFAAC, France
- colleague’s friends, Germany
- Tuesday 8 July 2025
- Northampton High School, UK
- Wednesday 9 July 2025
- CERN Colloquium Speaker Professor Elspeth Garman, UK
- University of Groningen honours programme, Netherlands; ETH Plant Ecological Genetics PEG, Switzerland
- Thursday 10 July 2025
- Wellingborough School, UK
- Silverdale School, UK; Smithsonian Group, USA
- VIP visit : Professor Kaustuv Sanyal, Director, Bose Institute, India
- Friday 11 July 2025
- Hartismere, UK
- ALICE Summer Students
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- It's Oxygen time at the LHC
- ALICE eyes the cosmos
- ALICE measures a rare Ω baryon
- ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
- Quark Matter 2025 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
- "A peaceful end to the working day": Avoiding work seeping into our private lives
- 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
| Date Listed |
Title |
Institute |
Application deadline |
| 11 July | Postdoctoral Scholar | Michigan Technological University | 28 July 2025 |
| 11 July | Accelerator Physics Research Associate | Brookhaven National Lab | 1 Apr 2026 |
| 11 July | Postdoctoral Fellows in Experimental Physics | QUP, Tsukuba, Japan | 31 Aug 2025 |
| 11 July | Post-doc Position | Stefan Meyer Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences | 31 July 2025 |
| 11 July | PhD Position | Stefan Meyer Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences | 11 Aug 2025 |
| 11 July | PhD Research Fellow in Experimental Subatomic Physics | University of Bergen | 14 Aug 2025 |
| 4 July | PhD Position in ALICE | Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. Contact: Dr. Małgorzata Janik | 20 Jul 2025 |
| 4 July | Postdoctoral Fellow | National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) | 25 Jul 2025 |
| 4 July | PhD position and postdoc position on the CMS experiment | University of Helsinki | 15 Aug 2025 |
| 4 July | PhD position on the CMS experiment | Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb | 31 Dec 2025 |
| 4 July | Postdoctoral position on the ATLAS experiment | CEA Paris-Saclay (Irfu/DPhP) | 7 Sep 2025 |
| 4 July | Electrical Engineer - FCC project | CERN | 24 Aug 2025 |
| 4 July | Computing Engineer (HR Business Applications) | CERN | 29 Jul 2025 |
| 4 July | Open Call for Female Candidates: Professor Position in the Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences | University of Tsukuba | |
| 4 July | 20 faculty positions (Women-only) | University of Tsukuba | |
| 27 Jun | 2025-RTT-046 - Department of Physics “G. Occhialini” | University of Milano-Bicocca | 20 Jul 2025 |
| 27 Jun | Computing Engineer | CERN | 17 Jul 2025 |
| 27 Jun | Postdoctoral Research Associate | Purdue University | 4 Aug 2025 |
| 27 Jun | Full time logistician in physics | University of Brussels | 15 Aug 2025 |
| 20 Jun | Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Experimental Particle Physics | University College Dublin | 15 Sept 2025 |
| 20 Jun | Staff positions in QCD & collider physics | CERN | 31 Jul 2025 |
| 20 Jun | Postdoctoral position | University of Michigan | 15 Aug 2025 |
| 20 Jun | Postdoctoral Position in Experimental Nuclear Physics | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz | 25 Aug 2025 |
| 13 Jun | Postdoctoral Research Associate for Computational High-Energy Physics | Brown University | 1 Aug 2025 |
| 13 Jun | PhD Position in Ultra-Fast Silicon Detectors for Medical Imaging | TU Vienna | 17 Jul 2025 |
| 13 Jun | Research Scientist (Tenure Track) | PSI, Villigen | 12 Jul 2025 |
| 13 Jun | Postdoctoral position | University of Michigan | 15 Aug 2025 |
| 6 Jun | Postdoc Position in High Energy Physics (CMS) | São Paulo Research and Analysis Center | 15 July 2025 |
| 6 Jun | Postdoctoral Research Fellows for Calorimeter R&D | Tsung-Dao Lee Inst., Shanghai | 15 July 2025 |
| 6 Jun | Call for Expression of Interest (2026): Tenure-Track Positions (all brances of physics) | Department of Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) , Lisbon | 5 Sep 2025 |
| 23 May | Postdoctoral Researcher in Experimental High-Energy Nuclear Physics | Fudan University | 1 Sep 2025 |
| 4 Apr | Postdoc Position in Experimental Particle Physics | IMP, Lanzhou, China | 31 Dec 2025 |
| 21 Mar | Postdoc Position in Experimental Particle Physics | Institute of Modern Physics（IMP), Lanzhou, China | 31 Dec 2025 |
| 14 Mar | Postdoctoral Researcher in High-Energy Physics Experiment and Instrumentation | Universiti Malaya | 1 Sep 2025 |
| 28 Feb | Post-doctoral position in experimental nuclear physics (CMS) | Sejong University | 1 Aug 2025 |
| 21 Feb | Invitation to apply to MSCA-IF with LHCb/CODEX-b | Eotvos University | 31 Jul 2025 |
Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!