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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
Last Friday (21 April 2023), ALICE recorded the first collisions of the year at the record collision energy of 13.6 TeV – marking the beginning of chapter two of LHC Run3.
- LHC Job Matching Event, 3 May 2023
- ALICE Software and Computing Days (including FLP/PDP Plenary), 3 to 5 May 2023
- ALICE Upgrade Week at CERN: 8 to 12 May 2023: full agenda available in the indico page.
- ALICE Physics Week at Bucharest, Romania: 12 to 16 June 2023: Please Register in advance!!
- ALICE Week, CERN: 10 to 14 July 2023
- The India-ALICE collaboration meeting, IIT Bombay: 29 April to 2 May 2023
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- CERN Courier May-June 2023: Beauty quark production versus particle multiplicity:
- Change in ALICE calendar Oct-Nov ALICE Week and Upgrade Week: (modified ALICE Calender 2023)
- ALICE Week: 16-20 Oct at CERN
- Upgrade Week: 13-17 Nov
- ATHIC2023: The 9th Asian Triangle Heavy-Ion 2023 conference was held in Hiroshima, Japan, from 24-27 April 2023. It was attended by close to two-hundred physicists primarily from Japan, Korea, China, and India.
Participation of ALICE collaborators in ATHIC2023 was quite prominent.
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar, Friday 28 Apr 2023, 11:00: "Micro-channel plate photon detectors" by Thierry Gys (CERN).
- BE Seminars, Friday 28 Apr 2023, 16:00: "Studies of emittance growth due to noise in the Crab Cavity RF systems" by Natalia Triantafyllou (CERN).
- EP-ESE Electronics Seminars, Tuesday 2 May 2023, 09:00: "Single Event Effect mitigation techniques, testing and verification of the RD53 chips" by Jelena Lalic (CERN).
- Seminars, Tuesday 2 May 2023, 14:30: "Status of high-field magnet R&D for future colliders" by Andrzej Siemko (CERN), Bernhard Auchmann (PSI/CERN).
- CERN Lattice Coffee, Tuesday 2 May 2023, 16:00: "Lattice QCD simulations at non-zero baryochemical potential" by Attila Pasztor (Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)).
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 2 May 2023, 16:30: "Reflections on Parity Breaking" by Jacob McNamara (Caltech).
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 3 May 2023, 11:30: "Gravitational waves from first-order phase transitions (and how they are affected by defects)" by Henrique Rubira
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 4 May 2023, 11:00: "Measurement of the production of 4-top-quarks in ATLAS and CMS" by Didar Dobur (Ghent University (BE)), Quake Qin (University of Manchester (GB)).
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
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New ALICE paper submissions appear in twitter: ALICE_Publications
PAPERS IN THE COLLABORATION REVIEW
Papers currently open for comments can be inspected using the link: Paper in Collaboration Review (Open for Comments).
NEWS FROM POINT 2
- ALICE central operations:
- Restart of data taking at 13.6 TeV, 3.3 Billion collisions collected so far, at 10 kHz to 75 kHz
- 0.25 Billion collisions with 0B field for alignement at 5kHz and 10 kHz
- intensity steps 50 kHz, 100 kHz, 250 khz, 500 kHz planned this week
- LHC Status:
- First 2 steps 3b/12b and 75b done
- Machine ramp-up resumed 27 April with 400b, 900b and 1200b bunch filled expected over the week-end
- Very good machine performances
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 1st Workshop on Highly Baryonic Matter at RHIC-BES and Future Facilities - beyond the Critical Point towards Neutron Stars - (WHBM 2023), Tsukuba, Japan, 29-30 Apr
- POETIC 10, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2 May
- CHEP2023, Jefferson Lab, US, 8 May 2023, (18 presentations from ALICE)
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- COMEX7, Catania, Italy, 11-16 June 2023.
- PASCOS 2023, Irvine, US, 26 June, abstract deadline 31 May.
- Alhazen2023, Giza, Egypt, 26 June, abstract deadline 16 June,
- QCD23, Montpellier, France, 10-14 July 2023, abstract deadline 9 June.
- ICNFP 2023, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, 10-23 July, abstract deadline 30 May (all PWG).
- XQCD 2023, Coimbra, Portugal, 26-28 Jul, abstract deadline 16 May.
- BOOST2023, Berkeley, US, 31 July, abstract deadline 15 May, Opportunities for Jet PWG.
- IC-Msquare, Belgrade, Serbia, 28 August, abstract deadline 26 May
- TWEPP2023, Geremeas, Sardinia, Italy, 2-6 October 2023, abstract deadline: 30 April.
Abstract submission deadline: 8 May 2023
Central submission for talks
For posters: please contact PWG convenersQM previews at Physics Forum: 3-7 July and 17-21 July
QM approvals at Physics Forum: 31 July - 11 August
QM rehearsals: 28 August - 1 September
SCHOOLS
- Giornate di Studio sui Rivelatori international school on particle detectors, Cogne, Italy, 26 June, registration deadline 16 June.
- 2023 European School of High-Energy Physics, ESEHEP2023, Denmark, 6-19 Sep 2023, registration deadline 28 April.
JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Hannah, Luca):
- The call for candidates for the next Junior Representative taking over Hannah’s mandate on 1 Aug 2023 is open. If you consider to run, contact the Juniors Committee.
- There are still many empty shifts which need to be filled urgently! Please consider to take shifts in order to help getting our experiment back running.
- The call for candidates for the next Junior Representative taking over Hannah’s mandate on 1 Aug 2023 is open. If you consider to run, contact the Juniors Committee.
OUTREACH NEWS
- Visit to ALICE:
- Friday 21 Apr: Spontacs, Switzerland
- Monday 24 Apr: 1st Gymnasium Kallipolis, Greece;
- Monday 24 Apr: Baltic Teacher Programme;
- Monday 24 Apr: ALICE members’ friends
- Wednesday 26 Apr: 8th Junior School of Glyfada, Greece;
- Wednesday 26 Apr: 2nd High School of Agios Dimitrios Attikis, Greece;
- Wednesday 26 Apr: V LO Krakow, Poland
- Thursday 27 Apr: Liceo Sylos-Fiore, Italy;
- Thursday 27 Apr: Deputy Director General of South African Department of Science and Innovation
- Friday 28 Apr: 8th Gymnasium of Ioannina, Greece;
- Friday 28 Apr: Lycée Cuvier, France
DIVERSITY
- Inclusive Teamwork Workshops (Still places are available to participate): ALICE first-level coordinators, project leaders, team leaders, PWG conveners and PAG coordinators are encouraged to attend. Here are the dates of the upcoming sessions in 2023 (registration on Indico):
- 8th IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics (ICWIP2023): will be held from 10 to 14 July 2023 hosted by India.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) has recognised a particular need to foster the participation of women in physics. The IUPAP Conferences series on Women in Physics has a history not only of success and growth but also of making a difference to the physics community.
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!