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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
(Daylight saving time 2021 in Europe will begin at 01:00 on
Sunday 28 March. The dates and times below refer to Central European Summer Time)
- Ongoing today: ALICE Week: 22 - 26 March 2021.
- CERN LHC Seminar, Tuesday 30 March 2021 at 11:00 by Fabio Catalano (Politecnico Torino) on "Beauty and charm production in pp collisions via D-mesons with ALICE".
- First hands-on LF O2 analysis workshop: Monday 29 March from 14:00 hrs.
- ALICE Physics Forum - SQM and EPS-HEP previews: 7-15 April.
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Article by Physics Coordination (Andrea, Leticia, and Cvetan) in EP newsletter: "ALICE gears up towards a rich Run 3 QCD programme"
- New Doctoral Graduate in ALICE: Congratulations!!
- Dr. Wadut Shaikh
Thesis title: “Bottomonium studies at LHC energy using ALICE Muon Spectrometer”
Submitted to: Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics / Homi Bhabha National Institute
Defended on: 3 February 2021
CERN Thesis Report number: CERN-THESIS-2020-296
CDS : https://cds.cern.ch/record/2753829?ln=en
Supervisor: Prof. Sukalyan Chattopadhyay
Service Task: "Creation and monitoring of the MUON reject list"
- Dr. Wadut Shaikh
- Update on the COVID19 Guidelines: https://hse.cern/covid-19-information
Frequently Asked Questions: COVID FAQ page.
New this week:
- Site access at CERN: The number of infections in the local area is on the rise. Only those whose work requires on-site presence should come on site in order to limit the number of people at CERN and the potential spread of the virus. This also applies to those who have been vaccinated. Vaccination protects the vaccinated individual from severe forms of the disease, but does not guarantee that they are not able to spread the virus. Remember, those who can telework must do so.
CERN is monitoring the evolving situation closely with a view to adapting the access restrictions in place as necessary. For now, CERN's measures remain unchanged.
- Stay well during Covid-19 while managing the demands of work, telework, family and personal life is key. CERN has a range of support structures for those who need them: details in the link here.
- New measures in France announced on 25 March: details in the website here.
- Measures in Switzerland: details in the website here.
For any information and support regarding the quarantine period contact ALICE-covid19-coordination@cern.ch
- ALICE secretariat opening next week: Wednesday 31 March from 8h30 to 12h30 and from 13h30 to 17h30.
Nathalie, Guylaine & Julia remain available by phone and e-mail.
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- TH Journal Club on String Theory, Monday 29 Mar 2021, 13:30: "Probing gravitational EFTs with the four-graviton amplitude" by Alexander Zhiboedov (CERN).
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 31 Mar 2021, 16:30: "Evolution of magnetic fields in the early Universe" by Jennifer Schober (EPFL - EPF Lausanne).
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 1 Apr 2021, 15:00: "Is Our Universe the Remnant of Chiral Anomaly in Inflation?" by Azadeh Maleknejad.
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 of this week: more news on Technical Board presentations and ALICE Week Plenary.
- ITS: Outer Barrel top and bottom installation completed.
- MFT: DCS and service commissioning ongoing. Extensive full chain readout tests performed during MW3.
- TPC: cooling consolidation ongoing, FEC inspection / replacement on started on C side, Pulsar Data taking with heartbeat accept trigger successful (full C side).
- MCH: Station 3 & 5 commissioning ongoing. Last two quadrants for station 1 installed this Wednesday.
- Milestone Week 3: ongoing : https://indico.cern.ch/event/1017934/. A lot of progress is being made in the O2 and subsystem readout integration.
- TOF: CTTM restarted. Setting of threshold fixed and now working again.
- O2: Lots of integration activities were held during MW3 (calibration workflows with CCDB, EPN and DPL integration in AliECS, run partitioning).
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
None
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- EuCAPT, CERN, 5-7 May, abstract deadline 31 March 2021.
- Forum on Tracking Detector Mechanics, Frascati, Italy, 17-19 May, abstract deadline 1 April.
- CHARM2020, online, 31 May - 4 June, abstract deadline 21 May.
- LHCP 2021, Paris, France, 7-12 June, abstract deadline 5 April.
- iWoRiD Radiation Imaging Detectors, Ghent, Belgium, 27 June - July 1, abstract deadline 9 April.
- EXA & SSP, Vienna, Austria, 12 - 17 September, abstract deadline 28 March.
- Sustainable HEP, CERN-online , 28 - 30 June 2021, abstract deadline 27 April.
- Future of Open Science, 6 - 10 September 2021, abstract deadline April 27.
SCHOOLS
- HASCO school, Germany, 18 - 26 July, registration deadline April 16.
OUTREACH NEWS
- All CERN, group guided tours on site are cancelled until the end of June 2021 at least.
- ALICE Virtual visits are announced in the official CERN catalogue: https://visit.cern/virtual
- Open Virtual visits to ALICE (for the general public) have been recently launched. Guides willing to help, either from CERN at Point 2 or from remote locations, please contact alice-outreach-virtual-visits@cern.ch.
The ALICE open virtual visit in Italian on Monday 22 March was followed by 200 people.
The next open virtual visit will be on Tuesday 30 March (English) (indico link).
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- 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
- ALICE celebrated International Women's Day on 8 March 2021: Photo Collage and Video Collage.
ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here.