ALICE Newsletter No. 425
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No.425,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
 Visit of LHCC Referees to ALICE on 2 September |
- 7th ALICE Upgrade Week: Calaserena Resort, Geremeas, Cagliari, 14 - 18 September 2026.
- ALICE Physics Week 2026 in Wuhan, 12–16 Oct 2026. PLEASE REGISTER !!
- ALICE Inclusive Teamwork Workshop (organized by ALICE DIversity Office): First session: 7 September and second on 21 September.
The content of the workshop will aim to: Build self-awareness and learn how to overcome our own biases, Understand and pay attention to relationships and cross-cultural communication, Help people feel at ease when sharing their ideas, Learn how to address harassment and inappropriate behaviour.
- ALICE Calendar 2026
- ALICE approvals calendar for 2026
- ALICE Calendar 2027
- Improving the CERN Meyrin site: ongoing works and how to get around
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- "Exceptional transport operations to make way for HiLumi LHC" The first two massive components of the LHC have been removed from the accelerator tunnel following a complex handling operation - by Corinne Pralavorio
- "All CERN accelerators now on the road to HiLumi" The accelerator complex and Antimatter Factory delivered their last beams, marking the end of the third run and the start of major upgrade work to prepare for the HiLumi era. - by Anaïs Schaeffer
- "The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting a Major Upgrade. But What Would Actually Surprise Physicists?" Various pundits, including our own, John Jowett, weigh in on the question of future prospects of the LHC.
- Check out the new LS3 webpage for updates on the ongoing work
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- "162nd Meeting of the SPSC" 8 September 2026
- Arts at CERN - Meet the Artists - Emilija Škarnulytė, Thursday 17 Sept 2026, 17:00 by Emilija Škarnulytė, Giulia Bini (CERN, Moderator)
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
 LS3 activities: FIT-A Removal
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CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- "NSTAR 2026 - The 15th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons" Seville, Spain, 7-11 Sep
- "International Workshop on Machine Learning and Quantum Computing Applications in Medicine and Physics", Warsaw, Poland, 8-12 Sep
- "PIXEL2026 - 12th International Workshop on Semiconductor Pixel Detectors for Particles and Imaging", Miyazaki, Japan, 8-12 Sep
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
| Event | Location | Date | Abstract | Speaking Oppotunities |
| ML4Jets 2026: Scientific Machine Learning for Fundamental Physics | Vienna, Austria | 14-18 Sep | ||
| RPC 2026: 18th International Conference on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 14-18 Sep | ||
| Emmi Workshop: Light Ion Collisions 2026 | Heidelberg, Germany | 21-25 Sep | ||
| LHC Days | Split, Croatia | 21-25 Sep | ||
| The XLV international symposium on Physics in Collision (PIC2026) | Qhui Nhon, Vietnam | 5-9 Oct | 7 Sep | ALICE overview talk + other contributions |
| QCD@LHC 2026: 16th International QCD@LHC Workshop | Oxford, UK | 28 Sep - 2 Oct | ||
| HEPMAD26: 16th High-Energy Physics Conference | Antananarivo, Madagascar |
26-31 Oct | ||
| HF-HNC 2026: 10th International Symposium on Heavy Flavor Production in Hadron and Nuclear Collisions | Bloomington, Indiana, USA |
26-29 Oct |
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| Quark–Gluon Dynamics in the Nuclear Medium: (An ECT Workshop) | Trento, Italy | 9-13 Nov | 30 Sep | |
| 26th Zimányi Winter Workshop on Heavy Ion Physics (Zimanyi 26) | Budapest, Hungary | 30 Nov - 4 Dec | 28 Sep | |
| Kruger 2026: Discovery Physics at the LHC | Kruger National Park, South Africa | 30 Nov | 31 Aug |
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| UPC 2026 - 3rd International Workshop on the Physics of Ultra-Peripheral Collisions | Playa del Carmen, Mexico | 7-12 Dec | 15 Sep |
SCHOOLS
None
| Upcoming major conferences | |||
Jeju Island, Korea |
1 - 27 Mar 2027 |
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Jyväskylä, Finland |
7 - 11 June 2027 |
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Bucharest, Romania |
26 – 30 July |
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Bucharest, Romania |
13 – 17 September |
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Hefei, China |
17 – 23 October |
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior Representatives (Sara, Davide, Meiyi)
- "Supporting early careers beyond 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
- ALICE Theses website
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: a ~3-min video summarising the key results of the PhD thesis.
- ALICE Juniors website
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE Visits this week:
- Saturday 29 August 2026
- Liceo Vasco Beccaria Govone, Italy
- ETH Zurich ETH Bio Alumni, Switzerland
- ALICE members’ friends and family, Italy, UK, Denmark, Switzerland
- Sunday 30 August 2026
- ALICE member’s family, Czech Republic
- Monday 31 August 2026
- ALICE members’ friends, Malta, Switzerland
- Tuesday 1st September 2026
- Dreams Travel, Switzerland;
- ALICE member’s friends, Italy
- ALICE open visit
- Wednesday 2 September 2026
- Gymnasium Burgdorf, Switzerland
- LHCC Referees
- Thursday 3 September 2026
- Open University Geological Society, France
- EPS de Chavannes pres Renens et Saint Sulpice, Switzerland
- LBNL Advanced Light Source; University of Mainz, Germany
- BNL-CERN School on Physics @ Future Colliders
- BCGE Juridique, Switzerland
- ALICE member’s friends, France
- Friday 4 September 2026
- EPS de Chavannes pres Renens et Saint Sulpice, Switzerland
- Prize winners from Drama, Greece; CERN Summer Students
- Technical University of Košice (TUKE), Slovakia
- ALICE members’ friends and family, Switzerland, UK
- ALICE Open visit
- Saturday 29 August 2026
- ALICE Masterclasses
- Saturday 29 August 2026 ALICE masterclass at CERN in the frame of the 2nd Greek Teacher Programme
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- ALICE at ICHEP 2026
- Unboxing a particle detector | ALICE Experiment at CERN
- ALICE Week: July 2026
- UPB Tier1
- Oxygen-Oxygen collisions
- ALICE visits
- Congratulations to Barbara Erazmus!
- LHC Live from ALICE
- Silvia on Social Media on the start of the heavy-ioin run!
- A new chapter of ALICE physics at LHCP 2026
- Building bridges towards ALICE 3: Japan
- Mexico in ALICE 3
- ALICE ITS3 by Alexander Kluge
- ALICE observes partonic flow even in small colliding systems
- Do all jets lose energy in the same way?
- International Women’s Day, 8 March
- LHC Career Event: 17 Mar 2026
- ALICE 3 MID
- ALICE EMCal
DIVERSITY
- ALICE Inclusive Teamwork Workshop: First session on 7 September and second on 21 September.
- "E-learning course “Ethics at CERN” for all CERN personnel":
To ensure that everyone is aware of the guidelines of our ethical framework, the HR Department has developed an e-learning course entitled “Ethics at CERN”, which is available in English and French on the CERN Learning Hub. As of now, this course is mandatory for all members of the CERN personnel. Ethics at CERN
- 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.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Please refer to the Job Announcements page for details.