ALICE Newsletter No. 362
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No.362,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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CERN news: ALICE eyes the cosmos In an article published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, ALICE collaboration has reported the detection of ~165 million events containing at least one cosmic muon, as well as 15702 events with more than four cosmic muons. This large sample was collected between 2015 and 2018 during pauses in LHC Run 2, when no particle beams were circulating in the collider. The display shows an artist’s impression of a spectacular cosmic-ray event with more than 200 muons recorded by the ALICE detector. The muon tracks are roughly parallel to each other, as expected from a typical cosmic-ray shower. More details in the ALICE link. Facebook, LinkedIn, BlueSky |
- Monday 9 June 2025: CERN offical holiday (Whit Monday)
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 10 Jun 2025, 11:00 Council Chamber (CERN): "Exploring Collective Dynamics in Small Collision Systems with ALICE at the LHC" by Dr Debojit Sarkar (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
- ALICE Physics Forum, Wednesday 11 Jun 2025, 09:30: 160/1-009 (CERN)
- ALICE Mini Week: 10-13 June 2025
- Training for ALICE exhibition guides - Tuesday 10.6.2025 9:00-10:00 at Point 2 (2285-R-C04): contact Despina Hatzifotiadou
- "Collaborating in Culturally Diverse Teams” workshop" 12 June 2025, CERN, 4/S-056.
Contact ALICE Diversity Office for details.
- ALICE Week: 14-18 July 2025
- ALICE Upgrade Week 2025: 7-10 October, Burghausen (Germany): deadline for registration and hotel booking: 7 Aug 2025
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- "ALICE measures a rare Ω baryon" : CERN Courier (May/June 2025) Energy Frontier
Link to CERN Courier ALICE articles!
- CERN Media Update (8 May 2025) "ALICE detects the transformation of lead into gold at the LHC"
- Accelerator Report: LHC on track despite disruptions throughout the accelerator complex by Rende Steerenberg:
Following the achievement of 2460-bunch stable beams on 24 May, the accelerator complex experienced an SPS magnet failure, a central timing glitch and a complex-wide power disruption. Yet the LHC remains on track to achieve its 2025 luminosity goal
- Computer Security: 5 ways to remotely connect to CERN
- Particle Therapy Masterclass 20 June 2025, CERN
- 13th ROOT Users Workshop will be held in Valencia, Spain: 17–21 Nov 2025
- European Strategy for Particle Physics: community input received
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- Open Symposium on the European Strategy for Particle Physics, Venice, 23–27 June
- Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 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
- "Making Neutron Stars a Laboratory for New Physics": 9–13 Jun 2025 CERN
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 11 Jun 2025, 14:00: "Neutron Stars – Nature’s most extreme laboratory" by Prof. Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
- CERN Computing Seminar, Tuesday 17 Jun 2025, 13:00: "Lessons From Billions of Breached Records" by Troy Hunt (haveibeenpwned.com)
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
| Title | Internal | Submission Date |
| 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 the upcoming week there is one open SL block (12 -17 June) and one QC shift (15 June-night), which still need to be covered. In case of questions please contact RC (alice-rc@cern.ch)
- In the upcoming week there is one open SL block (12 -17 June) and one QC shift (15 June-night), which still need to be covered. In case of questions please contact RC (alice-rc@cern.ch)
- LHC and ALICE:
- During the last week, the machine continued production at full capacity.
- The total time in stable beam during the last week was 55.1%. The downtime was caused by a cryogenic recovery on Sunday morning and a timing problem on Sunday. On Sunday, a severe power glitch required several interventions, which lasted until Monday evening. Afterwards, production continued.
- On Friday morning an access is required to finish work on a UPS in P1 and the emulsion exchange for SND. The access was carried out in the shadow of a cryogenic recovery. Afterwards, physics production is planned to continue.
- During the last week, the machine finalized the intensity ramp-up and started pp physics production.
- The data-taking efficiency was very good, resulting in 5.31/pb recorded luminosity ( 5.61/pb delivery luminosity).
The power glitch during Sunday night caused a trip of the ALICE magnet, but no issue with the detector. During the recovery from the power glitch, a faulty component in a rack for flammable gas detection caused an evacuation alarm in the ARC. - On Tuesday afternoon, a software update was carried out.
- During last week, further tests have been carried out to investigate the background situation at IP2. For this, a run with a separated beam has been recorded. Also, another high-interaction-rate test was done to study TPC FC stability.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 17th Thematic CERN School of Computing on Machine Learning, Malmo, Sweden, 8-14 June
- 15th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2025), Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 8-13 June
- Fifth MODE Workshop on Differentiable Programming for Experiment Design, Kolumbari, Crete, 8-13 June
- 2nd International Workshop on the Physics of Ultra Peripheral Collisions (UPC2025). Saariselkä, Finland , 9-13 June
- ANIMMA2025: 9th International Conference on Advancements in Nuclear Instrumentation Measurement Methods and their Applications, 9-13 Jun 2025, Valencia (Spain), 9-13 June
- 2nd European AI for Fundamental Physics Conference (EuCAIFCon 2025), cagliari, Italy, 16-20 June
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 21st Rencontres du Vietnam: Flavour Physics Conference 2025, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, 17-23 August
- Second International Conference on the Physics of Two Infinities,Tokyo, Japan 17-21 Nov 2025. Abstraxt deadline 15 June.
Invitation to submit parallel talks. Contact PWG, CC chairs
- 53rd SLAC Summer Institute, “Pathways to New Physics., Stanford, USA, 28 July - 8 Aug. Abstract deadline 29 July.
- XIV International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2025), Kolymbari, Crete, Greece. 17-31 July, abstract deadline 15 June. Invitation for 1 ALICE highlight talk, 1 overview on Strangeness, 1 overview on Quarkonia, 1 overview on HF, 1 talk on the contributions of ALICE to the breakthrough price 2025 and 1 outreach on the same topicon, + overview talks on 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 11 June. Invitation to submit abstracts for Quark Flavor Session AND Heavy Ion Physics, 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. Abstract deadline 1 July. 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
- 53rd International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD) 2025, Corfu, Greece, 21-28 Septembre. Abstract deadline 30 June.
- Corfu2025 Workshop on SM & Beyond, Corfu, Greece, 24 August - 3 September 2025. Invitation for a plenary talk Contact PWG, CC chairs
- QCD2025, Montpellier, France, 30 June. Invitation to submit abstracts. Contact PWG, CC chairs
- QCD at the extremes, online conference. 1 September. abstract deadline 15 August. Invitation to submit abstracts. Contact PWG, CC chairs
- XVII International Conference on Heavy Quarks and Leptons (HQL 2025), Beijing, China, 15–19 Sep 2025,
SCHOOLS
- The XXIII Bonaudi-Chiavassa Int. School of Particle Detector, Cogne, Italy, 23-27 June. Registration deadline 20 June
- 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
- 1st PhyStat School of Statistics Statistics in the era of Machine Learning, The Netherlands, 17 November, registration deadline 30 June
Upcoming major conferences
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Florian, Rohaan):
- Early-career researcher input for the European Strategy for Particle Physics: hybrid event on Tuesday, 27 May (1.00–4.00 p.m. CEST) to explore and discuss these recommendations and to reflect together on how to move forward as a community. The event is open to all, regardless of career stage or affiliation. We warmly welcome your participation and input.
- 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.
- Early-career researcher input for the European Strategy for Particle Physics: hybrid event on Tuesday, 27 May (1.00–4.00 p.m. CEST) to explore and discuss these recommendations and to reflect together on how to move forward as a community. The event is open to all, regardless of career stage or affiliation. We warmly welcome your participation and input.
OUTREACH NEWS
ALICE visits
- Saturday 31 May 2025
- visitors from the UK
- Monday 2 June 2025
- visite douane, France
- Tuesday 3 June 2025
- Cuesta College, USA; 1 LO Gdansk, Poland
- Wednesday 4 June 2025
- Windsor Girls’ School, UK
- Thursday 5 June 2025
- IES San Isidoro de Sevilla, Spain
- Friday 6 June 2025 ZS1
- Bochnia, Poland; Great Sankey High School, UK
- visitors from India
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- 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
- 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!