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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- ALICE Week at CERN (10 to 14 July 2023): The focus of this ALICE week is on the preparation and readiness for the upcoming heavy-ion run and the preparation of the Quark Matter conference.
- Tuesday 11 July at 7PM: 2023 ALICE Summer party at Point 2
- Wednesday 12 July at 5PM (CERN Main Auditorum): ALICE thesis award ceremony
- Tuesday 11 July at 7PM: 2023 ALICE Summer party at Point 2
- Physics Forum - QM and EPS 2023 Previews (3 to 21July 2023)
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Recent PhDs in ALICE. Congratulations to our new Doctors:
- Dr. Livia Terlizzi
Thesis: An upgraded muon identification system for ALICE at the LHC: from detector construction to testing and re-commissioning
CDS link: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2858769?ln=en
Institution: Università di Torino (Italy)
Defense date: April 26th, 2023
Supervisor: Alessandro Ferretti
Service task: MID commissioning
- Dr. Luca Quaglia
Thesis: Development of eco-friendly gas mixtures for Resistive Plate Chambers
CDS link: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2861614?ln=en
Institution: Università di Torino (Italy)
Defense date: April 26th, 2023
Supervisor: Martino Gagliardi
Service task: ZDC software
- Dr. Randhir Singh
Thesis Title : "Open charm studies as function of event shape variable with ALICE detector at the LHC"
CDS: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2860301
Defense: 25-05-2023, University of Jammu
Supervisor : Prof. Sanjeev Singh Sambyal
Service task: D2H LEGO train running
- Dr. Dhruv Dixit
Thesis title: Isolated photon cross sections and nuclear modification factor in sqrt(s) = 5.02 TeV pp and p-Pb with ALICE
CDS: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2862068?ln=en
Defense: 11 May 2023 at University of California, Berkeley
Supervisor : Prof. Barbara Jacak
Service task: Development, test and make available energy calibration using single channels
- Dr. Livia Terlizzi
- CERN Courier (Jul - Aug 2023)
- Strong Interaction News: "Inclusive photon production at forward rapidities"
- Computing Feature: "Event displays in motion"
- Strong Interaction News: "Inclusive photon production at forward rapidities"
- News around the Collaboration (Please send us mails regarding happenings in our collaborating institutes):
- "ALICE - 30 years of history and future" organized by Czech Technical University in Prague.
- "ALICE - 30 years of history and future" organized by Czech Technical University in Prague.
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Events for the CERN-based community, Friday 7 Jul 2023, 14:00: "Privacy by Design: more than just a catchy phrase" by Mr R. Jason Cronk
- TH BSM Forum, Friday 7 Jul 2023, 16:00: "Discussion on Muon Colliders" by Cari Cesarotti
- BE Seminars, Friday 7 Jul 2023, 16:00: "Optimization of the High-Brightness Beam Performance of the CERN PSB with H- Injection" by Tirsi Prebibaj (CERN)
- "Neutrino Day in Prévessin-Moëns" Saturday 8 Jul 2023
- "Accelerating the Adoption of Open Science" 10-14 Jul 2023
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 11 Jul 2023, 11:00: "How to precisely measure the W boson properties - the most recent ATLAS results" by Ludovica Aperio Bella (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 12 Jul 2023, 11:30: "Testing Inflation with primordial features from the largest to the smallest scales in our Universe" by Matteo Braglia (New York University (US))
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 13 Jul 2023, 11:00: "ttW production at the LHC: theoretical and experimental challenges" by Giuseppe Bevilacqua (NCSR Demokritos), Tamara Vazquez Schroeder (CERN)
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 13 Jul 2023, 13:30: "Molecules For Dark Matter Detection" by Ben Lillard (University of Oregon)
- CERN Computing Seminar | openlab series, Friday 14 Jul 2023, 11:00: "Accelerating hyperparameter optimization using performance prediction on a heterogeneous HPC system" by Juan Pablo Garcia Amboage (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
| Title with arXiv link | Further details | Submission date |
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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
- SHIFT BOOKING is OPEN in SAMS for all slots up to 30 October (including 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 Shifts: HI Data taking Expert shifters needed to cover 119 shift slots
- SL, partial block 3 mornings starting October 28
- DCS, 4 full blocks and 1 partial block 3 mornings
- ECS, 10 full blocks and 1 partial block with 3 mornings
- QC, 4 full blocks and 1 partial block with 2 mornings
- ALICE central operations:
- Interaction rate scan with full machine (2400b), magnet polarity -/-, 10 kHz and 50 kHz done, 100 kHz ongoing
- Today and tomorrow: low-field data taking with both magnet polarities (+/+ first, then -/-)
- Resume interaction rate scan with -/- polarity after completion of the low-field data taking
- LHC Status: LHC is in production for physics, provided more than 1 fb-1 during the past two days.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- QCD23, Montpellier, France, 10 - 14 July
- 12th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2023), Kolymbari, Crete, Greece , 10 - 22 July
- TESHEP school 14th edition, Bezmiechowa Gorna, Poland ,14 - 22 July
- 7th International Conference on Chirality, Vorticity and Magnetic Field in Heavy Ion Collisions, Beijing, China, 15 - 19 July
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
QM 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 |
- IC-Msquare, Belgrade, Serbia, 28-31 Aug, abstract deadline: 28 Jul.
- 2023 Fall Meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society and Physical Society of Japan, Hawai,US, 7 October, abstract deadline 7 July
- The 32nd International Workshop on Vertex Detectors (VERTEX 2023)), Sestri Levante, Italy, 16 - 20 October, abstract deadline 25 July.
- ACHEP: The first edition of the African Conference on High Energy Physics (2023), Rabat, Morocco, 23-27 October, abstract deadline 20 July.
SCHOOLS
- Jyvaskyla Summer School, Finland, 7 Aug.
- JETSCAPE 2023 ONLINE School, 17-28 Jul, registration deadline 10 Jul.
JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Hannah, Luca):
- The election for the new Juniors Representative taking over Hannah’s mandate from 1st August is open! If you haven’t done so yet, please cast your vote here. You can find the candidates’ statements at this link.
- The Juniors’ Day during the following ALICE week will take place on Thursday, July 13 at 13:30 in the Main Auditorium at CERN and online. Please, register at the indico page.
OUTREACH NEWS
- Visit to ALICE:
- Saturday 1st July 2023 ALICE member’s friends
- Sunday 2 Jul 2023 ALICE member’s friends
- Wednesday 5 July 2023 ALICE member’s friends
- Friday 7 July 2023 Saint Joseph Greek-French School, Greece
- Virtual visit to ALICE: Thursday 7 July 2023 Gustav-Heinemann-Oberschule Berlin
- 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
- New article is available in this week’s CERN Bulletin on the 25by’25 progress link showing that the proportion of women hired over the last five years has increased by 7.5%.
- LGBTQ+ CERN has prepared cards that people can attach to their office doors to express support for diversity. The cards come with various designs, including two using the ALICE rainbow logo. There are printed cards available in ALICE Secretariat.
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!