ALICE Newsletter No. 386
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No.386,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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Control room photograph: 14 Nov 2025
LHC Page 1
ALICE Event display lead ion run: Pb-Pb 2025
8 November – 6 December: Pb-Pb physics run
8 December: start of YETS
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- The first ALICE Experiment and Heavy-Ion Physics School, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, from 3 to 9 November 2025:
The first ALICE Experiment and Heavy-Ion Physics School was held at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, from 3 to 9 November 2025. The school was co-organized by Fudan University (FudanU), Central China Normal University (CCNU), the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE), and the China University of Geosciences (CUG).
The school provided an introduction to relativistic heavy-ion physics, the ALICE experiment, as well as data processing and workflows used in ALICE. More than 70 early-career researchers from universities and institutes across China attended, building foundational knowledge of detector systems, data structures, and analysis methods relevant to ALICE Run-3, Run-4, and ALICE 3 efforts.
The school’s success highlights the rapid growth of heavy-ion physics in China and the rising involvement of Chinese institutions in ALICE. Future editions are planned to further support young researchers and strengthen long-term collaboration within the global ALICE community.
----- Jianhui Zhu and Xiaozhi Bai
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- Call for plenary speaker nominations (3 talks):
Please provide your nominations to alice-cc-chairs@cern.ch by 5 December. Self-nominations are welcome. Please include a brief motivation in support of your suggestions.
- SQM2026 (22-27 March, Los Angeles, CA)
- Light flavours measurements in ALICE
- Heavy flavour measurements in ALICE
- ICHEP2026 (30 July - 5 August, Natal, Brazil)
- Overview of Heavy Ion measurements (multi-experimental talk)
Given the broad scope of the audience for this conference, it is important to select a speaker who can effectively communicate highlights to particle physicists from various subfields, and has a large expertise covering the whole Heavy ion field for all experiments. The nature of this talk differs from those tailored to more specialized audiences, such as those at SQM.
- Overview of Heavy Ion measurements (multi-experimental talk)
- SQM2026 (22-27 March, Los Angeles, CA)
- ALICE Calendar 2026
- "Why we need a CERN-wide AI strategy" Joachim Mnich, Director for Research and Computing, CERN (13 Nov 2025)
- "Accelerator Report: 2025 is another record-breaking year for protons in the LHC" By Rende Steerenberg (12 Nov 2025)
- Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 3 December (extraordinary)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar, Friday 21 Nov 2025, 11:00: "Timepix and Medipix: an overview of recent progress and some lessons learned" by Michael Campbell (CERN)
- BE Seminars, Friday 21 Nov 2025, 16:00: "Metamaterial absorbers for beam-coupling impedance mitigation" by Leonardo Sito (Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (IT))
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 25 Nov 2025, 11:00: "Precision measurements of the CKM angle ɣ, charm mixing and CP violation using the LHCb detector" by Timothy David Evans (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
- Lattice seminar, Tuesday 25 Nov 2025, 16:00: "Three-Loop Hadronic Vacuum Polarization in Chiral Perturbation Theory" by Mattias SJÖ (CPT, Aix-Marseille University)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 26 Nov 2025, 14:00: "Functional methods for Effective Field Theory calculations" by Javier Fuentes-Martin (Universidad de Granada)
- "Strong coupling from thrust at lepton colliders": 27–28 Nov 2025, CERN
- Archives, Library and Open Science events, Thursday 27 Nov 2025, 11:00: "Meet the author of `Space radiobiology: synergies between astroparticle and medical physics' " by Alessandro Bartoloni (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 27 Nov 2025, 11:00: "[LHCb, TH]" by Lorenzo Pica (SNS & INFN Pisa (IT)), Stefan Schacht (Durham University)
- "Light ion collisions at the LHC - 2025": 1–3 Dec 2025, CERN
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
- Open shift block: please contact RC (alice-rc@cern.ch):
- QC Expert: 5.12 - 7.12
- LHC and ALICE:
- Last Friday (14 Nov 2025) afternoon, the first stable Beam with Pb-Pb collisions was declared.
- During last weekend, the ramp-up and the vdM scan for all four experiments were carried out. Monday evening, we had the first fill already with the full machine.
- Since then, the machine has experienced several issues, including two cryogenic losses, which needed several hours for recovery.
- Due to instabilities in the TPC FC, the target rate needed to be reduced to 22 kHz. Investigation from the TPC side is ongoing.
- At this rate, data taking is going very smoothly. Up to now, 0.42 /nb were recorded (0.43/nb delivered).
- Last Friday (14 Nov 2025) afternoon, the first stable Beam with Pb-Pb collisions was declared.
- Current Run Manager (10-23): Luca Quaglia
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
None
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Cracow epiphany Conference 2026, Kraków, Poland. 12–16 January 2026. Deadline: 1 Dec 2025. Invitation for ALICE talks on: (please contact your PWG conveners, or CC chairs)
- ALICE overview talk on HI physics
- Jet production and modification in HI
- Bulk properties of matter in HI
- Recent results from OO/NeNe
- Experimental overview from pp, pPb
- ALICE overview for UPC
- + Young Scientist Sessions
- "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 November,
SCHOOLS
- None
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Upcoming major conferences |
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22-27 Mar 2026 |
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18-22 May 2026 |
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21-26 June 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 again possible between 8 December and 19 February.
- ALICE visits this week:
- Saturday 15 November 2025
- South Hampstead High School, UK
- Gordon’s School, UK
- Tuesday 18 November 2025
- John Masefield High School and Sixth Form, UK
- professional visitors- Calliditas, Switzerland
- Wednesday 19 November 2025
- I.M. Panagiotopoulos school, Greece
- Spoleczne Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace w Zarach, Poland
- Thursday 20 November 2025
- John Kyrle High School, UK
- colleague’s family, Spain
- Friday 21 November 2025
- Liceo Scientifico Galileo Galilei, Italy
- Saturday 15 November 2025
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- 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.