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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- ALICE Physics Forum - SQM and EPS-HEP previews: 8-15 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"
- Update on the COVID19 Guidelines: https://hse.cern/covid-19-information
Frequently Asked Questions: COVID FAQ page.
New this week:
- CERN's current teleworking measures have been extended until 14 May.
- 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 31 March: details in the website here.
- as of Saturday 3 April, the restrictions currently in force in 19 departments will be extended to the whole of mainland France for a period of four weeks.
- during this time, travel beyond 10km is forbidden without a compelling reason. Within 10km, an attestation is not required, but is essential for any travel beyond this limit, and during the 7.00 pm to 6 am curfew that remains in place. The CERN attestation is still valid for professional travels beyond 10km and during curfew hours (https://cesaam.web.cern.ch/).
- A revised vaccine roll-out plan is being put in place in France. Full details of all the new measures are available here.
- In the Department of Ain, the new measures include wearing of masks for all those over 11 when within 50 meters of a range of public buildings, as well as at all times while outdoors in a number of large communities. In the Pays de Gex, these are Divonne, Ferney-Voltaire, Gex and Saint-Genis-Pouilly. It is also forbidden to consume alcohol or play loud music in public places, and home-deliveries are banned after 10.00 pm. Events such as jumble sales and garage sales are also banned (brocantes, vide-greniers and braderies). The new restrictions are similar in Haute-Savoie.
- 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 7 April from 8h30 to 12h30 and from 13h30 to 17h30.
The ALICE secretariat will be exceptionally closed from 2 - 5 April.
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 6 Apr 2021, 14:00: "Bounds on Regge growth of flat space scattering from bounds on chaos" by Subham Dutta Chowdhury.
- Theory Colloquium, Wednesday 7 Apr 2021, 14:00: "Self-Interacting Dark Matter" by Hai-Bo Yu (University of California, Riverside).
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 8 Apr 2021, 15:00: "Dark matter capture in Celestial objects: Effect of multi-scattering and light mediator" by Aritra Gupta (ULB, Brussels).
- CERN Directorate Online Meeting - April 2021: Monday 12 Apr 2021, 16:00.
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
- New Public Note in CDS: "Physics Preliminary Summary: Measurement of the primary Lund plane density in pp collisions at √s=13 TeV with ALICE"
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 mechanical installation completed. starting to connect OB to services ongoing. Dry-runs during magnet tests performed.
- MFT: DCS and service commissioning ongoing. Noise scan was done and results similar to the surface tests. Power up tests during magnet tests were successful.
- TPC: cooling consolidation ongoing. Preparation for cooling fin for VTRx cooling started with the test sector in the cleanroom. First full continuous cosmic data taking with magnets performed.
- TOF: stress tests on FLP with full simulation of Pb-Pb at 50 kHz in one FLP and all links with O(10) multi-compressors performed. 1.7 GB/s compressed to 370 MB/s.
- O2: Post-MW3 activities ongoing (ECS-EPN integration, PHOS tests, MFT tests, MID tests).
- L3 magnet: L3 ramped up 30 kA successfully.
CONFERENCES
- HF-QGP Workshop on Rivet (STRONG2020) - online, 8 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.
- Sustainable HEP, CERN - online, 28 - 30 June 2021, abstract deadline 27 April.
- Future of Open Science OAI12 CERN - online, 6 - 10 September 2021, abstract deadline April 27.
- tCSC Thematic CERN School of Computing 2021, CERN - online, 14-18 June, registration deadline 30 April.
- HASCO school, Germany, 18 - 26 July, registration deadline: 16 April.
OUTREACH NEWS
- 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 on Tuesday 30 March was followed by 45 persons.
The next open virtual visit will be on Tuesday 12 April (indico link).
DIVERSITY
- ALICE celebrated International Women's Day on 8 March 2021: Photo Collage and Video Collage.
ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Title |
Institute |
Application deadline |
Associate Professor | Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP) at Osaka University, Japan | 31 May 2021 |
Detector physicist | The PRISMA Detector Laboratory at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany | 30 April 2021 |
Research Assistant/Associate in LHCb | University of Cambridge | 30 April 2021 |
Postdoctoral researcher position in ALICE | The Quark Gluon Plasma Laboratory (LQGP) of CEA Paris-Saclay | 20 April 2021 |
Postdoctoral Research Associate (ATLAS) | California State University, East Bay, and US-ATLAS | 30 April 2021 |
Two ALICE postdoc positions | University of Bergen | 5 April 2021 |
sPHENIX postdoc position | Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
Early Stage Researcher leading to a PhD degree | INFN Trieste | |
Assistant Project Scientist (EIC Project) | University of California, Riverside | 30 May |
sPHENIX postdoc position | BNL | |
Postdoctoral Research Associate | Warsaw University of Technology (STAR Group) | 30 April |
POLONEZ BIS funding scheme programme | Polish National Science Centre | |
Postdoctoral Research Associate In Experimental Nuclear, Particle, And Hadronic Physics | University of Connecticut | 9 April |
ALICE junior postdoctoral research position | IJCLab, Orsay | 1 May |