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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- "Protons back with a splash": News story in CERN Courier, 19 October 2021 (to be published in Nov/Dec 2021 edition)
- "The four LHC experiments are getting ready for pilot beams": CERN News story, 18 October 2021.
- Call for 2022 PS/SPS proton and ion fixed target beam time requests. The deadline for submission is Monday, 15 November 2021.
- Election of the next ALICE Collaboration Board Chair during the next ALICE Week in November 2021.
- Election of the next ALICE Spokesperson will take place in the week of 28 February 2022.
- 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.
- For any information and support: contact ALICE-covid19-coordination@cern.ch
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- TH QCD Coffee, Friday 22 Oct 2021, 14:00: "Project Caesar, a blueprint for numerical evaluation of Feynman integrals" by Johann Usovitsch (CERN).
- CERN Colloquium, Monday 25 Oct 2021, 16:30: "Safeguarding our Climate - Towards a Sustainable Future" by Prof. Johan Rockstroem (Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research).
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 26 Oct 2021, 14:00: "The U-plane of rank-one 4d N=2 KK theories" by Cyril Closset.
- CERN Computing Colloquium, Wednesday 27 Oct 2021, 10:30: "Accelerating Discovery to Solve Grand Challenges" by Dr Dario Gil (Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research).
- Theory Colloquium, Wednesday 27 Oct 2021, 14:00: "Detecting Dark Matter in Celestial Bodies" by Rebecca Leane (SLAC).
- International Dark Matter Day, 27 October 2021.
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 28 Oct 2021, 13:30: "Forward Physics Facility: Sites, Experiments, and Physics Potential" by Felix Kling (SLAC).
- Memorial event for Jean Cleymans (1944 - 2021): Thursday, 28 October 2021.
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
- K∗(892)0 and φ(1020) production in p-Pb collisions at √𝑠NN= 8.16 TeV: arXiv link, Internal link.
- Investigating charm production and fragmentation via azimuthal correlations of prompt D mesons with charged particles in pp collisions at √𝑠=13 TeV: arXiv link, Internal link.
- Measurement of prompt D+s-meson production and azimuthal anisotropy in Pb-Pb collisions at √𝑠NN=5.02 TeV: arXiv link, Internal link.
- Prompt D0, D+, and D∗+ production in Pb-Pb collisions at √𝑠NN = 5.02 TeV: arXiv link, Internal link.
- 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.
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
- 2022 Call for Run Managers candidate for ALICE data taking operations: The Run Manager is a key figure in running the day-by-day operations, supervising the SL and the shifters, running the RC Daily Meeting to collect relevant information and to support Run Coordination in defining new RUN3 data taking and operation procedures. Apply for Run Manager role using the Google Sheet here.
- ALICE is in the global commissioning phase and preparing for the pilot beam tests. Details are in the Technical Board presentations.
Main highlights of this week:
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- Cosmic data taking with ITS+TPC+TRD+TOF+MFT+MCH+MID with online processing continued till the start of machine commissioning.
- ALICE is in Super Safe during machine commissioning and Regular technical runs with available detectors.
- Validation of online processing, QC, and Event Display continues.
- Cosmic data taking with ITS+TPC+TRD+TOF+MFT+MCH+MID with online processing continued till the start of machine commissioning.
- LS2 Schedule:
- Global commissioning until 12 November 2021
- 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)
- RAPID2021, Jammu, India - online, 25-29 October
- Heavy quarkonia at the EIC, Stony Brook, US - online, 25-27 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
- Miami 2021, US - online, 15-22 December, abstract deadline 18 November
- Bormio, Italy, 24 January, abstract deadline 2 November
- CHEP 2022, Jefferson Lab, US, 16-20 May, abstract deadline 19 November
SCHOOLS
None
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.
- Virtual, VIP and press visits are taking place regularly.
- ALICE underground visits are blocked due to the LHC Pilot beam, and will restart in November.
These are 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
- Recent visits:
- 21 October: Visits of artists Patricia Domínguez, Chloé Delarue, and Armin Linke (arts@CERN).
- The link to all the CERN Clubs can be accessed here.