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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
ALICE in CERN Social Media (Instagram, twitter, and facebook):
Curious about the ALICE upgrades made duering LS2: View this CERN post on Instagram, twitter, and facebook!
- Ongoing: ALICE Software and Computing Days (3 May to 5 May 2023)
- ALICE Upgrade Week at CERN: 8 to 12 May 2023: the 3rd Upgrade Week starts on Monday at 14:00 in the Main Auditorium. We now have a complete agenda in the indico page. Registrations for in-person participation at CERN will be possible till Friday (today) evening. We will have a Welcome Drink at the end of the plenary session on Monday afternoon.
- LHCP 2023 rehearsals, 12 to 19 May 2023
- ALICE Physics Week at Bucharest, Romania: 12 to 16 June 2023: Please Register in advance!!
- ALICE Week at CERN: 10 to 14 July 2023
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- The first ALICE papers with the Option-C author list and acknowledgments are now published online (others in pipeline):This is part of the process to get our publications back to normal mode.
- Request for participation: mental health check-in: We are happy to announce the launching of a mental health check-in to follow up on the Healthy Minds for Master Minds workshops held throughout the past two years. These questions were crafted in collaboration with Sarah Speziali (life coach and therapist) in order to gauge the wellbeing of scientists at the LHC and identify future areas of growth. This survey is open to all members of the collaboration!
Please take a moment to fill out this anonymous survey by Monday 8 May 12:00 CEST. We apologise for the short notice, but the plan is to summarize the results of this survey at the LHCP conference in May.
Thank you all for continuing your efforts to make mental health and wellbeing a priority in our community!
- The India-ALICE collaboration meeting at IIT Bombay took place during 29 April to 2 May 2023. It was attended by about 50 ALICE participants from India and abroad.
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- QCD Seminars, Friday 4 May 2023, 14:00: "NNLO event generation at NLO speeds -- accurate, precise, and ultrafast two-loop matrix elements" by Fady Bishara (DESY).
- Flavour@TH 2023, 8–12 May 2023 at CERN.
- Systemic Change and Nature of Reality, 8 May 2023 at CERN.
- EP Seminar, Tuesday 9 May 2023, 11:00, Main Auditorium (CERN): "STAR Beam Energy Scan" by Yue-Hang Leung (University of Heidelberg (DE))
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 9 May 2023, 14:00: "Bethe ansatz in 2d conformal field theory" by Tomáš Procházka (Institute of Physics, Prague).
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 10 May 2023, 14:00, TH Conference Room (CERN): "The Vcb puzzle -- Flavour TH Institute" by Paolo Gambino.
- QTI Lectures, Wednesday 10 May 2023, 14:00: "Quantum simulation, control and calibration using Qibo" by Matteo Robbiati (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT)).
- Workshops, Wednesday 10 May 2023, 18:00: "Arduino workshop (New Series): Making Analog Objects Digital" by Alberto Perro (Universite d'Aix-Marseille III (FR)).
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 11 May 2023, 13:30: "Anatomy of the Electroweak Phase Transition for Dark Sector induced Baryogenesis" by Ms Ying-Ying Li (PCFT, Hefei).
- Detector Seminar, Friday 12 May 2023, 11:00: "Space charge in liquid ionisation detectors" by Sandro Palestini (CERN).
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
- Heavy-ion shifts are now open: From 18 September to 30 October we will enter a critical data taking phase during which we will collect data for the proton-proton reference run and Heavy Ion. BOOKING is OPEN in SAMS for all slots up to 30th October, including the pp reference run and Heavy Ion. If you are interested in taking shifts during the exciting phase of the life of the collaboration and you have questions, do not hesitate to contact:
- DCS: Peter Chochula and André Augustinus
- ECS: Roberto Divia
- QC-PDP: Daniele De Gruttola and Ole Schmidt
- SL: Silvia Pisano
- RC: ALICE Run Coordination
- ALICE central operations:
- Ramp-up at 50 kHz and 100 kHz done.
- ALICE running efficicency 80-85%.
- New Run Manager: Livia Terlizzi.
Livia is junior member of the collaboration from the Torino group. She is an expert of Resistive Plate Chambers and of the MID system. She worked on the MID upgrade for RUN3 with new bakelite electrodes and worked on the performances of MID during the first year of data taking. She is one of the ALICE representative of the eco-gas collaboration of CERN. This year she is the MUON SRC, she is in charge of both MID and MCH systems. In 2022, she took a large number of central shifts, in addition to MID and ZDC On-calls. She also ensured more than two RM mandates and was regularly available to support the operation when last minute reinforcements were needed during critical phase (RM replacement, missing shifters). She is so committed to the operations at P2 that she accepted a RM mandate for critical operations, 4 days after defending her PhD on "An upgraded muon identification system for ALICE at the LHC: from detector construction to testing and re-commissioning".
During her mandate, Livia will coordinate the finalisation of the machine ramp-up reaching 500 kHz interaction for the first time of the year. We are running today at 100 kHz. As soon as this is reached, she will coordinate the ALICE intensity scan taking data from 10kHz to 4 MHz in preparation for Pb-Pb data taking.
- LHC Status:
- LHC availability over the past 14 days ~ 70%
- Machine ramp-up with 400b and 900b done
- Issues with losses in collisions with Beam 1, collimator setting reviewed and under validation to resume ramp-up to 1200b
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- CHEP2023, Jefferson Lab, US, 8-12 May (18 presentations from ALICE)
- 34th Rencontres de Blois, France 14 - 19 May
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- FAST 2023, Elba Island, Italy 28 May - 1 June, abstract deadline 14 May.
- PASCOS 2023, Irvine, US, 26 Jun. abstract deadline 31 May.
- Alhazen2023, Giza, Egypt 26 Jun, abstract deadline 16 Jun.
- QCD23, Montpellier, France 10 -14 Jul, abstract deadline 9 Jun.
- ICNFP 2023, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, 10 - 23 Jul, abstract deadline 30 May, Hybrid format. Possibility to submit abstract. Please contact PWG conveners.
- 7th International Conference on Chirality, Vorticity and Magnetic Field in Heavy Ion Collisions, Beijing, China, 15 - 19 Jul, abstract deadline 31 May.
- XQCD 2023, Coimbra, Portugal, 26-28 Jul, abstract deadline 16 May.
- BOOST2023, Berkeley, US, 31 Jul - 4 Aug, abstract deadline 15 May. Opportunities for PWGJE.
- 30th anniversary Rencontres du Vietnam, 6 -12 Aug, abstract deadline 1 Jun.
- IC-Msquare, Belgrade, Serbia, 28 Aug, abstract deadline 26 May.
- ICALEPC2023, cape Town, South Africa, 7 -13 October, abstract deadline 14 May.
- The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC/FSE), San Francisco, USA, 3-9 Dec, abstract deadline 18 May.
- EPS-HEP 2023, Hamburg, Germany, 21 - 25 Aug, central submission for talks. Poster submission deadline: 1st June. Please contact PWG conveners.
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.
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:
- Monday 1 May: University of Freiburg, Germany
- Tuesday 2 May: 2nd Lyceum of Kalamaria, Greece; ALICE members’ friends
- Wednesday 3 May: Artists (arts@cern);
- Wednesday 3 May: Experimental School, University of Thessaloniki, Greece;
- Wednesday 3 May: IES Fortuny, Spain
- Thursday 4 May: Collège Calvin, Switzerland
- Thursday 4 May: ALICE members’ friends
- Friday May: 2nd Lyceum of Kalyvia, Greece
- Joint EPS-SIF International School on Energy - Global challenges for energy sustainability, 17 - 22 July 2023, Varena, Italy: The registration deadline has been extended to 10 May 2023.
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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!