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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
LHC pilot run (19-31 October) provided ~42 hours of stable beam, which was most useful for detector commissioning. The event display shows tracks in ITS, TPC and MFT.
- ALICE Week (29 Nov – 3 Dec) will be held in mixed mode: zoom + in-person attendance (in the Main Auditorium/Council chamber). Looking forward your full participation. Please REGISTER on the indico link and indicate whether you plan to attend the in person or remotely.
- Election of the next ALICE Collaboration Board Chair will be held during the next ALICE Week in November. The Search Committee is organizing public interviews of the Candidates on 8 and 9 November at 14:00 hrs CET. More details are in the link here.
- Election of the next ALICE Spokesperson will take place in the week of 28 February 2022.
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- 2022 recurrent bookings for meetings: recurrent bookings are not automatically renewed, hence conveners planning to hold recurrent meetings in 2022 should send the meeting information to alice.secretariat@cern.ch by 6 December.
- Goethe University (Frankfurt) has become a new partner in National High-Performance Computing Alliance. The particle physics computing in Germany and ALICE computing will very much rely on this. More information in the link here.
- "Protons back with a splash": Take a look at the story in the News Analysis segment of CERN Courier Nov/Dec 2021 Edition.
- "The four LHC experiments are getting ready for pilot beams" in CERN Bulletin.
- Call for 2022 PS/SPS proton and ion fixed target beam time requests. The deadline for submission is Monday, 15 November 2021.
- CERN is currently COVID-19 LEVEL 2 – Yellow. (https://hse.cern/covid-19-information)
- Respect for CERN’s measures reduces transmission on-site:
- Proximeter use is mandatory on-site;
- Masks must be worn in all shared spaces at all times, unless seated in a cafeteria or restaurant while consuming food or drink;
- Seating limits indicated on each table in the cafeterias and restaurants must be respected and chairs must not be moved between tables.
- Update on the COVID19 Guidelines: https://hse.cern/covid-19-information
- Self-testing at CERN for anyone without 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.
- Disposal of used masks: Used masks may be disposed of in ordinary bins
- COVID vaccination at CERN: As of 9 November, CERN’s COVID-19 vaccination centre will be able to vaccinate anyone holding a CERN access card and resident in France or Switzerland including family members of CERN personnel, retirees and contractor personnel.
- Measures in France: As of 26 October, the French government published information about who is eligible for a booster dose. Full details of the measures in France may be found here. A summary of what you need to know in France is provided here.
- Measures in Switzerland: Swissmedic approves third vaccination for certain population groups. All the Federal Council’s press releases can be found here.
- Travel:
- Details of conditions for international travel to and from France are available at the page here.
- Switzerland provides a useful tool to check the conditions of entry that you need to fulfill according to your personal situation, and where you are traveling from: link here.
- If you are traveling, it is important to make sure you fulfill the requirements of the country you are traveling to before starting your journey. To enter the United States from 8 November, for example, proof of full vaccination is a requirement as well as a negative test: Link here.
- For any information and support: contact ALICE-covid19-coordination@cern.ch
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- TH QCD Coffee, Friday 5 Nov 2021, 14:00: "Monte Carlo evaluation of multi-loop integrals without contour deformation" by Roberto Pittau (CERN/University of Granada).
- TH Journal Club on Strings & QFT, Monday 8 Nov 2021, 13:30: "The p-spin glass model and fragmentation" by Tarek Anous (University of Amsterdam).
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 9 Nov 2021, 14:00: "The Microstate Physics of JT gravity and Supergravity" by Clifford Johnson.
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday, 11 Nov 2021, 13:30: "Particle Physics with Quantum Computers" by Marat Freytsis (Rutgers University).
- TH String Theory Seminar, Thursday 11 Nov 2021, 15:00: "Revisiting Coleman-de Luccia transitions in the AdS regime using holography" by Elias Kiritsis.
- BE Seminar, Friday 12 Nov 2021, 16:00: "Studies for current and future high intensity experiments at the CERN P42 and K12 beam lines" by Gian Luigi D'Alessandro (University of London (GB)).
NEW PAPERS ON THE 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 Shift Leaders and the shifters, running the RC Daily Meeting to collect relevant information and to support Run Coordination in defining new RUN 3 data taking and operation procedures. Signup for Run Manager role using the Google Sheet here.
- General Shift Booking for 2022 will open soon.
- Main highlights of this week:
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- ALICE successfully completed LHC pilot beam data taking.
- 60 M V0ORA events were recorded.
- Further analysis of pilot beam data and asynchronous reconstruction in progress.
- ALICE resumes cosmic data taking this week and subsystem intervention continues.
- ALICE successfully completed LHC pilot beam data taking.
- 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)
- ATHIC2021, Incheon, Korea - hybrid, 5 - 9 November
- Latin American Symposium on HEP, Sao Paolo, Brazil - online, 8-12 November
- International Workshop on HEP, Protvino, Russia - online, 8-12 November
- HECEPC 2021 Shanghai - hybrid, 8-12 November
- RTNFB, Sao Paolo, Brazil - online, 9-11 November
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- International Workshop on HEP, Moscow, Russia - online, 8-12 November, abstract deadline 6 November
- Miami 2021, US - online, 15-22 December, abstract deadline 18 November
- Lake Louise Winter Institute 2022, Canada, 20-25 February, abstract deadline 1 December
- Quark Matter 2022, Krakow, Poland (central submission), 4-10 April, abstract deadline 30 November
SCHOOLS
- Zimanyi School 2021 - hybrid, 6 December, registration deadline 7 November
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 have started after the pilot beam.
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:
3 Nov 2021: ALICE exhibition and cavern filming by Korean TV (KBS) crew. They are producing a documentary on "Science walk - a world seen through particles", which aims to make quantum science accessible to the general Korean public.
- The ALICE cartoon (available in 6 languages) can now be found on the CERN Document Server: English, French, Russian, Italian, Dutch, and Hungarian
If you want to translate it and produce a version in your language, please contact alice.outreach@cern.ch
- The link to all the CERN Clubs can be accessed here.