No.180,

ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS

Gennady Zinovjev (18 April 1941 - 19 October 2021): our deepest condolences:
Link to the Obituary note from us in the CERN Bulletin!
 

    NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS

        • ALICE 3 Workshop: Towards a next-generation heavy-ion experiment for the 2030s: Published in CERN Bulletin 10 Nov 2021.
           
        • 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.
           
        • 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)
           
        • Update on the COVID19 Guidelines: https://hse.cern/covid-19-information
           
        • Help trace COVID-19: act early - self-declare/self-evaluate on Tramed. Subscribe to CERN-wide self-testing.
          Help keep CERN open: if you have cold, flu or COVID-19 symptoms, do not come on site, use Tramed.
           
          • Proximeter use is mandatory on-site;
          • Masks must be worn in all shared spaces at all times, unless seated in a cafeteria or restaurant and consuming food or drink;
          • Chairs must not be moved between tables in the cafeterias and restaurants.
             
        • Winter measures for office occupancy:
          • Where possible, office occupancy should be limited to one person;
          • Where multiple occupancy cannot be avoided, the use of Type I masks is mandatory at all times, even when seated at one’s personal desk;
          • Masks should be replaced after four hours of use;
          • Windows must be open all day long, with at least 20 cm opening, or opened fully for at least 10 minutes every 2 hours;
          • Where compatible with the needs of the service, rotation/teleworking may be done according to the current CERN rules.
             
        • Celebrate the end of the year responsibly.
           
        • COVID vaccination at CERN: Since 9 November, CERN’s COVID-19 vaccination centre is 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. Vaccination is free of charge. The vaccine used is Pfizer-BioNTech.

          To sign up for a vaccination at CERN, call the COVID Helpline at +41 22 766 7777.  Reservation via PLAMED will be possible from Monday 15 November.
           
        • Measures in France: From 15 December, people aged 65 and over must have a booster dose to extend the validity of their COVID certificates. As of December, boosters will be made available to those aged 50 and over. Furthermore, the wearing of masks in primary schools becomes obligatory throughout the country from Monday 15 November. Full details of the measures in France may be found here.
           
        • Measures in Switzerland: the Swiss Confederation and the cantons have launched a Swiss vaccination week, running from 8 to 14 November to encourage those who have not already done so to get vaccinated. Details are available here. Specific information for Geneva and Vaud can be found here.
           
        • Travel:
          - Details of conditions for international travel to and from France are available on the page here. (in French). Please note that some EU countries are subject to reinforced measures for those who are not vaccinated.

          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.

          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.
           
        • For any information and support: contact ALICE-covid19-coordination@cern.ch

          EVENTS OF INTEREST

          NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV

          All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here

          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:
            • Pilot beam tests wrap-up meeting was held at the last RC meeting this week.
            • Further analysis of pilot beam data and asynchronous reconstruction in progress.
            • ALICE resumes cosmic data taking and subsystem intervention continues.
            • Global DCS tests are ongoing.
               
          • Power cuts at Point 2:  in the coming weeks Point 2 will undergo several electrical interventions that will bring down multiple equipment. Visit guides should be aware of this as well. We expect the Exhibition, the Interactive Window, and/or the Virtual Visits videoconferencing systems to go offline during the following episodes:

            - 24/11: the whole of Point 2 will be OFF, access will be impossible (even just for a surface visit).
            - 30/11: Exhibition + Interactive Window will be off. The whole of CERN will be touched by this episode (annual auto-transfer test).
            - 14/12: Exhibition will remain OFF the whole day.

             
          • 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 => there will be a delay of the cavern closure because of the buckled RF finger in S23, but there is not yet any official number.

            CONFERENCES

            CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
            SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
               
              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 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

              DIVERSITY

              ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here.

               

              Have a great weekend and a great week ahead!

              JOB OPPORTUNITIES

               
              Title
               
              Institute
               
              Application deadline
              Assistant Professor, Experimental Nuclear & Particle Physics MIT, contact: Professor Gunther Roland 1 Dec 2021
              Applied Physicist (Computing) CERN 8 Dec 2021
              Postdoctoral Research Assistant John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science 6 Dec 2021
              Accelerator Physicist CERN 29 Nov 2021
              Postdoctoral Fellow on STAR BES-II analysis and future physics/instrumentation projects Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s (LBNL) Nuclear Science Division, Professor Xin Dong  
              LHCb Tier 1 Liaison Scientist Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwel 15 Nov 2021
              Research Associate in Particle Physics on LHCb Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwel 15 Nov 2021
              ALICE Postdoc position Creighton University, contact: Professor Janet Seger  
              Applied Physicist (trigger development) CERN 24 Nov 2021
              Postdoctoral Fellow to work in the ATLAS Group Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 22 Nov 2021
              Research Associate on Electron Ion Collider at RAL Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell 16 Dec 2021
              Tenure track assistant professor in Nuclear Theory University of Houston, contact: Professor Claudia Ratti 1 Dec 2021
              Postdoctoral position in Nuclear Theory/Lattice QCD University of Houston, contact: Professor Claudia Ratti 1 Dec 2021
              Research Scientist Yale University, contact: Professor Helen Caines and Professor John Harris  
              Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Experimental High-Energy Nuclear Physics Vanderbilt University 30 Nov 2021
              Wilson Fellowship in Experimental Physics Fermilab 19 Nov 2021
              Lederman Fellowship Fermilab 19 Nov 2021
              Associate Professors Accelerator Physics University of Oxford 22 Nov 2021
              Tenure-track Assistant Professor Ohio State University 30 Nov 2021