ALICE Newsletter No. 365
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No.365,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
Open Symposium of the ESSP 2026 Update
ALICE collaboration has a strong presence in the symposium!
Andrea Dainese's talk: Open questions and experimental prospects: Hot and dense QCD & QCD connections (hadronic, nuclear and astrophysics)
- EPS-HEP Rehearsals: 30 Jun 2025 - 4 Jul 2025
- India-ALICE Collaboration meeting, VECC, Kolkata, 1- 4 July 2025
- CERN Seminar: 8 July 2025:“Examining the nucleosynthesis process and the inner nuclei structure with (anti)hypernuclei at the LHC” , Janik Ditzel
- ALICE Week: 14-18 July 2025, Council Chamber, CERN
- ALICE Thesis Award Presentation: 15 July, 11:45 AM
- ALICE Summer Party and ALICE Group Photo: 16 July, 19:00 hrs: Please Register!
- Collaboration Board meeting, Friday 18 July: Open to all ALICE members
- ALICE Thesis Award Presentation: 15 July, 11:45 AM
- ALICE Upgrade Week 2025: 7-10 October, Burghausen (Germany):
deadline for registration and hotel booking: 7 Aug 2025
- Directorate Meeting - July 2025: Wednesday 2 Jul 2025, 10:30 → 12:00, Auditorium Sergio Marchionne (CERN)
- Special preview screening - "The Peace Particle": 4 July 2025, 16:00 hrs
Watch a special preview screening of a new powerful documentary about science for peace!
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
ALICE Forward Calorimeter Workshop in Tsukuba: 17-23 June 2025
- CERN Thesis Migration:
- CERN CDS team has announced thesis migration from https://cds.cern.ch/ to a new CERN Repository ( https://repository.cern/).
- Link to all ALICE Theses!
- "News from the June 2025 CERN Council Session" By Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN
- "CERN management structure for 2026–2030, part 2" By Mark Thomson, Director-General designate of CERN
- "Accelerator Report: The LHC wraps up its first 2025 physics block" By Rende Steerenberg
The proton physics run has now been paused for the first block of machine development studies, a technical stop and short oxygen- and neon-ion physics runs. Protons will be back in the machines on 12 July
- "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:
- Computer Security: 5 ways to remotely connect to CERN
- 13th ROOT Users Workshop will be held in Valencia, Spain: 17–21 Nov 2025
- 16th edition of the Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement (CPOD2026) will take place at CERN, 13-17 April 2026.
- 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
- Detector Seminar, Friday 27 Jun 2025, 11:00: "Cryogenic Readout Electronics" by Prof. Edoardo Charbon (EPFL)
- "Evolving Beyond the Standard Model" 30 June 2025 to 11 July 2025, CERN
- Archives, Library and Open Science events, Monday 30 Jun 2025, 13:30: "The Voice of Science - "Colouring Black Holes: Epistemic and Aesthetic Choices in Astronomical Images" with Dr Rodrigo Ochigame
- "Summer Student Lecture Programme 2025": 1 Jul 2025 to 1 Aug 2025
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 1 Jul 2025, 11:00: "Cornering natural supersymmetry using ultra-soft signatures at CMS" by Samuel Louis Bein (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 2 Jul 2025, 11:30: "Bridging the microhertz gap in the gravitational-wave landscape with binary resonance" by Mr Alexander Jenkins (King's College London)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 2 Jul 2025, 14:00: "Superradiant Interactions of Cosmic Relics" by Savas Dimopoulos
- QTI Seminars, Thursday 3 Jul 2025, 10:00: "Simulating lattice gauge theories with Tensor Networks" by Mari Carmen Banlus
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 3 Jul 2025, 11:00: "ttH(bb/cc) in ATLAS and CMS" by Judith Katzy (DESY), Sebastian Wuchterl (CERN)
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:
- During the next week there few open expert shifts:
ECS: 11 Jul (morning), 12/13 Jul (night)
QC: 6./7. Jul (night), 10./11. Jul
In case of questions please contact RC (alice-rc@cern.ch)
- During the next week there few open expert shifts:
- LHC and ALICE:
- On Monday morning machine finished the MD with a very good availability. Afterwards technical stop started, which will last till Friday afternoon.
Afterwards machine will restart with commissioning for the vdM cycle and for the oxygen special run.
- Stable beam with proton-Oxygen is expected on Tuesday, 1 July 2025.
- During the technical stop, ALICE carried out the usual maintenance work, including the DCS backup (on Monday).
ALICE is getting ready for the first physics with the Oxygen beam. During the commissioning of Oxygen, ALICE will also perform background studies.
- On Monday morning machine finished the MD with a very good availability. Afterwards technical stop started, which will last till Friday afternoon.
- Run Manager (23 June - 6 July): Daiki Sekihata
Daiki Sekihata is an assistant professor at the University of Tsukuba and a specialist in electromagnetic probes. In 2015, he was the deputy System Run Coordinator of the PHOS detector when ALICE took the first Pb-Pb data at 5.02 TeV in Run 2. During Long Shutdown 2, he was involved in the upgrade of the TPC, in particular in the installation and pre-commissioning of the GEM detectors in the clean room at Point 2.
Daiki took two Run Manager mandates in Run 3, one in 2022 and another in 2023. Daiki is actively involved in physics data analysis. He was the coordinator of the low-mass di-electron PAG from July 2020 to February 2023 and is currently the PWG-EM convener since October 2023.
During his mandate, he will cover the finalization of the Technical Stop and the start Oxygen special run period.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- QCD2025, 25th anniversary, Montpellier, france, 30 June - 4 July
- 21st International Conference on QCD in Extreme Conditions (XQCD 2025), University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland, 2-4 July
- 46th CERN School of Computing (CSC 2025), Lund, Sweden, 6 - 19 July
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. Abstract deadline 30 June
- XIV International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2025), Kolymbari, Crete, Greece. 17-31 July, abstract deadline 20 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.
- The 33rd International Workshop on Vertex Detectors “VERTEX2025”, Knoxville USA, 25 August, abstract deadline 30 June, Invitations to submit abstracts , contact Projects & CC
- 26th international symposium on spin physics (SPIN2025), Qingdao (Tsingtao), China, 22 - 26 September 2025. Abstract deadline: 30 June 2025
- 53rd SLAC Summer Institute, “Pathways to New Physics., Stanford, USA, 28 July - 8 Aug. Abstract deadline 24 July.
- 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. 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 September. Abstract deadline 30 June. Invitation to submit abstract + plenary overview UPC. Contact PWG and CC chairs.
- Corfu2025 Workshop on SM & Beyond, Corfu, Greece, 24 August - 3 September 2025. Invitation for a plenary talk 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.
- Second International Conference on the Physics of Two Infinities, Tokyo, Japan 17-21 Nov 2025. Abstract deadline 15 August. Invitation to submit parallel talks. Contact PWG, CC chairs
- 17th International Conference on Heavy Quarks and Leptons (HQL 2025), Beijing, China, 15-19 September, abstract deadline 20 August
- 7th international workshop on new Photon-Detectors, Bologna, Italy, 3-5 Dec 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
- 8th edition of the cross-disciplinary International Summer School INFIERI series, Pisa Italy, 1-13 September 2025, Registration deadline: 30 June.
- 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):
- 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.
OUTREACH NEWS
ALICE visits
- Saturday 21 June 2025
- HTBLVA Sankt Poelten, Austria
- Monday 23 June 2025
- colleagues’ friends, UK, Spain
- Tuesday 24 June 2025
- Volker's High School Visit, Germany
- Greenwood Academy, UK
- Wednesday 25 June 2025
- European Education Center, Georgia
- SYANE DNUM, France
- Thursday 26 June 2025
- Radyr Comprehensive School, UK
- Friday 27 June 2025
- Mill Hill School, UK
- Model High School of Mytilini, Greece
- colleague’s friends, Italy
- 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
- "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
Please refer to Job Announcements link for details.
Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!