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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
9 Oct 2021: during the second test of TI2 transfer line upstream splash muons were detected and tracked through the Muon Forward Tracker!
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ALICE 3 Workshop, 18–19 Oct 2021: the ALICE 3 workshop will cover the future heavy-ion programme for Run 5 and beyond based on a novel detector. We would warmly invite everyone who can be at CERN to attend in person. For planning in line with Covid regulations, we would like to ask those of you who intend to attend in person to register on indico.
- ALICE Physics Forum, 20 and 22 Oct 2021: for the upcoming mini-week, we will have a rich Physics Forum agenda, with 13-14 paper proposals/updates. Therefore the PF will be held on Wednesday from 10:00 to 18:00 and on Friday from 10:00 to 13:00.
- Second round of an LHC-wide mentoring program: The goal is to connect young scientists who are interested in a career in research with researchers who are established in the field. Each mentee-mentor relationship will have its own set of specific goals, as proposed by the mentee and agreed upon with the mentor. The application forms are in the links for Mentees and Mentors. The applications are open now until 22 October 2021.
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- CERN is currently COVID-19 LEVEL 2 – Yellow. (https://hse.cern/covid-19-information)
- Proximeter use on-site is mandatory, even in level 2 – Yellow.
- Update on the COVID19 Guidelines: https://hse.cern/covid-19-information
- Self-testing at CERN: is for those coming on-site and exhibiting no symptoms. Sign-up for a self-test using the PLAMED tool.
If you have symptoms, even mild ones, do not come on site, contact the COVID Helpline at +41 22 766 7777 to arrange for an RT-PCR test at the Proxilis medical laboratory in Meyrin.
- Measures in France: Full details of the measures in France may be found here. A summary of what you need to know in France is provided here. As of 1 October, all children aged between 12 and 17 will be required to show the “pass sanitaire”.
- Measures in Switzerland: The full details of the recent measures for Switzerland can be found here. The Swiss Federal Council is discussing plans for a new vaccination drive: link.
- Travel:
- France updated its classification of countries as green, orange or red on 14 October. The current classification, along with details of conditions for international travel, is available at the page here.
- France updated its classification of countries as green, orange or red on 14 October. The current classification, along with details of conditions for international travel, is available at the page here.
- For any information and support: contact ALICE-covid19-coordination@cern.ch
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar, Friday 15 Oct 2021, 11:00: "Time resolution of silicon sensors" by Werner Riegler (CERN)
- TH QCD Coffee, Friday 15 Oct 2021, 14:00: "Local Unitarity" by Zeno Capatti (ETH Zürich)
- BE Seminar, Friday 15 Oct 2021, 16:00: "Non-linear dynamics modelling in accelerators, applied to beam-beam long-range compensation for HL-LHC" by Kyriacos Skoufaris (CERN)
- ExaHealth 2021: Exascale computing and machine learning for public health, 18 Oct 2021, 13:00
- TH Journal Club on String Theory, Monday 18 Oct 2021, 13:30: "Journal Club session on dispersion relations" by Alexander Zhiboedov (CERN)
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 19 Oct 2021, 11:00: "New tests of lepton universality using rare B decays with 𝐾0𝑆 mesons in the final state at LHCb" by Harry Victor Cliff (University of Cambridge (GB))
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 19 Oct 2021, 14:00: "Gluon scattering in AdS from CFT" by Pietro Ferrero
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
NEW PUBLIC NOTE
NEW PAPERS ON ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here
- General balance functions of identified charged hadron pairs of (π,K,p) in Pb−Pb collisions at √𝑠NN =2.76 TeV: arXiv link, Internal link.
- Measurement of inclusive charged-particle b-jet production in pp and p-Pb collisions at √sNN =5.02 TeV: arXiv link, Internal link.
- Production of light (anti)nuclei in pp collisions at √𝑠=13TeV: arXiv link, Internal link.
- Inclusive quarkonium production in pp collisions at √s=5.02 TeV: arXiv link, Internal link.
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 and preparing for the pilot beam tests. The main highlights of this week:
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- There will be another TED shots on Sunday, 17 October 1-4pm. This will use the pilot beam intensity and injection wlll be synchronized with the clock.
- Regular cosmic data taking with ITS+TPC+TRD+TOF+MFT+MCH+MID and online processing
- Validation of online processing, QC, and Event Display is continued.
- LS2 Schedule:
- Global commissioning until 12 November 2021
- LHC pilot beam test in weeks 42-43: No access to UX25 w42-43. UX25 cavern closed today at 17:00
- There will be a AUG test at Point 2 on 24 November All equipments will be powered off and Point 2 will be inaccessible.
- 11 weeks YETS from 15 November 2021 to 31 January 2022
- Standard interventions on primary infrastructure (cooling, electricity)
- Last chance to work on the detectors (TOF DCDC, MFT VTRx, etc)
- Restart global commissioning with magnets on 1 February 2022
- LS2 end date: Monday 21 February 2022
- Beams in the machine from week 10 (7 March 2022)
- First stable beams expected by week 18 (6 May 2022)
- Global commissioning until 12 November 2021
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Blois2021, Blois, France, 17-22 October
- ALICE 3 workshop, CERN, 18-19 October
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Latin American Symposium on HEP, Sao Paolo, Brazil - online, 8-12 November, abstract deadline 17 October
- International Workshop on HEP, Moscow, Russia - online, 8-12 November, abstract deadline 6 November
- Chiral Dynamics 2021, Beijing, China, 15 November, abstract deadline 25 October
- Light Cone 2021, Jeju Island, Korea, 29 November - 4 December, abstract deadline 31 October
- Bormio, Italy, 24 January, abstract deadline 2 November
- VCI 2021, Vienna, Austria, 21 February, abstract deadline 17 October
SCHOOLS
- Baryons 2021 school, Sevilla, Spain, 19 October, registration deadline 18 October
OUTREACH NEWS
- All group guided tours onsite are cancelled until the end of 2021 at least.
- In addition, CERN Visits Service will not accept any guided tour request before April 2022, considering they already had accepted 362 group guided tours for 12’386 visitors between January and March 2022.
- Virtual, VIP and press visits are already taking place.
- 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.
Max. visitor group size for underground: 8 (including the guide)
Lift max capacity of 2 persons
Max. number of visitors inside the ALICE exhibition area: 20
Total number of visitors present at ALICE site at any moment: 30
- 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
- Recent visits:
- 8 October: virtual tour of the ARC and talk by Luciano Musa for event at the University of Strasbourg on the occasion of 50 years of IN2P3.
- 12 October: underground visit of students, “Netzwerk Teilchenwelt” programme
- 15 October: underground visit of donor to CERN and Society foundation Achille Vitale
- 15 October: underground visit of CERN fellows and technical students
- 8 October: virtual tour of the ARC and talk by Luciano Musa for event at the University of Strasbourg on the occasion of 50 years of IN2P3.
- The link to all the CERN Clubs can be accessed here.