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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
A new record in ALICE operations: only 56s time from the declaration of the LHC STABLE BEAM to the START of the first RUN. Congratulations to the shift crew for this achievent: Anna Onnerstad (Jyvaskyla), Laura Huhta (Jyvaskyla), Johanna Lomker (Utrecht), Corentin Cot (Orsay).
- ALICE Physics Week at Bucharest, Romania: 12 to 16 June 2023
- Initial Stage 2023 rehearsals, 8 to 15 Jun 2023
- ALICE Week at CERN: 10 to 14 July 2023.
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Recent PhDs in ALICE: Congratulations to our new Doctors:
- Dr. Dukhishyam Mallick
Thesis title: "Studying multiplicity and rapidity dependence of K* production and probing initial conditions of high energy collisions with ALICE at the LHC energies"
Submitted to: Homi Bhabha National Institute and National Institute of Science Education and Research, India
Thesis defense: 9 Mar 2023
Thesis link: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2852874
Supervisor: Prof. Bedangadas Mohanty
Service Task: Maintenance of RSN package
- Dr. Anjali Sharma
Thesis title: Investigation of Elliptic Flow and Chiral Magnetic Effect in Pb-Pb collisions in ALICE at LHC
Date of defense: 28 Feb 2023 at Panjab University Chandigarh, India
Supervisors: Dr. M. M. Aggarwal and Dr. A. K. Bhati
Thesis link: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2860091
Service work: ESD QA
- Dr. Sandeep Dudi
Thesis title: phi(1020) meson production in p-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC
Date of defense: 19 Apr 2023 at Panjab University Chandigarh, India
Supervisor: Dr. Lokesh Kumar
Thesis link: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2860011
Service work: MC QA study of resonances
- Dr. Dukhishyam Mallick
- Call of nominations for Quark Matter plenary speaker of ALICE Highlight talk: Send your nominations including self nomination to CC chairs before Friday 9 June.
- Request for participation: mental health check-in for LHC scientists: please give your feedback by filling the anonymous survey. The survey is open for all collaboration members!
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Music on the Lawn: Saturday, 10 June on the terrace of Restaurant 1 from 2PM
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 13 Jun 2023, 11:00: "Measurements of sin(2β) and φs with the full LHCb data sample" by Peilian Li (CERN), Vukan Jevtic (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE)).
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 14 Jun 2023, 14:00: "Quantum sensing for New Physics and Gravitational Waves" by Elina Fuchs (CERN).
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 15 Jun 2023, 11:00: "Search for periodic new physics signals" by Matthew Philip Mccullough (CERN), Noam Tal Hod (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL)).
- Detector Seminar, Friday 16 Jun 2023, 11:00: "LHCb upgrade I" by Michel De Cian (Heidelberg University (DE)), Silvia Gambetta (The University of Edinburgh (GB)), Xiaoxue Han (Heidelberg University (DE)).
- CERN Colloquium, Monday 19 Jun 2023, 16:30: "Long-Lived Particles and the Future of Particle Physics" by Jonathan Lee Feng (University of California Irvine (US)).
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
- BOOKING is OPEN in SAMS for all slots up to 30 October, including the pp reference run and Heavy Ion period: 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. 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:
- 156 Billion events collected at 500 kHz, interaction rate scan done up to 1 MHz.
- Machine development to start next week: tests for consolidation of central system and improve performances
- LHC Status: Vaccum incident recovered, LHC back with full filling scheme with good performances.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
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- COMEX7, Catania, Italy, 11 -16 June
- PPC2023, Dajaeon, Korea, 12 - 16 June
- ANIMMA 2023, Lucca, Italy, 12 - 16 June
- ISOTDAQ school of trigger and DAQ, Instanbul, Turkey, 13 - 22 June
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Alhazen2023, Giza, Egypt 27–29 Sep, abstract deadline 17 Jun.
- QCD23, Montpellier, France 10-14 Jul, abstract deadline 16 Jun. Opportunities for ALICE: contact PWG conveners.
- ICNFP 2023, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, 10-23 Jul, abstract deadline 11 Jun.
- 30th anniversary Rencontres du Vietnam, 6 -12 Aug, abstract deadline 1 Jun. Opportunities for ALICE: contact PWG conveners.
- 52nd International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD 2023), Gyöngyös, Hungary, 21-26 Aug, abstract deadline 30 Jun.
- IC-Msquare, Belgrade, Serbia, 28-31 Aug, abstract deadline 30 Jun.
- Low-x 2023, Leros island, Greece, 3-8 Sep, no deadline
- ACHEP: The first edition of the African Conference on High Energy Physics (2023), Morocco, 23 to 27 October, abstract deadline 30 Jun. Opportunities for long and short talks.
- PSD23: 13th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors, Owford, England 3 September, abstract dealine 23 June
- Quark Matter 2023, Houston, USA, 3-9 Sep 2023
Early registration and young scientist support request deadline: 25 June at 11:59 p.m. CSTQM 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, 26-30 Jun, registration deadline 16 Jun.
- Jyvaskyla Summer School, Finland, 7 Aug.
- Baltic School of High-Energy Physics and Accelerator Technologies (BSHEPAT) Palanga, Lithuania, 7-11 Aug, registration deadline 20 Jun.
- JETSCAPE 2023 ONLINE School, 17 Jul, registration deadline 10 Jul
JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Hannah, Luca)
- Congratulations to Petra Loncar (ALICE Junior Ambassador of Croatia) for making an impressive presentation on the topic, "Experiences from mental health workshops for LHC scientists" at the LHCP 2023 conference Outreach, Diversity and Education session.
- Congratulations to Petra Loncar (ALICE Junior Ambassador of Croatia) for making an impressive presentation on the topic, "Experiences from mental health workshops for LHC scientists" at the LHCP 2023 conference Outreach, Diversity and Education session.
OUTREACH NEWS
- Monday 5 Jun 2023: XIV Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Stanislawa Staszica, Poland
- Monday 5 Jun 2023: Liceo Gandini, Lodi, Italy
- Tuesday 6 June 2023: Lycée Niece-Balleure, France
- Wednesday 7 June 2023: The Observatory Project, New Zealand (arts@cern)
- Thursday 8 June 2023: International school of Paris, France
- Thursday 8 June 2023: German friends
- Thursday 8 June 2023: NASA ISS, USA (guests of Prof. Ting)
- Friday 9 June 2023: Her Excellency Ms Luciana Barbosa de Oliveira Santos Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil
Group visits to Science Gateway: Bookings are now open for group visits to CERN Science Gateway. More information and a link to the booking form are now available.
Inauguration of Science Gateway on 7 October: Find out more about becoming a CERN Guide in the Science Gateway era.
DIVERSITY
- Inclusive Teamwork Workshops: 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):
- Digital Accessibility Workshop (26 Jun 2023): organised by the Diversity and Inclusion Officers of IT. Join the workshop to discuss web accessibility on Monday 26 of June in the IT Amphitheatre.
- "Kind words", new Users Office diversity-friendly initiative. Words are impactful !
To be as inclusive as possible with our content, we follow the CERN English language style guide as well as general guidelines for gender-inclusive language.
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!