No.193,
Twiki link
https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ALICE/AliceNewsletter18Feb2022

ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS

  • Physics Forum - QM 2022 previews ongoing (14 - 25 Feb)
     
  • ALICE Week: 28 February - 4 March: the next ALICE Week will be held in virtual format. The agenda and connection details will be communicated soon.
     
  • Ongoing election for ALICE junior representatives: The election is open until 23 February 2022, 23:59 (CERN time). The voting link has been distributed to juniors via email together with a recording of the discussion with the candidates. Six candidates are running for the position:
    • Anjaly Menon (University of Houston (US))
    • Archita Rani Dash (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (DE))
    • Carolina Anna Reetz (Ruprecht Karls Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
    • Ezra Douglas Lesser (University of California Berkeley (US))
    • Livia Terlizzi (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))
    • Luca Quaglia (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))
    The candidate statements are in the link here.
     
  • Q&A sessions for Spokesperson candidates: Wednesday 23 February 15h-17h and Friday 25th February 15h-17h.
     

NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

  • Covid-19: CERN is currently in Level 3 – Orange.
    Please refer to the link for further details about Level 3. For the complete picture, please consult the link here.
     
    • With incidence rates decreasing and both Host States relaxing their COVID-19 restrictions, CERN is also adapting its measures accordingly. As announced last week, the situation is under review to determine whether conditions allow for further easing of the measures in place, notably with a transition to COVID Level 2 – Yellow. Should the conclusions of this review be positive, ten days’ notice will be given to allow each and every one of us time to adapt to returning to work on site.
    • Despite recent waiving of protection measures announced by the Swiss Federal Council, distancing, mask wearing and hand sanitizing remain mandatory on all CERN sites. These measures are in line with regulations still applicable in France and have proven to be highly effective in limiting transmission on site. With the virus still circulating at a significant level, it is thus important to continue to respect them in shared indoor spaces.
  • Self-testing at CERN for those without symptoms. Self test available also at ALICE Point-2. You are encouraged to take a test at least once per week. You must have completed beforehand the eLearning: COVID-19 - Self-testing at CERN / Auto-tests au CERN and you must sign-up for each self-test using the PLAMED tool.
     
  • COVID-19 vaccination at CERN: There are currently many slots available, with slots becoming free on a daily basis due to no-shows. If you are eligible to be vaccinated at CERN and have not yet received your dose, you can reserve a slot on PLAMED. The vaccination centre in Building 693 will close on 25 February. COVID-19 vaccinations will be provided at a lower scale in the CERN infirmary (Building 57) from the beginning of March.
     
  • Measures in France:  Current measures are summarised here: (last updated 16 February). As of 28 February, masks will no longer be compulsory in closed spaces requiring a pass vaccinal. Full information about timing for boosters and implications for the validity of the pass vaccinal are available in the link here.
     
  • Measures in Switzerland: The Swiss Federal Council has announced that since 17 February, all measures in place in Switzerland are dropped, with the exception of mask-wearing on public transport and in healthcare institutions until the end of March to protect those at high risk, after which the situation status will return to normal. Masks and COVID certificates are therefore no longer required to enter shops, restaurants, cultural venues and other public settings and events, but the requirement to isolate in the event of a positive test will remain. For detailed information, please consult the Swiss Federal Council press release.
     
  • Travel:
    • France: Details of conditions for international travel to and from France are unchanged since last week, and are available on this page and here (last updated 14 February). There are now no countries on the ‘red list’. Fully vaccinated people (with an EU-recognised vaccine) are no longer required to take a COVID-19 test or to isolate on arrival in France, whatever country they are travelling from. Since 1 February, in order for their vaccination schedule to continue to be recognised as complete, persons aged 18 years or older wishing to enter French territory must have received a booster dose of a mRNA vaccine no later than nine months after receiving the last mandatory dose. People arriving in France must still complete a declaration form.
       
    • Switzerland: Conditions for entry to Switzerland no longer require to provide proof of vaccination, recovery or a negative test or to complete an entry form. Although COVID certificates only valid in Switzerland will no longer be issued as of 17 February, Swiss authorities will continue to issue COVID certificates recognised by the EU to facilitate travels abroad.
       
  • For any information and support: contact ALICE-covid19-coordination@cern.ch
     
  • ALICE secretariat opening hours (21-25 February)
    • Tuesday: Open
    • Wednesday: Open
    Should the opening planning changes, we will be notified by e-mail.
    Nathalie, Guylaine & Julia are available by telephone, Zoom and e-mail from Monday to Friday, 8h30-12h30 and 13h30-17h30.

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

  • Remote operations are back for QC and ECS (up to May 31st) with Virtual Shift Blocks: more information on the RC web page
  • Still 2 Run Manager slots available in April and August. Please contact RC to sign up.
  • General shifts starting on 21 February: please sign up.
  • Operations Highlights
    • Milestone Week 2 ongoing: performed calibrations validations for ITS, MFT, MCH, MID, TPC, TOF.
  • ALICE LS2 schedule:
    • ALICE cavern to close by week 9 (2 March) and restart magnets in week 10 (7 March).
    • Underground access ends on Thursday 24 March 2022 evening.
    • DSO test on 25 March, followed by 2 weeks machine checkout (punctual access possible).
    • Machine commissioning with beam expected to start on 13 April (Easter Week).

CONFERENCES

CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
  • CALOR 2022, Brighton, UK - hybrid, 16-20 May, abstract deadline 8 April
     
  • LHCP2022, Taipei, Taiwan (central submission), 15-21 May, poster abstract deadline 28 March
     
  • PM2021, La Biodola, Elba, Italy, 22-28 May, abstract deadline 20 February
     
  • SQM 2022, Busan, Korea (central submission) - hybrid, 13-17 June, abstract deadline 15 March
     
  • HYP 2022, Prague, Czech Republic, 27 June - 1 July, abstract deadline 28 February
     
  • INPC2022, Cape Town, South Africa, 11-16 September, abstract deadline 15 March
     
SCHOOLS

OUTREACH NEWS

  • CERN Group Guided Tours: All pre-booked group guided tours have been cancelled until end of March 2022. The situation will be assessed end of February for tours taking place as from April. Virtual talks and tours are still possible for the groups requesting it.
     
  • ALICE visits: private visits are allowed in the exhibition (only visits of professional nature) and underground visits must be explicitly approved by the Spokesperson and by the Department Head of the requester.
     
  • Visits:
    • 17 Feb: professional media visit for Finland’s largest national media Yle (Finnish Broadcasting Company)
    • 17 Feb: Swiss medical scientists and neurosurgeons.
       
  • German version of ALICE cartoon is now on cds in the link here.
     
  • Interview of Irais Bautista Guzman about the origin of the Universe through Quark Gluon Plasma: published in Milenio.

 

DIVERSITY

 

 

ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here.
Your feedback is extremely important, feel free to contact us at
alice-diversity-office@cern.ch

 

Have a great weekend and a great week ahead!

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

   
Title
 
Institute
  
Application deadline
  Experimental Physicist CERN 31 Mar 2022
  Controls Software Engineer - Particle Accelerators CERN 9 Mar 2022
  Post-Doctoral Research Associate for EIC and particle accelerators Old Dominion University  
  Postdoctoral Research Asscociate in Experimental Particle Physics/GlueX Carnegie Mellon University  
  Postdoc position in ALICE The Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics (SMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW). Contact: Elisa Meninno 28 Feb 2022
  Electronics Engineer University of Glasgow 6 Mar 2022
  Research associate University of Glasgow 6 Mar 2022
  Fellowship (Graduate) Programme at CERN CERN 1 Mar 2022
  Technical/Doctoral/Administrative student programme at CERN CERN 21 Mar 2022
  Theoretical Physicist CERN to be filled as soon as possible.
  Controls Software Engineer - Particle Accelerators CERN 9 Mar 2022
  Physicist or Software Engineer (Post-Doctoral) (all genders) for software development for Experiment Control Systems GSI, Darmstadt. Contact:
Rudi Schmidt		  
  Postdoc position – UC Berkeley UC Berkeley heavy ion group to work on ALICE and EIC. Contact: Spencer Klein and Barbara Jacak  
  Staff position opening at Berkeley Lab - Nuclear Data Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1 Apr 2022
  Postdoctoral Research Associate position in STAR Warsaw University of Technology. Contact: Hanna Zbroszczyk 28 Feb 2022
  Postdoctoral Position in High-Energy Experiment 2022 Carnegie Mellon University 28 Feb 2022
  2-year post-doc position The ALICE team in Padua is soon opening a 2-year post-doc position co-funded by the STRONG2020 (GRANT AGREEMENT N.824093 WP18_NA7 CUP I54I19000610005 ) and ARCADIA (INFN Group 5 call) projects. Contact: Andrea Rossi 31 July 2022
  Research Associate in LHCb Imperial College London 14 Mar 2022
  Postdoctoral researcher at the LHCb experiment Heidelberg University 4 Mar 2022
  Postdoc position in Particle Physics in CMS experiment DESY 1 Mar 2022
  QUP Postdoctoral Fellow The International Center for Quantum-field Measurement Systems for Studies of the Universe and Particles (QUP) at KEK, Japan 28 Feb 2022
  Electronics engineer Forimtech SA Laboratory in Zimeysa (Satigny, GE, Switzerland)  
  Three open positions (postdoc, DAQ physicist/engineer and technician) and a faculty position University of Birmingham
Based around silicon detector development for the EIC.
Contact: Laura Gonella, Peter Jones and Paul Newman		 24 Feb
 
  Junior Group Leader The Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics (SMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 1 Apr 2022
  Specialist for Simulation and Modelling of Radiation Detector CERN 22 Feb 2022
  Marie-Curie Cofund PhD positions
Padua University. Contact:
Andrea Rossi, Francesca Soramel or Andrea Dainese
 8 Mar 2022
  Junior staff position The CEA-Saclay Quark-Gluon Plasma Laboratory (LQGP) is opening a junior staff position for an outstanding physicist in the field of experimental quark-gluon plasma physics. 25 Feb 2022
  Postdoctoral Researcher- Experimental High Energy Physics The Physics department at Syracuse University 28 Feb 2022
  Postdoctoral position in High Energy Heavy-ion Physics Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 28 Feb 2022

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