No.144,

ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS

ALICE Women 2021

NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Proximeters at CERN: Don’t forget to exchange your Proximeter for one with a firmware upgrade that improves security, usability and functionality. The exchange started on 22 February.
     
  • Outdoor gatherings at CERN: All gatherings outside are limited to 6 people in France and 15 people in Switzerland. At CERN, outdoor gatherings should be avoided, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t meet up for coffee with a colleague or two. If you do, you must follow all necessary hygiene measures, and notably respect two-meter social distancing whenever masks are not being worn. The Proximeter will help you achieve this if you are gathering on the CERN sites.
     
  • Anti-COVID apps in the Host States: Both Host States have deployed apps to help them break chains of transmission. To download the French app, search for TousAntiCovid, to download the Swiss one look for SwissCovid. In addition, a new app in Switzerland, NotifyMe (https://notify-me.ch/en/), has been designed to complement SwissCovid by notifying people who may have been contaminated at an event.
     
  • Update on the COVID19 Guidelines:  https://hse.cern/covid-19-informationFrequently Asked Questions: COVID FAQ page.

    New this week:

    - The Swiss list of at-risk countries (valid from 8 March): link here.
    - 10 days remain the official duration at CERN for the preventive quarantine.
    - CERN rules on travel quarantine: Quarantine for those returning from travel may be reduced to seven days on presentation of a negative RT-PCR test conducted at least seven days after return.

    For any information and support regarding the quarantine period contact ALICE-covid19-coordination@cern.ch
  • ALICE secretariat opening next week: Wednesday 10 March from 8h30 to 12h30 and from 13h30 to 17h30.
    Nathalie, Guylaine & Julia remain available by phone and e-mail.
     

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

New ALICE paper submissions appear in twitter: ALICE_Publications

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 this week: Technical Board presentations of 25 February 2021.

  • FDD: FDD C-side installed successfully last week. FDD A-Side installation is shifted till June.
     
  • ITS:  Service installation and commissioning activities ongoing. Test of Inner Barrel Bottom after replacement ongoing.
     
  • MFT: Analog scan on H0D0+H1D4, RU sequencer trigger, all zones in parallel, 7 minutes acquisition with load balancing. No dropped packet, 400Hz<packet rate H0D0<600Hz.
     
  • TPC: X-ray data taking ongoing and continue stability verification.  Laser will be installed this week.
     
  • TOF: 22 DC/DC converters uninstalled and sent back to CAEN. TRM and DRM FW validation ongoing.
     
  • TRD: Preparing for x-ray data taking. Tested readout from all FPLs to EPNs; wrote out timeframes to EOS.
     

 

CONFERENCES

CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
  • SQM2021, CERN/BNL - online, 17-22 May, abstract deadline 8 March (contact PWG conveners).
     
  • Forum on Tracking Detector Mechanics, Frascati, Italy, 17-19 May, abstract deadline 22 March.
     
  • Charm2020, online, 31 May - 4 June, abstract deadline 21 May.
     
  • OAI12, CERN online, 7 - 11 June, abstract deadline 22 March.
     
  • LHCP 2021, Paris, France, 7-12 June, abstract deadline 5 April.
     
  • EXA & SSP, Vienna, Austria, 12 - 17 September, abstract deadline 28 March.
     
SCHOOLS

      OUTREACH NEWS

      • Virtual visits: Open virtual visits to ALICE (for the general public) were launched last week. Guides willing to help, from CERN at Point 2 or from remote locations, please contact alice-outreach-virtual-visits@cern.ch.
         
      • Virtual visits this week:
        • First ALICE open virtual visit held on the 2nd March with ~ 60 participants.
           
        • Physics students University of Trieste, High School students participating in ALICE masterclasses held at Heidelberg, St. Petersburg, Trieste, Sarajevo, and in particle therapy masterclasses.
           
        • International Particle physics Masterclasses : ALICE sessions on the 5th March held by Heidelberg, Sarajevo, St. Petersburg, Trieste, Vienna.
           
      • Weekly activities open to everyone at CERN: from relaxing coffee meetings to High Intensity Training. CERN colleagues have put together a series of activities to help us stay connected in these challenging times. Find out what's coming up in the link here.
         

      DIVERSITY

      Have a great weekend and a great week ahead!

      JOB OPPORTUNITIES

      Please refer to Job Announcements link for details.

       
      Title
       
      Institute
       
      Application deadline
      Postdoctoral Research Associate In Experimental Nuclear, Particle, And Hadronic Physics University of Connecticut 9 April
      High Energy Nuclear Physics Postdoc Los Alamos, New Mexico Open until filled
      Experimental Physicist CERN 30 March
      Computing Engineer CERN 30 March
      Systems Software Engineer CERN 24 March
      Postdoc position University of Cagliari 12 March
      Early-career Postdoctoral Position University of Trieste  
      ALICE junior postdoctoral research position IJCLab, Orsay 1 May
      Postdoctoral position The ALICE group at IFJ PAN, Kraków, Poland 15 March
      Assistant or Associate Professor in Astrophysics, Cosmology, Particle Physics or Nuclear Physics Washington University in St. Louis 15 March
      Senior Fellowship: Science Show Developer CERN ECO group 15 March
      Senior Fellowship: Science Education Content Developer CERN ECO group 15 March
      Postdoc position in Quark-Gluon Plasma studies in ALICE (and beyond) IFJ PAN, Kraków 15 March