ALICE Newsletter No. 417
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No.417,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
 Top: ALICE Open visit with Mirko Planinic Bottom: American Kestrel U.S. Industry Delegation with Kai Schweda This week ALICE welcomed our first visitors since the start of LS3. It’s wonderful to see ALICE filled with curious faces again - even in the cavern! Here’s to many more visits in the months ahead! |
- ALICE Week, 20-24 Jul 2026 at CERN
- ALICE Summer Party at Point 2 on July 2026: Please Register here and also volunteer if you can!
- ICHEP 2026 rehearsal: 13-27 Jul: You are all welcome to participate to give suggestions/comments to the slides!
- 7th ALICE Upgrade Week: Calaserena Resort, Geremeas, Cagliari, 14-18 September 2026.
- ALICE Physics Week 2026 in Wuhan, 12–16 Oct 2026. REGISTRATION OPEN!
- ALICE Inclusive Teamwork Workshop (organized by ALICE DIversity Office): Registration Open
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Morning group: 7 & 21 September, 09:30–12:30 CEST
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1676593/
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Afternoon group: 7 & 21 September, 14:00–17:00 CEST
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1676596/
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- ALICE Calendar 2026
- ALICE approvals calendar for 2026
- ALICE Calendar 2027
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
 Our 2025 Breakthrough Prize Trophy placed in the ALICE Exhibition⭐ |
- Recent PhDs in ALICE: Congratulations to our new Doctors:
- Dr. Joey Staa
Thesis title: “Study of Lambda-Hadron Correlations in Pb–Pb Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 5.36 TeV Using the ALICE Detector“
Submitted to: Lund University, Sweden
Thesis defense: 12 June 2026
CDS: https://repository.cern/records/0m2tb-74521
Supervisors: Professors Alice Ohlson (main), Peter Christiansen, David Silvermyr
- Dr. Nicola Nicassio
Thesis title: “Design of a Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector for the next-generation heavy-ion experiment at the LHC“
Submitted to: Department of Physics, University of Bari, Italy
Thesis defense: 16 April 2026
CDS: https://repository.cern/records/j0gw6-p3r79
Supervisors: Professors Giacomo Volpe and Domenico di Bari
- Dr. Joey Staa
- Road to HiLumi: Check out the new LS3 webpage for updates on the ongoing work
- EP Newsletter, CERN, 23 Jun 2026: "ALICE reveals quark-gluon plasma energy loss in OO collisions" by Florian Jonas
- EP Newsletter, CERN, 23 Jun 2026: "MOSAIX: Designing bent wafer-scale monolithic pixel sensors for the ALICE ITS3 upgrade" by Pedro Vicente Leitao
- CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3
- Accelerator Report: Pushing the LHC towards HiLumi LHC conditions… and cut!, by Matteo Solfaroli, Deputy Leader of the Operations Group (BE-OP)
- CERN begins beryllium beam-pipe production, Supported by CERN and the LHC experiment collaborations, the workshop will construct essential components for HiLumi LHC and future particle physics experiments.
- Final collisions, new horizons
- Jets boost nuclear coalescence: CERN Courier Energy Frontier Jun-Jul 202
- The CERN Council decided to update the European Strategy for Particle Physics
- "Inclusion Matters: CERN’s new participatory inclusion initiative" A new “Inclusion Matters.” initiative invites the CERN community to co-create 50 visible and tangible inclusion actions by 2030
- CERN bids to host the Tour de France
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 started, Cavern Open
Shielding removal Ongoing
L3 Magnet door opens on 31 July
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- VERTEX26 - 34th International Workshop on Vertex Detectors, 20-24 July, Stoos, Switzerland
- NuQAI Conference, 3-4- Aug, Cambridge, USA
- Strong and Electro-Weak Matter 2026, 17-21 Aug, Helsinki, Finland
- ISMD 2026 - International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics 2026, 19-21 Aug, Chungly, Taiwan
- Call open for plenary talks (deadline 11 Jul)
- ICNFP 2026 - XV International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, 19-30 Aug, Crete, Greece
- Talks available on strangeness production in the special session on Strangeness in Heavy Ion Collisions and related topics (40th anniversary)
- Workshop on the Standard Model and Beyond, 23 Aug - 1 Sept, Corfu, Greece
- Young-scientists talks available
- MPGD2026 - 9th Conference on Micropattern Gaseous Detectors, 31 Aug - 4 Sep, Prague, Czechia
- PSD14 - 14th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors, 1-4 Sep, London, UK
- NSTAR 2026 - The 15th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons 7-11 Sep, Seville Spain
- PIXEL2026 - 12th International Workshop on Semiconductor Pixel Detectors for Particles and Imaging, 8-12 Sep, Miyazaki,Japan
- International Workshop on Machine Learning and Quantum Computing Applications in Medicine and Physics, 7-11 Sep, Warsaw, Poland
- ML4Jets 2026 - Scientific Machine Learning for Fundamental Physics, 14-18 Sep, Vienna, Austria
- RPC 2026 - 18th International Conference on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors, 14-18 Sep, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Emmi Workshop: Light Ion Collisions 2026, 21-25 Sep, Heidelberg, Germany
- Call open for overview talk on recent experimental results from light-ion collision systems + one to three abstracts for short contributions (deadline 1 July)
- LHC Days, 21-25 Sep, Split, Croatia
- Performance and Upgrades of ALICE
- Two specific topics
- QCD@LHC 2026 - 16th International QCD@LHC Workshop, 28 Sep - 2 Oct, Oxford, UK
- Talks available (deadline 15 Jul)
SCHOOLS
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30 July - 5 Aug 2026 |
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21 - 27 Mar 2027 |
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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 4 July 2026
- Diss High School,UK
- Out and About, Irelan
- Students from Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
- ALICE member’s friends, Italy
- Monday 6 July 2026
- FoCal students, Denmark
- ALICE member’s family, Austria
- Tuesday 7 July 2026
- Rai Noos press visit, Italy
- Arts at CERN visit
- Alumni visit, UK
- ALICE Open Visit
- Wednesday 8 July 2026
- Aristoteleio College, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Honours College FSE University of Groningen, Netherlands
- EHL Lausanne, Switzerland
- CERN Summer Students
- Thursday 9 July 2026
- Impington Village College, UK
- American Kestrel U.S. Industry Delegation, USA
- EUSYS, France
- ALICE members’ friends, Croatia, Slovakia, Switzerland
- Friday 10 July 2026
- ALICE members’ friends and family, Germany, Poland
- ALICE Open Visit
- Saturday 4 July 2026
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- 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
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Building on the 25 by’25 momentum, the Diversity & Inclusion Programme has launched Inclusion Matters, featuring 50 Inc. — a plan to co-create 50 practical actions that improve inclusion over the next five years. Already, 20 proposals have been submitted, including ideas to improve accessibility, create quiet zones, increase women speakers at events, use more inclusive language, and visibly support the Pride community. Read more in the CERN Bulletin You can take part by submitting your own proposal or contacting the ALICE Diversity Office: alice-diversity-office@cern.ch |
- "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
- "Inclusion Matters: CERN’s new participatory inclusion initiative" A new “Inclusion Matters.” initiative invites the CERN community to co-create 50 visible and tangible inclusion actions by 2030.
- 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.