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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- ALICE Week (7-11 November 2022): an eventful week has come to an end today. The Plenary sessions were attended by close to 220 participants in the Main Auditorium and about150 online. Below are some glimpses from the events:
- ALICE new public website goes online: alice.cern
- A ten-year journey through the quark–gluon plasma and beyond: ArXiv link
The ALICE experiment takes stock of its first decade of quantum chromodynamics studies at the Large Hadron Collider.
- ALICE collaboration submits updates to the letter of intent for ALICE 3: Letter of intent for ALICE 3: A next-generation heavy-ion experiment at the LHC.
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Endorsements by the Collaboration Board (meeting on 11 Nov 2022):
- CB Representative on the Service Work Board: Edmundo Garcia-Solis (Chicago State University, USA) from 1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2025
- Secretary to the CB chair: Philippe Crochet (Clermont-Ferrand) from 12 Nov 2022 to 30 Nov 2025
- Resource Board Chairperson: Extension of mandate of Adriana Telesca (CERN) from 1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2025
- PWG Co-conveners:
- PWG-CF: Katarina Gajdosova (CERN), taking over from Laura Fabbietti (TU Munich) from 15 Nov 2022 until 14 Nov 2024
- PWG-HF: Fabio Colamaria (Bari INFN), taking over from Cristina Terrevoli (Houston) from 1 Feb 2023 until 31 Jan 2025
- PWG-LF: Nicolò Jacazio (Bologna), taking over from Ramona Lea (Brescia) from 1 Feb 2023 until 31 Mar 2025
- Members of the Editorial Board:
- Stefania Bufalino (Torino) - 1st term - 1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2025
- Panagiotis Christakoglou (Nikhef Amsterdam) - 1st term - 14 Nov 2022 to 13 Nov 2025
- Joakim Nystrand (Bergen) - 1st term - 14 Nov 2022 to 13 Nov 2025
- Ionut Arsene (Oslo) - 2nd term extension - 16 Nov 2022 to 15 Nov 2024
- Members of the Conference Committee:
- Ante Bilandzic (TU Munich) - 2nd term extension - 16 Nov 2022 to 30 Nov 2024
- Enrico Scomparin (Torino INFN) - 2nd term extension - 1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2024
- Alessandro Grelli (Utrecht) - 2nd term extension - 1 Dec 2022 to 31 July 2023
- Livio Bianchi (Torino) - 1st term - 1 Dec 2022 to 30 Nov 2024
- Valentina Zaccolo (Trieste) - 1st term - 1 Dec 2022 to 30 Nov 2024
- Iwona Sputowska (Krakow) - 1st term - 1 Dec 2022 to 30 Nov 2024
- Conference Committee chairs: Cristina Terrevoli (Houston) (from 1 Feb 2023), Marie Germain (Subatech Nantes) from 1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2025
- Service Work Coordinator: Massimo Masera (Torino) from 1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2025
- Run Coordinator: Sarah Porteboeuf (Clermont Ferrand) from 1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2023
- Deputy Run Coordinator: Andrea Ferrero (CEA Saclay) from 1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2023
- Deputy Physics Coordinators: Igor Altsybeev (TU Munich), Roberta Arnaldi (Torino INFN) from 1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2025
- Upgrade Coordinator: Andrea Dainese (Padua INFN) from 1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec2025
- Trigger Coordinators: Maximiliano Puccio (CERN), Roman Lietava (Birmingham) from 1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2025
- Extension of mandate of Upgrade Coordinator to 1 Mar 2023: Jochen Klein (CERN)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- QCD Seminars, Friday 11 Nov 2022, 11:00: "Jets for LHC Run 3" by Prof. Simone Marzani (Università di Genova and INFN Sezione di Genova)
- TH Journal Club on Strings & QFT, Monday 14 Nov 2022, 13:30: "Algebras of Operators on Intersecting M2- and M5-branes" by Miroslav Rapcak (CERN)
- Library Science Talk, Monday 14 November 2022: "The WHO COVID-19 Research Database: behind the scenes of a super powerful tool!" Jose Garnica Carreno (WHO)
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 15 Nov 2022, 11:00: "Higgs total width at the ATLAS experiment" by Rafael Coelho Lopes De Sa (University of Massachusetts (US))
- TH Informal Lattice Meeting, Tuesday 15 Nov 2022, 16:00: "Massive QED on the lattice" by Michele Della Morte (University of Southern Denmark (DK))
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 16 Nov 2022, 10:00: "TBA" by Matthew Schwartz
- A&T Seminar, Thursday 17 Nov 2022, 11:00: "Using synchrotron radiation to understand and manipulate particle beams" by Sergei Nagaitsev (FNAL)
- CERN’s impact on medical technology, Thursday 17 Nov 2022, 14:00.
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 17 Nov 2022, 14:30: "Axion wind detection with the homogeneous precession domain of superfluid helium-3" by Yonatan Kahn
- CERN Colloquium, Thursday 17 Nov 2022, 16:30: "The Practice and Sociology of Natural Science" by Prof. James Peebles (Princeton University)
- Knowledge Transfer and Detector Seminar, Friday 18 Nov 2022, 11:00: "10 Years of Timepix in Space – How CERN Detectors are supporting Human Spaceflight" by Dr Stuart P. George (NASA)
- "CAS Advanced Accelerator Physics" 6–18 Nov 2022, Sevrier, France
- QCD Seminar, Friday 18 Nov 2022, 14:00
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here
- "The ALICE experiment - A journey through QCD": more details in the link here.
- "Jet-like correlations with respect to K0S and Λ(Λ¯) in pp and Pb−Pb collisions at 𝑠√NN= 5.02 TeV": more details in the link here.
- "Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect with charge-dependent azimuthal correlations in Xe-Xe collisions at √sNN=5.44 TeV": more details in the link here.
New ALICE paper submissions appear in twitter: ALICE_Publications
PAPERS IN THE COLLABORATION REVIEW
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here
NEWS FROM POINT 2
- Run coordination:
- RC::P2
- Performed full TPC scans 5 Khz to 4 MHz for GEM field optimization and alternating stacks off
- Performed TPC scan with reversed magnetic polarity 5 Khz to 4 MHz
- Preparing vdM scan and ZDC for final commissioning in view of Pb test
- RC::P2
- The ZDC, which upgraded its readout system for LHC Run 3 in order to to read in continuous readout mode, has been included in global Physics run during the VdM scans data taking this eek. The ZNA and ZPA ADC spectra obtained with the new readout system are shown in the plots below:
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CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Spaatind 2023, Fefor, Norway, 3-8 January, abstract deadline 30 November
- HEP2023, Valparaiso, Chile, 9-13 January, abstract deadline 14 December
- WWND 2023, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 5-12 February, abstract deadline 16 December
- Lake Louise Winter Institute 2023, Canada, 19-24 February, abstract deadline 9 December
- DIS2023, East Lansing, MI, US, 27-31 March, abstract deadline 1 December
- Hard Probes 2023, Aschaffenburg, Germany (central submission), 26-31 March, abstract deadline 5 December
- CHEP, Jefferson Lab, US, 8-12 May, abstract deadline 17 November
SCHOOLS
- CERN Latin-American School of HEP, San Esteban, Chile, 15-28 March, registration deadline 18 November
JUNIOR'S CORNER
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- Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Hannah, Luca):
- We would like to thank juniors who participated in the Junior's day on Thursday and to the Junior's Committee for organizing the event!
- We would like to welcome Florian Jonas to the Junior's Committee! We are still looking for one additional Junior's Committee member. If you would like to join Florian and Ida, please reach out to us at alice-junior-reps@cern.ch.
- We also had a wonderful Junior's fondue dinner at Bains des Pâquis afterwards (see attached photos)! We'd also like to thank the ALICE management for their support of this event!
- LHC Early Career Mentoring Programme: Are you an early career scientist who is interested in a career in research? Are you wondering how to take the next steps in your career? Then this programme is for you and we invite you to submit a mentee application. Would you like to help an early career scientist develop their professional skills? Do you have tips/tricks that you wish you had known earlier in your career? Then this program is also for you and we invite you to submit a mentor application.
The last day of applications for mentees 2022/2023 round of the programme is Friday 18 November. However, from this round of the programme onwards, the organisers will keep applications open all year round for mentees who have been affected by the war in Ukraine and for mentors who wish to mentor them.
- We would like to thank juniors who participated in the Junior's day on Thursday and to the Junior's Committee for organizing the event!
OUTREACH NEWS
- Visit to ALICE Exhibition
- Saturday 5 November Haberdashers Adams School, UK
- Tuesday 8 November 2nd High School of New Makri, Greece
- Wednesday 9 November Lycée privé Saint Paul, Saint-Etienne, France
- Thursday 10 November PHENO Workshop participants; Ecole Moser, France; Chatham and Clarendon Grammar School, UK
- Friday 11 November Students from Lund, Sweden; colleagues’ friends, France
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New on CDS:
- "BECOME A PARTICLE PHYSICIST IN EIGHT SIMPLE MOVES" by Simone Ragoni.
- Further details are in the link here
- Further details are in the link here
DIVERSITY
- An inventory of CERN building entrances accessible for disabled persons is now available on https://maps.web.cern.ch/ in the “accessibility section”.
Thanks to an on-site survey of more than 1800 entrances (all cern sites) 1150 of them have been identified as meeting the Swiss/ French criteria based on HSE document 1810359.
ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here. Your feedback is extremely important, feel free to contact us at
alice-diversity-office@cern.ch
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Please refer to Job Announcements link for details.
Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!