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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- ALICE Physics Forum: 14 - 20 December 2022: The Physics Forum will continue on Friday morning (9:00), Monday (14:00) and Tuesday (13:30), with paper proposals from the LF, CF and JE groups.
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
ALICE estimates transparency of the Milky Way to antimatter
Nature Physics 12 Dec 2022
CERN Media Update
An artistic blending of the absorption of an ordinary antinucleus produced at the LHC in the ALICE detector material (left side, orange trajectory) and an antinucleus from dark matter produced at the centre of the Galaxy and absorbed in the interstellar space (right side, blue trajectory). Figure credits: ORIGINS Cluster, Technical University Munich.
Physics Goals of LHC Run 3 for ALICE:

in this new YouTube Video: Luciano, Andrea, Werner, Federico and Sarah explain where we are in terms of our preparedness ....
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar, Friday 16 Dec 2022, 11:00: "The LHCb RICH Upgrade: from design to early performance" by Silvia Gambetta (The University of Edinburgh (GB))
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 20 Dec 2022, 11:00: "Measurements of 𝑅(𝐾) and 𝑅(𝐾∗) with the full LHCb Run 1 and 2 data" by Renato Quagliani (EPFL)
- CERN Colloquium, Thursday 12 Jan 2023, 16:30: "Twenty first century Nature" by Dr Magdalena Skipper (Editor-in-chief at Nature).
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- "First measurement of prompt and non-prompt D∗+ vector meson spin alignment in pp collisions at s√=13 TeV": more details in the link here.
- "Measurement of (anti)nuclei production in p-Pb collisions at √𝑠NN=8.16 TeV": more details in the link here.
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
- "First measurement of prompt and non-prompt D∗+ vector meson spin alignment in pp collisions at s√=13 TeV": more details in the link here.
- "Measurement of (anti)nuclei production in p-Pb collisions at √𝑠NN=8.16 TeV": more details in the link here.
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:
- YETS activities, magnets off
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- QEIC 2022, Delhi, India, 18-20 December
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- HEP2023, Valparaiso, Chile, 9-13 January, abstract deadline 23 December
- WWND 2023, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 5-12 February, abstract deadline 16 December
- Moriond 2023, La Thuile, Italy, 25 March - 1 April, abstract deadline 13 January
SCHOOLS
None
JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Hannah, Luca):
We want to wish everyone a happy holidays and to thank juniors for all of their work in the past year!
We're already looking forward to what 2023 will bring!
OUTREACH NEWS
- Visit to ALICE: Regular open visits to ALICE underground will resume from the middle of January.
- Saturday 10.12.2022. Cheadle Hulme School, UK; colleagues
- Monday 12.12.2022 Malliaras High School, Greece; Swiss senior citizens
- Tuesday 13.12.2022. Liceo Scientifico Marconi,Italy; Dell/Zurich Financial; Czech Technical University; ALICE colleagues
- Wednesday 14.12.2022 Istituto Dell’Aquila-Staffa, Italy; colleagues
- Thursday 15.12.2022. General Lyceum, Greece; colleagues
- Friday 16.12.2022. ALICE members’ friends; FCC colleagues
DIVERSITY
- International Day of Persons with Disabilities: Please take a look at this informative article from the CERN Diversity & Inclusion news on Neurodiversity.
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!