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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
Quark Matter 2023 (3-9 September), Houston
QM2023 - ALICE Photograph: QM2023 photographs are in the CDS link.
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Congratulations to all the speakers and poster presentors: CC Chairs (Marie and Cristina) like to thank all for preparing excellent presentations in the conference!
QM2023 photographs are in the CDS link
Young Scientist Award: Congratulations to Afnan Shatat (Left), PhD student from IJCLab Orsay, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris Saclay for winning the Young Scientist Award 2023 for her presentation on "Coherent J/Psi photoproduction and polarization in peripheral Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE".
Best poster/flash talk: Congratulations to Anton Riedel (Right), PhD student from Technical University of Munich for the Flash Talk at Quark Matter 2023 on "Current status and future prospects of measuring hadronic interactions in pp collisions at 13.6 TeV with ALICE"
Best poster/flash talk: Congratulations to Anton Riedel (Right), PhD student from Technical University of Munich for the Flash Talk at Quark Matter 2023 on "Current status and future prospects of measuring hadronic interactions in pp collisions at 13.6 TeV with ALICE"
Looking forward to Quark Matter 2025: 6-12 April, Frankfurt
- ALICE Mini Week: 18-22 September 2023
- "FoCal General Meeting" Monday 18 Sept 2023, 14:00, 160/R-009 (CERN).
- ALICE week: 16-20 October 2023 at CERN
- 4th ALICE Upgrade week: 4-7 December 2023 in Torino
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- "How Tightly Bound Are Hypertritons?": ALICE paper recently published on PRL has been highlighted as an Editors’ Suggestion. The paper was also highlighted with a Synopsis in Physics Magazine. Congratulations for the great achievement!
- CERN Courier (Jul-Aug 2023) Energy Frontier segment on "Probing gluonic saturated matter": to advance our understanding of gluonic saturated matter at the LHC, the ALICE collaboration presents a new study using photon-induced interactions in ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs).
- CERN Courier (Jul-Aug 2023) article on "ALICE ups its game for sustainable computing" discusses the design and deployment of a completely new computing model – the O2 project – allows the ALICE collaboration to merge online and offline data processing into a single software framework to cope with the demands of Run 3 and beyond.
- "The joy of summer conferences" by Joachim Mnich (Director for CERN Research and Computing).
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar, Friday 15 Sept 2023, 11:00: "The ALICE upgrades in LS2" by Christian Lippmann (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE)), David Rohr (CERN), Prof. Stefania Maria Beole (Universita e INFN Torino (IT)).
- BE Seminars, Friday 15 Sept 2023, 16:00: "The design of the ENUBET beamline" by Elisabetta Giulia Parozzi (CERN).
- "Forward Physics Facility Theory Workshop": 18–19 Sept 2023, CERN.
- TH String Theory Seminar, Monday 18 Sept 2023, 14:00: "Stringy effects in SYK scrambling" by Mark Mezei (Oxford U.).
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 19 Sept 2023, 11:00: "New results from the expanding heavy-ion program at LHCb" by Óscar Boente García (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole polytechnique).
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 19 Sept 2023, 14:00: "Bootstrapping bulk locality" by Nat Levine
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 21 Sept 2023, 11:00: "ptZ, ptW measurement in ATLAS" by Fabrice Balli (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)), Dr Luca Rottoli (University of Zurich (CH))
- "KT Seminar on 29 September at 9:00": How AI and a CERN federated learning platform can assist clinicians in the management of stroke patients
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
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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
- LHC IP8 TDI vacuum leak:
- The initial leak of IP8 TDIs (Module B bottom Jaw) was sucesfully mitigated by opening the jaw in parking position and varnishing the leak.
- On Monday, a second leak developped on the IP8 TDIs (Module A bottom Jaw). The same strategy as for the first leak was applied yesterday during an access: the module A bottom jaw is blocked in parking position (opened) and the leak was sucessfully varnished.
- The IP8 TDIs is now in a configuration with 2 jaws (module A and B bottom) opened and blocked in parking position.
- Simulations are ongoing to estimate limitations for pp ref run and Heavy Ion run.
- LHC Heavy Ion commissioning:
- Heavy Ion Slip-stacked beam with 12b available from SPS. Ions injected in the LHC, ramp up to FLAT TOP.
- Heavy Ion Slip-stacked beam with 12b available from SPS. Ions injected in the LHC, ramp up to FLAT TOP.
- ALICE data taking:
- Data taking 900 GeV, devoted to re-commissioning after 6 weeks of pause, ~ 20-25 M INEL events collected
- VdM scan done LHC23zv 2X-Y scan, 2 LSC, X-Y with offset. (LSC redone suspecting orbit drift)
- Data taking with ALL detectors, including ZDC, during LHCb scan, LHC23zv, ~ 0.12 Billion event collected with mu= 0.005 and mu = 0.03.
- ALICE Run Manager (4 - 17 Sep 2023): Bharati Naik:
Bharati Naik is a postdoctoral fellw from Johannesburg. She is a specialist in D-meson and azimuthal correlations in pp collisions at 13 TeV, a subject she extensively studied in her Ph.D. thesis. Later she was in charge of the high-level QA for analysis of D-meson hadron correlations and HF jets in data and MC samples. Since Run 2 she has been committed to operations, ensuring several central shifts for different roles: DCS, ECS, and SL, and being a DCS expert shifter for Heavy Ions. On the detector side, she is also doing MID On-calls.
During her mandate, Bharati will coordinate critical data taking, starting with the VdM scan on Tuesday, 5 September. During the High beta run, she will coordinate the last software upgrade in preparation for Heavy Ion and full revalidation of all acquisition components. Starting the 11 September, Bharati will be in charge of the pp reference run at the center of mass energy of 5.36 TeV which marks the start of our Heavy Ion program.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
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SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 4th Heavy Flavour Meet 2023, Goa, India, 2-4 November. Invitation for HF overview taks; contact CC chairs/PWG HF conveners.
- 13th International Conference in High-Energy Physics (HEPMAD23), Antananarivo, Madagascar, 23 October, abstract deadline 29 Sep 2023. Contact your PWG conveners.
- WPCF: XVI edition of the Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy, Catania (Italy), 6-10 November, abstract deadline - 30 September. Contact PWG-CF Conveners.
- 14th Int Workshop on Multiple parton Interactions at LHC MPI@LHC 2023, Manchester, UK, 20-24 November, no abstract deadline.
- The 3rd International Symposium on Physics and Applications (ISPA 2023), online, 22-23 November, abstract deadline 1 October.
- XVI Polish Workshop on Relativistic Heavy Ion collisions, Kielce, Poland 2-3 December, abstract deadline 15 November
- 17th Internationnal Workshop of Tau lepton physics, Louisville, USA, 4-8 December, abstract deadline 30 September, Invitation for a talk "status and prospects of measurement of anomalous magnetic moment of the tau lepton in heavy ion collisions". Contact CC chairs.
- 23rd ZIMÁNYI Winter Workshopon HI physics, Budapest, Hungary, 4-8 December, abstract deadline 30 September, possibility for contributed talks.
SCHOOLS
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Florian, Luca):
- LHC Early Career Mentoring Program: The fourth round of the successful mentoring program will start soon! Application for mentors and mentees will open on 22 September. Detailed information about the program can be found here.
In case of questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to us: alice-junior-reps@cern.ch
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: we like to propose a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis. Guidelines are in the Juniors link. As an example: Thesis video by Hannah Bossi is in the CDS link.
OUTREACH NEWS
- Visit to ALICE:
- Saturday 9 September 2023: Silverdale School, UK; ALICE member’s family, Netherlands
- Monday 11 September 2023: Mechanics Association AMAD, Switzerland
- Tuesday 12 September 2023: ALICE members’ family, Poland
- Tuesday 12 September 2023: Greek-French School Jeanne D’Arc, Greece
- Wednesday 13 September 2023: VII PRYWATNE LO KRAKOW, Poland
- Wednesday 13 September 2023: Members of Sonova International
- Thursday 14 September 2023: BRG Amstetten, Austria
- Thursday 14 September 2023: Czacki High School, Poland; Liceo Scientifico Grassi, Italy
- Friday 15 September 2023: Polonia, Poland
- Friday 15 September 2023: Professor D. Home et al, India
- The RAZOR Science Show featured in ALICE: "Going back to the Big Bang, in the hunt for Dark Matter"
- CERN Science Gateway opening on 8 October 2023:
- Take part in the CERN Science Gateway inauguration ceremony! On 7 October 2023, CERN will officially open the Science Gateway. Volunteer to take part!
- CERN Science Gateway: science and fun for kids (and everyone else)
- 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.
- A new course for science Communication for CERN guides is now open for registrations.
- Many other trainings, linked to the opening of CERN Science Gateway, are still available for registration:
- Introduction course: describing the new opportunities offered by Science Gateway – to be followed no later than 2024
- Science Gateway facilities: mandatory for those planning to join any Science Gateway activity – see below
- Science Gateway interactive exhibitions
- Science Gateway lab workshops
- Science Gateway science shows
- Articles related to becoming a Guide:
- Take part in the CERN Science Gateway inauguration ceremony! On 7 October 2023, CERN will officially open the Science Gateway. Volunteer to take part!
DIVERSITY
- ID lanyard celebrates diversity and inclusion at CERN: Pick yours up at Building 55 or from your departmental Diversity & Inclusion Officer (DIO).
- 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!