ALICE Newsletter No. 370
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No.370,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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ALICE Juniors: ALICE Junior representatives (Rohaan, Sara, and Bianca) thank Florian for all his great work and dedication. |
- ALICE Upgrade Week 2025: 7-10 October:
Deadline for registration and hotel booking: 7 August Please Register!
- ALICE Mini Week: 25-29 August 2025
- ALICE Physics Week: 3-7 Nov 2025 at CERN
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
 ALICE Juniors: ALICE Junior representatives (Rohaan, Sara, and Bianca) thank Florian for all his great work and dedication. |
- E-bike service now available at P2
- "ALICE honours its PhD thesis award winners": CERN News
- "A new probe of radial flow": Energy Frontier, CERN Courier Jul/Aug 2025
- EDIT 2026 at CERN: 3-13 March 2026: Applications for the school are open from now until 1 October 2025.
EDIT (Excellence in Detector and Instrumentation Technologies) is a series of schools aimed at young researchers, including graduate students and early-career postdocs, who seek to deepen their knowledge of detector technologies and instrumentation for particle physics.
- Accelerator Report: Focus on luminosity production: By Rende Steerenberg
Following the successful oxygen and neon ion runs, protons are back in the LHC, delivering luminosity at a high rate and slowly catching up with the forecast production rate. In addition, a slight increase of the bunch intensity is being considered
- 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
- "Effective Theories for Nonperturbative Physics" 4–15 Aug 2025, CERN
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 5 Aug 2025, 16:00: "Local Operator Algebras of Charged States in Gauge Theory and Gravity"
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 6 Aug 2025, 14:00, CERN: "Recent developments on integrable QFTs at finite density" by Marco Serone (SISSA)
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
- Open shift block:
- There are currently 4 non-expert full blocks (plus two additional days for ECS on 20 August in the afternoon and on 21 August 21 in the night) and 6 expert (1 full/5 partial) blocks.
- In case of questions, please contact RC (alice-rc@cern.ch)
- There are currently 4 non-expert full blocks (plus two additional days for ECS on 20 August in the afternoon and on 21 August 21 in the night) and 6 expert (1 full/5 partial) blocks.
- LHC and ALICE:
- During the last week, LHC provided pp collisions at full machine.
- ALICE continued with pp data taking, recording physics data at 500 kHz. On Wednesday night, the machine investigated a possible vacuum issue that resulted in a spike observed in P2. The situation is currently being assessed.
- Since Thursday morning an access is taking place for an intervention on the LHCb SMOG system and for a magnet exchange in the SPS, which is expected to last for approximately 24 hours. During the access, ALICE granted interventions in the cavern to CV-EN (for ITS3 related activity) and to ITS.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- QCD at the extremes, online 1 September, abstract deadline 15 August
- Low-x 2025, Medulin, Istria, Croatia, 8-12 September. Abstract deadline 30 Aug. 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, abstract deadline 15 August, Invitation to submit abstracts on QCD and HI. Contact PWG and CC chairs.
- 2nd Workshop on Matter, Astrophysics, Gravitation, ions and Cosmology: Science of the Cosmos (MAGIC2025), Buenos Aires, 1-4 September, abstract deadline 15 August
- 17th International Conference on Heavy Quarks and Leptons (HQL 2025), Beijing, China, 15-19 September, abstract deadline 20 August. Invitation for a plenary review talk heavy quarks and leptons , contact CC chairs
- Baryons 2025 (The 2025 International Conference on the Structure of Baryons), Jeju, South Korea, 10 November, abstract deadline 15 August
- ExHIC-d 2025 (ExHIC-d workshop on QCD and hadronic dense matter),Jeju, South Korea, 15 November, abstract deadline 15 August
- The 14th international "Hiroshima" Symposium on the Development and Application of Semiconductor Tracking Detectors (HSTD-14), Taipei, 16 November, abstract deadline 15 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
- MIAMI 2025 Physics Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Florida, US, 12-18 Dec 2025, Invitation for a review talk + additional talks contact CC chairs
SCHOOLS
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Upcoming major conferences
| Initial Stages 2025, Taipe | 8-12 Sep 2025 | Rehearsals: 1-5 Sep 2025 |
| SQM, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA | 22-27 Mar 2026 | Approval Weeks: 2–13 Mar Rehearsals: 16 -20 Mar 22-27 Mar |
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18-22 May 2026 |
Rehearsals: 11-15 May 18-22 May |
| Hard Probes 2026. Nashville, US | 31 July - 5 Aug 2026 | Approval Week: 18–22 May; Rehearsals: 25 -29 Mar |
| ICHEP, Brazil | 30 July - 5 Aug 2026 | No Approval Week, but ALICE week 20-24 July, Rehearsals: 13-17 July |
JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Rohaan, Sara)
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- New Junior Representative:
Please join us in welcoming Sara as new Junior Rep for the next 2 years! Sara will be taking over from Florian from 1st August, so we would like to thank Florian again for all his great work and dedication.
- Diversity Office - Open Junior Rep Position
A Junior Representative is needed in the Diversity and Inclusion Office! If you wish to learn more (about the term, the responsibilities, the selection process…) and you are considering applying, reach out to alice-diversity-office@cern.ch. You can also write directly to Ananya, the former Junior Rep in the D&I, ananya.rai@cern.ch to get more insights on the role.
- 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 summarizing the key results of PhD thesis.
- New Junior Representative:
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE visits
- Saturday 26 July 2025
- Tiffin University, USA
- colleague’s friend, Denmark
- Monday 28 July 2025
- colleagues’ friends, Bulgaria, Spain, Poland
- Tuesday 29 July 2025
- colleague’s friends, Netherlands
- Jens and Valerie wedding group, Denmark
- Wednesday 30 July 2025
- students from India
- Pavia University, Italy
- Saturday 26 July 2025
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- ALICE Juniors Talk Brazil
- ALICE’s new management team
- ALICE Thesis Award 2025
- 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.