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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
CERN Courier Sep/Oct 2021 Energy Frontier page 15 features our result on Charm breaks fragmentation universality:
Charm–quark fragmentation fractions into charm hadrons measured in pp collisions at √s = 5.02 TeV (black squares), in e+e– collisions (purple and yellow markers) and in ep collisions (closed and open red circles). The D* meson is depicted separately since its contribution is also included in the ground-state charm mesons.
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Calls for nominations:
- Conveners of PWGs of DQ, HF, LF, MM: nominations should be sent to andrea.dainese@pd.infn.it before 15 September 2021.
- Editorial Board Chair: nominations should be sent to alice-spokesperson@cern.ch before 15 September 2021.
- Deputy Run Coordinator: nominations should be sent to alice-spokesperson@cern.ch before 15 September 2021.
- Collaboration Board Chair: nominations should be sent to ALICE-CB-Chair-Nominations-2021@cern.ch before 30 September 2021.
- Conveners of PWGs of DQ, HF, LF, MM: nominations should be sent to andrea.dainese@pd.infn.it before 15 September 2021.
- CERN is currently COVID-19 LEVEL 2 – Yellow. (https://hse.cern/covid-19-information)
Level 2 measures are in the link here.
- Update on the COVID19 Guidelines: https://hse.cern/covid-19-information
Recent health measures: A reminder of the COVID-19 measures in place
Frequently Asked Questions: COVID FAQ page.
- Wearing of Proximeters is again mandatory at CERN, even in level 2 - Yellow: as clearly reminded in the Covid news of yesterday.
- Absence management and the return to school: With the return of children to school, and in anticipation of COVID-19 related measures, provisions for parents have been reinstated in the Absence Management Table, line B5.
- Self-testing at CERN for asymptomatic people: Self-testing at CERN is for those coming on-site and exhibiting no symptoms. If you have symptoms, even mild ones, do not come on site, self-evaluate and self-declare on Tramed. The Medical Service can arrange for you to have an RT-PCR test off-site.
e-learning module for self-testing is available here. Sign-up for a self-test using the Plamed tool.
- Self-test on return from vacation: While testing is recommended for everyone with a frequency of one test every two weeks, CERN strongly recommends us to make use of the service immediately on return from vacation.
- Evolution of COVID-19 cases at CERN can be found here.
- Vaccination certificates issued outside the EU and Switzerland: For holders of vaccination certificates issued outside the EU, the procedure for applying to convert your certificate into a French COVID certificate is described here. The form to request the conversion is available here.
Vaccination certificates issued by the NHS in the UK are recognised as valid by the French TousAntiCovid verif and SwissCovid apps.
- Measures in France: updated 30 August.
A booster shot is now recommended for those aged 65 and over. Details are here.
France updated its classification of countries as green, orange or red on 27 August. The current classification, along with details of conditions for international travel, is available at the page here.
- Measures in Switzerland: updated 25 August.
There remain no countries requiring quarantine on arrival in Switzerland.
For any information and support: contact ALICE-covid19-coordination@cern.ch
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- EP-ESE Electronics Seminars, Tuesday 14 Sep 2021, 09:00: "A journey from design to full detector commisse Trioning - Readout Electronics for the Scintillating Fibracker of the LHCb Upgrade" by Xiaoxue Han (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)).
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 14 Sep 2021, 11:00: "Observation and study of the doubly charmed Tcc+ tetraquark at LHCb" by Ivan Polyakov (Syracuse University (US)).
- Library Science Talk, 14 Sep 2021, 17:15: "The social construction of risk in trustworthy digital repository certification" - Rebecca Frank, Humboldt-Universität Berlin.
- moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/1055170/">The dream of non-perturbative precision RG" by Slava Rychkov (IHES).
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 15 Sep 2021, 16:30: "Dark Photon, CMB and radio data in our inhomogeneous universe" by Andrea Caputo (University of Tel Aviv and Weizmann).
- Sparks! Serendipity Forum, CERN, 17-19 Sep 2021.
- CERN Colloquium, CERN Colloquium, 16 Sep 2021: "The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission in Jezero Crater, Mars" by Dr Jesse Tarnas (NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, US).
- "Data Lake as a Service for Open Science" Friday 17 Sep 2021, 10:00 by Muhammad Aditya Hilmy, Riccardo Di Maria (CERN).
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here
- "Prompt and non-prompt J/ψ production cross sections at midrapidity in proton-proton collisions at √s = 5.02 and 13 TeV". More information in the internal link.
- "Inclusive J/ψ production at midrapidity in pp collisions at √s = 13 TeV". More information in the internal link.
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
ALICE is in the global commissioning phase:
- Shift Booking:
- We are still missing a few DCS and SL/ECS blocks in September and October.
- We are still missing a few DCS and SL/ECS blocks in September and October.
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ITS+MFT+TPC combined EPN workflow is being tested. Dataflow is OK with sync. processing. Further integration is ongoing.
- TPC finished Kr calibration and TRD will start Kr calibration during this weekend.
- ITS and MFT are progressing with noise calibrations.
- Activities related to the VTRx replacement ongoing for ITS.
- MCH ST2 commissioning ongoing.
- Next week, we will integrate MID, MCH, TOF, and TRD in ITS+MFT+TPC.
LS2 Milestones:
| Activity | Milestone (v47) |
| ITS | 25 Jan – 12 May OB: 16 Mar – 23 Apr, IB: 6 May – 12 May |
| ITS standalone commissioning | 13 May - 18 Jun |
| FIT-A | 21 – 25 Jun Transport. to P2: 18 Jun |
| RB24 beampipe | 28 Jun – 13 Jul |
| FDD-A | 14 – 15 Jul |
| BCM-A | 14 - 15 Jul |
| ZEM | 15 Jul |
| Close L3 doors | 28 - 30 Jul |
| LHC pilot beam test | W42-43 |
| ALICE global commissioning time | 4 months (18weeks) |
| End of LS2 – stop UX25 access | 21 Feb 2022 |
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- PSD12, Birmingham, UK - hybrid, 12-17 September
- SIF congress, Milan, Italy, 13-17 September
- EXA 2021, Vienna, Austria - online, 13-17 September
- JPS autumn meeting, Japan - online, 14-17 September
- PIC 2021, Aachen, Germany, 14-17 September
- STRONG-2020, York, UK - online, 14-16 September
- Erice School, Italy, 16-22 Sep-2021
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- STRONG-2020, York, UK - online, 14 September, abstract deadline 14-16 September
- MPI workshop, Lisbon, Portugal - hybrid, 11-15 October, abstract deadline 19 September
- Blois2021, Blois, France, 17 - 22 October, abstract deadline 24 September
- International Workshop on HEP, Moscow, Russia - online, 8-12 November, abstract deadline 6 November
- Light Cone 2021, Jeju Island, Korea, 29 November - 4 December, abstract deadline 31 October
- Pixel 2021, Santa Fe, USA, 13-18 December, abstract deadline 30 September
- Lepton Photon 2021 - hybrid, 10-14 January, abstract deadline 15 September
- VCI 2021, Vienna, Austria, 21-25 February, abstract deadline 3 October
SCHOOLS
- Baryons 2021 school, Sevilla, Spain, 19 October, registration deadline 18 October
OUTREACH NEWS
- COVID Level 2: CERN is gradually reopening to visitors. Details are in the CERN visits website.
- ALICE underground visits: are now open to people having a valid CERN access card, with a limited number of visitors, and in respect of special COVID rules. The guidelines are documented here.
- ALICE Virtual Visits: are announced in the official CERN catalogue. A list of open virtual visits is announced in the Visits link.
ALICE needs volunteers for virtual as well as underground visits. Virtual visits require having 2 or 3 guides. If interested, please get in touch with alice-visits, or alice-outreach-virtual-visits
- Virtual visits to ALICE:
- Wednesday 8 September: Virtual visit for the participants of OAI12 (The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication)
- Wednesday 8 September: Visit of artist in residence Rasheedah Phillips (winner of the Collide residency award
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- ALICE LEGO Model: The LEGO model of ALICE has been designed by both high school and university students in Germany as part of a workshop series organised jointly by Christian Klein-Boesing, Marcus Mikorski and Sascha Mehlhase.
- CERN Alumni Second Collisions (1-3 October)
- 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.
DIVERSITY
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
| Title |
Institute |
Application deadline |
| Post-Doctoral Fellow(s) in Particle Phenomenology and Applications of Machine Learning at Colliders | SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, India and Institute for Collider Particle Physics, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa |
25 Sep 2021 |
| Postdoctoral Research Associate | Wayne State University Contact: Prof. Claude A. Pruneau, |
31 Oct 2021 |
| Research Associate / Assistant Professor (Research), non tenure-track | Wayne State University Contact: Prof. Sergei A. Voloshin |
15 Nov 2021 |
| Postdoctoral fellowship in heavy-ion physics with LHCb | Leprince-Ringuet Laboratory, CNRS | 13 Oct 2021 |
| DESY-Fellowships – experimental particle physics | DESY | 30 Sep 2021 |
| Assistant Professor of Physics | University of Michigan | 1 Nov 2021 |
| Calorimeter detector physicist | CERN | 23 Sep 2021 |
| Accelerator Physicist | CERN | 21 Sep 2021 |
| Rokos-Clarendon Associate Professor of Experimental Neutrino Physics | University of Oxford | 11 Oct 2021 |
| Post Doctoral Scholar | Lehigh University (Professors Rosi Reed and Anders Knospe) | listed until 1 Feb 2022 |
| Faculty Position in Experimental Elementary Particle Physics | The School of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) at EPFL | 15 Nov 2021 |
| Particle Physics Division Head | Fermilab | 30 Sep 2021 |
| Postdoctoral fellowships | The Muon Radiography team of the center for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3) of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1 Oct 2021 |
Please refer to Job Announcements link for details.
Have a great weekend and a great week ahead!