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NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

 

  • Annual closure of the CERN site: The Laboratory will be closed from Saturday, 19 December 2020 to Sunday 3 January 2021. The first working day in the New Year will be Monday, 4 January 2021. Next ALICE Newsletter release date: 8 January 2021.
  • Official CERN holidays in 2021 and end-of-year closure 2021/2022: please see the link here.
  • CERN announces new open data policy in support of open science: The four main LHC collaborations (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb) have unanimously endorsed a new open data policy for scientific experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which was presented to the CERN Council today. Details are in the links:  Policy document and  Announcement.
For any information and support regarding the quarantine period contact ALICE-covid19-coordination@cern.ch
 

EVENTS OF INTEREST

NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV

All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
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: Papers in Collaboration Review (Open for Comments).

 

Paper in Round - 2:

 
aper in Round - 2:
Title Deadline for comments
 
21 December 2020
 
23 December 2020
 
23 December 2020

NEWS FROM POINT 2

  • Surface commissioning, commissioning at P2 and lab. and remote commissioning are progressing well for all central and subsystems. The main highlights of this week:  Please visit TB meeting (https://indico.cern.ch/event/849408/).
  • Cavern: all CR1-UX optical fibers are installed and tested.
  • ITS:  IB Boundary behaviour studies completed, OB  stability tests and cosmic data taking completed. Surface commissioning was so successful.
  • TPC:  C-side readout commissioning started. First noise data taken. A-side connection on-going.
  • MCH: Station 5 installation ongoing. VS tests with CRU-UL ongoing.
  • MFT:  Installation and tests of  PP2, Power cables, Readout infrastructure and related services, and Disk water cooling  ongoing
  • FIT-C:  Routing of cables and connecting to patch-panels  completed. Electronics PRR was passed for full production.
  • TRD: Data readout verified up to EPN in VS tests. VS tests with FLP compressor performed.
  • EMC and PHOS: FLP checkpoints successful with 6 DDL links and 1 FLP

CONFERENCES

CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)

None

SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
  • Moriond 2021, La Thuile, Italy - online, 27 March - 3 April, abstract deadline 10 January.
SCHOOLS

Fontiers in Nuclear and Hadronic Physics: 1 - 12 March 2021. Registration deadline 1 March 2021. Registration deadline: 31 December 2020.

OUTREACH NEWS

  • On-site public visits are cancelled at least until the end of March 2021. However, it is now possible to visit virtually the ALICE
    experimental area via a live, interactive channel connecting Point 2 to any remote Zoom-enabled virtual or physical site where physicists and engineers show and explain what goes on in ALICE.

DIVERSITY

ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here.

 

Happy Holidays!

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

  • The Relativistic Heavy-Ion group at the University of Houston invites exceptional candidates to apply for a postdoctoral position in the area of experimental relativistic heavy-ion physics. Candidates interested in this position should contact both Rene Bellwied and Anthony Timmins.
  • Electronics or Senior Electronics Research Engineer, University of Edinburgh. Details are in the link here. Please get in touch with S.Eisenhardt@ed.ac.uk for further information.
  • Permanent position on pixel detector development at University of Goettingen. More details are in the link here.