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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
All photos are in the CDS link
- A very successful ALICE week is coming to an end today!
- Physics Forum - QM and EPS 2023 Previews (3 to 21July 2023)
- Upgrade week: 4-7 December 2023 in Torino (Note the change of dates)
- Next ALICE week: 16-20 October 2023 at CERN
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- ALICE Thesis Award 2023: After reviewing all the 21 theses submitted for the award, the ALICE Thesis Award committee unanimously decided to honour two winners:
- Rita Sadek of Laboratoire Subatech, France for her thesis on “MFT commissioning and preparation for Run 3 data analysis with ALICE (LHC, CERN)”. Rita is now a PostDoc with the LHCb collaboration at LLR Palaiseau.
- Lucas Anne Vermunt of Utrecht University, The Netherlands for his thesis on “Hadronisation of heavy quarks - Production measurements of heavy-flavour hadrons from small to large collision systems”. Lucas is now a PostDoc with ALICE at GSI Darmstadt).
- Rita Sadek of Laboratoire Subatech, France for her thesis on “MFT commissioning and preparation for Run 3 data analysis with ALICE (LHC, CERN)”. Rita is now a PostDoc with the LHCb collaboration at LLR Palaiseau.
- CERN News: "ALICE shines light into the nucleus to probe its structure" 14 July 2023 by ALICE collaboration
- Endorsements by the Collaboration Board (meeting on 14 July 2023):
- Deputy Computing Resource Coordinator:
- Irakli Chakaberia (LBNL) - from 1 Aug 2023
- Irakli Chakaberia (LBNL) - from 1 Aug 2023
- Editorial Board Chair:
- Zaida Conesa del Valle (IJCLab Orsay) - from 1 Sep 2023 to 31 Aug 2026
Thanks to Javier Castillo Castellanos for his work as EB chair!
- Zaida Conesa del Valle (IJCLab Orsay) - from 1 Sep 2023 to 31 Aug 2026
- Conference Committee:
- Stefano Trogolo (Torino) - first term - from 1 Aug 2023 to 31 Jul 2025
Thanks to Alessandro Grelli for his work in the Conference Committee
- Stefano Trogolo (Torino) - first term - from 1 Aug 2023 to 31 Jul 2025
- PWG conveners:
- PWG-UD: Joakim Nystrand - first term - from 1 Oct 2023 to 1 Oct 2025
- PWG-DQ: Cristiane Jahnke - first term - from 1 Sep 2023 to 1 Sep 2025
- PWG-EM: Daiki Sekihata (after QM) - first term - from 1 Oct 2023 to 1 Oct 2025
- PWG-EM: Ivan Vorobyev (March 2024) - first term - from 1 Mar 2023 to 1 Mar 2025
- PWG-HF: Fabrizio Grosa (after QM) - first term - from 1 Nov 2023 to 1 Nov 2025
- PWG-HF: Andrea Dubla (ad interim until QM) - from 17 Jul 2023 to 1 Nov 2023
Thanks to Paul Bühler, Raphaelle Bailhache, Mike Sas, Fiorella Fionda and Gian Michele Innocenti for their contributions!
- New ALICE Associate Institute:
- Trento University + INFN: Group leader: Lucio Pancheri
- Trento University + INFN: Group leader: Lucio Pancheri
- Resource coordination:
- Matteo Castoldi started as resource coordinator from 1 June 2023.
- Deputy Computing Resource Coordinator:
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- 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))
- TH BSM Forum, Friday 14 Jul 2023, 13:30: "The Cosmology and Astrophysics of Dark Complexity" by David Curtin (University of Toronto)
- Theory Colloquia, Monday 17 Jul 2023, 14:00: "Quantum Superpositions of Massive Bodies and Gravitationally Mediated Entanglement" by Robert Wald (Chicago U)
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 18 Jul 2023, 11:00: "Observation of enhanced long-range elliptic anisotropies inside high-multiplicity jets in pp collisions at the LHC" by Austin Alan Baty (Rice University (US))
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 18 Jul 2023, 14:00: "Entanglement of Internal Degrees of Freedom, Finiteness and Holography" by Prof. Sumit Das (Kentucky)
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 18 Jul 2023, 16:00: "The PUMA Experiment - Motivation, Objectives and current status of the apperatus" by Clara Klink (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt (DE))
- "Data analysis challenges for stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds" 19–21 Jul 2023, CERN
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 19 Jul 2023, 14:00: "Science prospects for LISA" by Antoine Petiteau (CEA Saclay).
- "The CERN Webfest 2023": 21–23 Jul 2023, CERN.
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
| Title | Details | Submission date |
Link |
27 Jul 2023 |
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).
Paper in Collaboration Round - 1:
| Title | Deadline for comments |
| 18 Jul 2023 |
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| 27 Jul 2023 |
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| 21 July 2023 |
Paper in Collaboration Round - 2:
| Title | Deadline for comments |
| 14 Jul 2023 |
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| 16 Jul 2023 |
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:
- Missing shifter for pp data taking (recently released)
ECS block starting the 23th August
- Missing expert shifter for HI data taking
1 SL partial block of 3 mornings
2 DCS shifters : 1 full block and 1 partial block of 3 mornings
9 ECS shifters : 8 full blocks and 1 partial block of 3 mornings
5 QC shifters : 4 full blocks and 1 partial block of 2 mornings
- Missing shifter for pp data taking (recently released)
- ALICE central operations:
- Data taking at 500 kHz, 13.6 pb-1 delivered so far to ALICE in 2023
- Software Upgrade next week
- ALICE Run Manager (10 - 23 July 2023): Ernesto Calvo Villar
Ernesto is a Ph.D. student from Lima working on the measurement of diffractive cross sections using the AD system at the ALICE experiment. He performed service tasks on the design and production of the AD detector by studying the performances of the detector using Monte Carlo simulations. In Run 2, he was involved in the operation at Point 2 by taking ECS and AD shifts. Ernesto is our second Run Manager coming from the RM package. Without previous experience in RUN 3 shifts, he fulfilled all the training this year and had taken all the central shift positions (QC, DCS, and ECS Shift Leader) over the past four months. Thanks to his strong commitment to operation this year, he is fully qualified to take over the Run Manager role. - During his mandate, Ernesto will ensure production for physics at 500 kHz with the full machine (2400b), as well as finalisation of the IR scan at 1MHz and 1.5 MHz.
- LHC Status: Fill of 20h during the week. Time in Stable Beam ~ 35% since the beginning of the year.
Major electrical perturbation today morning. We hope to have physics back tomorrow.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 7th International Conference on Chirality, Vorticity and Magnetic Field in Heavy Ion Collisions, Beijing, China, 15-19 July
- Lepton Photon 2023, Melbourne, Australia, 17-21 July
- HASCO school, Goettingen, Germany, 17-25 July
- EURIZON school on particle detector technologies, Wuppertal, Germany, 17-28 July
- JETSCAPE 2023 ONLINE School, 17-28 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.
- 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.
- Conference on High Energy Physics, Yerevan, Armenia, 11 Sept- 2023, abstract deadline 13 August, invitation for 2 review talks (contact PWG and CC chairs)
SCHOOLS
- Jyvaskyla Summer School, Finland, 7 Aug.
JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Hannah, Luca):
- Guidelines for Thesis Video: we like to propose a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis. Guidelines and examples are in the Juniors link.
- Junior's day, Thursday 13 July 2023 during the ALICE week: The agenda included Q&A with the management, Presentation by the Conference Committee, Postdoc-panel withMike Sas, Shreyasi Acharya, and Tommaso Isidori, Physics talks by Juniors, and Juniors’ discussion.
- Newly elected Junior Representative is Florian Jonas who takes over from Hannah on 1 Aug 2023.
- Guidelines for Thesis Video: we like to propose a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis. Guidelines and examples are in the Juniors link.
OUTREACH NEWS
- Visits:
Saturday 8 July 2023: ALICE member’s friends, Switzerland
Sunday 9 July 2023: ALICE member’s friends, Poland
Monday 10 July 2023: Aristoteleio College, Thessaloniki, Greece
Tuesday 11 July 2023: ALICE member’s colleagues, Norway
Wednesday 12 July 2023: ALICE member’s friends, France
Thursday 13 July 2023: ALICE member’s friends, Spain -
Videos of ALICE FIT (Fast Interaction Trigger) in English, Polish, Russian and Spanish have been upload on the CERN Document Server and on YouTube (ALICE channel):
- https://videos.cern.ch/record/2298206
- https://videos.cern.ch/record/2298207
- https://videos.cern.ch/record/2298210
- https://videos.cern.ch/record/2298211
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjsBIbKsuO0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31s8jix2omo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31s8jix2omo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR_lG7K3pfs
- 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. You can send us an email that will be treated confidentially by using the email address: alice-diversity-office@cern.ch or send us an anonymous message by using this form
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Please refer to Job Announcements link for details.
Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!