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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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First Heavy Ion Stable Beam is expected between Sunday 24 and Monday 25 September, the exact start time will be announced on short notice depending on the advancement of ion commissioning.
- Ongoing: ALICE mini week - September 2023
- ALICE week: 16-20 October 2023 at CERN
- 4th ALICE Upgrade week: 4-7 December 2023 in Torino
- LHC Early Career Mentoring Programme 2023/2024: Application for mentors and mentees is now open. Please register here.
The program aims at connecting early career scientists, who have well-defined professional goals, with experienced researchers, who are willing to guide a young scientist along their path and pass along part of their knowledge, experience, and insights in order to help them achieve their short- and long-term goals. It is open to all members of any CERN experiment.
- CERN Science Gateway: CERN's new flagship project for science education and outreach, opening on 8 October 2023
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- CERN News: "ALICE reports new charmonia measurements in LHC Run 3": The ALICE collaboration presents its first results based on data collected with the upgraded detector in 2022, the first year of Run 3 of the LHC, at the 2023 Quark Matter conference:
- ALICE briefing for Quark Matter 2023: this website links to the photos in CDS and talks.
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Science Show - Seeing the invisible: 25 Sep 2023
- Cardiovascular Health Campaign: conference with the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG) and the Save a Life Association: 26 Sep 2023
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 26 Sept 2023, 16:00: "Symmetries of local, finite range, potentials" by Efstathios Karataglidis (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 26 Sept 2023, 16:00: "Aspects of the D0 brane black hole and a SUSY SYK model" by Anna Biggs (Princeton U.)
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 27 Sept 2023, 11:30: "Dark matter and baryogenesis from long-lived particles in the visible sector" by Rouzbeh Allahverdi (University of New Mexico)
- Cardiovascular Health Campaign: how stress impacts our health: 27 Sep 2023
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 27 Sept 2023, 14:00: "Kinetic field theory for cosmic structure formation" by Matthias Bartelmann (U. Heidelberg, ITP)
- CERN Library Reopen: 28-29 Sep 2023
- "KT Seminar on 29 Sep at 9:00": How AI and a CERN federated learning platform can assist clinicians in the management of stroke patients
- Creating Daneel: a ChatGTP-Based Chatbot for CERN: Friday 29 Sept 2023, 10:00.
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
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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
- pp data taking at reference energy, 0.7 Billion INEL events collected.
- Sucessfull start of Heavy Ion commissioning. Set-up and collimation studies ongoing.
- ALICE succesfully delivered lumi with ZDC and FIT, 160 Hz of hadronic interaction rate. ZDC and FIT commissioning and time alignement. EMCAL and PHS trigger conifguration commissioning.
- First Heavy Ion Stable Beam is expected between Sunday 24 and Monday 25 September, the exact start time will be announced on short notice depending on the advancement of ion commissioning.
- ALICE Run Manager (18 Sep - 1 Oct 2023): Cristian Andrei:
Cristian Andrei is a physicist from Bucharest NIPNE. He is a specialist in pion, kaon, and proton production in high multiplicity pp events, studying the dependency of their production as a function of charged particle multiplicity and event shape. He is an active member of the PWG-LF and has made significant contributions and has been member of several analysis and paper review committees (ARC, IRC). Cristian has substantial experience in data taking and ALICE operation at P2. Since 2016, he has taken up all central shifter positions: ECS, DCS, QC and SL. He has experience operating ALICE during the previous heavy ion run period and was a Run Manager in 2018.
Cristian will face an incredible challenge as he will be in charge of the first RUN 3 Heavy Ion data taking. The ion run is scheduled after a break of 10 weeks (with only 17 hours of stable beam). During this time, major components were deployed, integrated, and validated with cosmics, synthetic and replay data.
To make sure we collect a beautiful heavy ion data sample, Cristian, like all Run Managers before him, knows he can count on the incredible spirit of all experts of P2.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 25th International Spin Symposium (SPIN 2023), DUke University, US, 24-29 September
- IPRD23 - 16th Topical Seminar on Innovative Particle and Radiation Detectors,Siena,Italy, 25-29 September
- 3rd African Conference of Fundamental and Applied Physics (ACP2023), George, South Africa, 25 September
- Alhazen2023, Giza, Egypt, 26 September
- III SBF SPRING MEETING (Brazilian Physical Society 2023), Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 26-29 September
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 42nd International Symposium on Physics in Collision 2023 (PIC 2023), Arica, Chile, 10-13 October, abstract deadline 25 September
- 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.
- 3rd International Conference on Detector Stability and Aging Phenomena in Gaseous Detectors, CERN, Switzerland, 6-10 November, abstract deadline 30 October
- 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.
- 16th International Conference on Heavy Quarks and Leptons (HQL 2023), Mumbai, India, 28 November-2 December 2023, abstract deadline 30 September: opportunities for CF in Spectroscopy session
- 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.
- International Conference on High Energy Particle & Astroparticle Physics (ICHEPAP2023), 11-15 December, abstract deadline 1 November
SCHOOLS
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Florian, Luca):
- LHC Early Career Mentoring Program: Application for mentors and mentees is now open. Please register here.. 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
The LHC Early Career Mentoring Program is organised jointly by the representatives of early career scientists in each of the four large LHC experiments and is open to all members of any CERN experiment.
The program aims at connecting early career scientists, who have well-defined professional goals, with experienced researchers, who are willing to guide a young scientist along their path and pass along part of their knowledge, experience, and insights in order to help them achieve their short- and long-term goals. Both mentors and mentees from past editions of the program have largely profited from their participation.
- 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 16 September 2023: Birkdale School, UK
- Saturday 16 September 2023: Lancaster School of Mathematics, UK
- Monday 18 September 2023: Queensland Academy for Science Mathematics and Technology, Australia
- Tuesday 19 September 2023: Index School, Poland
- Tuesday 19 September 2023: City of Bristol College, UK
- Tuesday 19 September 2023: CERN colleagues
- Wednesday 20 September 2023: XXX LO WARSZAWA, Poland
- Wednesday 20 September 2023: Physics students, Poland
- Thursday 21 September 2023: 1st High School of Corfu, Greece
- Friday 15 September 2023: High School of New Peramos Attiki Greece;
- Friday 15 September 2023: CERN colleagues
- 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!