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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
The colourful walkways of our experiment: in case you are missing it ....
- ALICE Week (29 Nov – 3 Dec) will be held in mixed mode: zoom and in-person attendance (in the Main Auditorium). Looking forward your full participation.
The in-person event in the Auditorium is reserved for those who have had their Indico registrations accepted, and are able to present on a daily-basis a valid COVID certificate recognised in Switzerland or a negative COVID-19 self-test result - done at CERN (validity 72 hours). If you received your last dose of vaccine abroad or a have had a positive PCR test abroad proving a SARS-CoV-2 infection, you can apply for your COVID-19 certificate here. Please note: you will need to collect a registration badge to be able to enter the Auditorium.
- Election of the next ALICE Collaboration Board Chair will be held on Wednesday 1 Dec 2021, 15:00 in the Collaboration Board meeting. Recording of the interviews of the candidates for the election are available in the link here.
- Election of the next ALICE Spokesperson will take place in the week of 28 February 2022. Nominations should be sent by email before 12 December 2021.
- Next Physics Forum meeting for paper proposal will be held on Monday 6 December at 17:00.
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- CERN is currently COVID-19 LEVEL 2 – Yellow. (https://hse.cern/covid-19-information)
Keeping CERN open as case numbers rise depends on every one of us.
- Reinforcing level 2 - Yellow measures: At its meeting of Tuesday 23 November, the Enlarged Directorate took the decision to stay at Level 2 – Yellow, while adapting the measures to grant more flexibility in view of the evolving situation.
- As of 29 November, where the needs of the service allow, and in agreement with their supervisors, anyone may telework up to 60%. As a precautionary measure, those in shared offices are strongly encouraged to use this flexibility and telework alternately to avoid being in the office at the same time as colleagues.
- 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.
- Avoid social gatherings involving your whole team; follow CERN’s measures and make use of CERN’s self-testing to make any social gatherings as safe as possible.
- Organisation of events at CERN: participants must wear Type 1 masks provided by CERN, with the exception of speakers who can remove their masks when presenting. CERN personnel must use their Proximeters. All participants must present a COVID certificate, or proof of a negative CERN RT-PCR pooling test offered by CERN. The validity of CERN’s test is currently 72 hours.
- COVID vaccination at CERN: 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.
To sign up for a vaccination at CERN, call the COVID Helpline at +41 22 766 7777. Reservation via PLAMED is possible.
- CERN’s flu vaccination campaign ends on 26 November.
- Measures in France: A summary of what you need to know in France is provided here.
- wearing a mask is once again be compulsory in closed public places, including those subject to the “pass sanitaire”.
- As of 27 November, the vaccine booster will be open to all people aged 18 and over, as early as five months after the second dose injection or the last COVID-19 infection.
- For vaccinated people, the validity of the “Pass sanitaire” will be conditional on having the booster dose: from 15 December for adults 65 years of age and over, and from 15 January for adults aged 18-65, for all those whose second dose was received more than 7 months ago.
- From 29 November, PCR and antigenic tests will grant access to the “Pass sanitaire” during 24 hours maximum (instead of 72 hours).
- Measures in Switzerland: While an official implementation date has yet to be confirmed, Switzerland has authorised the administration of a booster dose to those aged 16 and over. The booster may also be administered to those aged 12 and over who are considered to be at risk. You can check your eligibility for a booster dose in Switzerland using the form here.
- Travel:
- Details of conditions for international travel to and from France are available on the page here. 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
- BE Seminars, Friday 26 Nov 2021, 16:00: "A Robotic System for Remote Interventions in the FCC Complex" by Hannes Gamper (Johannes Kepler University (AT)).
- TH Journal Club on Strings & QFT, Monday 29 Nov 2021, 13:30: "Operator growth in 2d CFT" by Shouvik Datta (CERN).
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 30 Nov 2021, 11:00: "Probing BSM with the Higgs boson Width at CMS" by Ulascan Sarica (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US)).
- Theory Colloquium, Wednesday 1 Dec 2021, 14:00: "Topic to be announced" by Riccardo Rattazzi (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH)).
- "Show scientifique - Drôle de physique !" 1 December 2021.
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 2 Dec 2021, 13:30: "Primordial black hole dark matter..." by Elena Pinetti.
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here
- "Observation of a multiplicity dependence in the 𝑝T-differential charm baryon-to-meson ratios in proton-proton collisions at √𝑠=13 TeV", More details are in the link here.
- "Characterizing the initial conditions of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC with mean transverse momentum and anisotropic flow correlations", More details 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: 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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- Further analysis of pilot beam data and asynchronous reconstruction in progress.
- Subsystem intervention continues.
- New features in AliECS and EPN workflow creation under testing
- ARC was off this week during AUG tests.
- 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:
- 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:
- LHC pilot beam test in weeks 42-43 done
- 13 weeks YETS from 15 November 2021 to 11 February 2022
- Standard interventions on primary infrastructure (cooling, electricity)
- Last chance to work on the detectors (TOF DCDC, MFT VTRx, etc) - Restart magnet in week 10.
- LS2 end date: Underground access ends on 25 or 31 March 2022 (to be confirmed).
- LHC pilot beam test in weeks 42-43 done
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- ACAT 2021, Daejeon, South Korea, 29 November - 3 December
- Light Cone 2021, Jeju Island, Korea - hybrid, 29 November - 4 December
- DAE Nuclear Physics Symposium, Mumbai, India - online, 1 - 5 December
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Lake Louise Winter Institute 2022, Canada, 20-25 February, abstract deadline 1 December
- Quark Matter 2022, Krakow, Poland (central submission for talks, individual submission for posters), 4-10 April, abstract deadline 30 November.
- 37th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, 27 February - 5 March 2022, abstract deadline 15 January 2022
SCHOOLS
None
OUTREACH NEWS
- All group guided tours onsite are cancelled until the end of 2021 at least.
- CERN Visits Service will not accept any guided tour request before April 2022.
- ALICE access restrictions:
- From now on, access is expected to be allowed until: Weeks 5&6/2022: close miniframe shielding – various access perturbations UX25 cavern; Week 7/2022: close PX24 shaft – various access perturbations UX25
- Right low the L3 door side I (right side if you look from the Low Beta) is open, it will be closed end of January 2022. Access will not be closed during the operation.
- Maximum occupancy in the Exhibition and the main conference room at Point-2 is restricted to 10 persons.
- ALICE visits:
- Virtual, VIP and press visits are taking place regularly.
- ALICE underground visits 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. If interested, please get in touch with alice-visits, or alice-outreach-virtual-visits
- Recent visits:
- 22.11 British colleagues
- 23.11 British colleagues
- 25.11 Russian colleagues
- 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.