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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
ALICE website on the LHC Run 3 startup event
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Links to photos, videos and articles in the ALICE website
Congratulations to the Run Coordination and Technical Coordination teams, the project teams, and all those involved in preparing the detectors for Pb-Pb data taking in Run 3 for this achievement!
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CERN Bulletin: "The LHC lead-ion collision run starts": For the coming 5 weeks the LHC experiments will be taking data for their heavy-ion physics programmes!
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CERN Bulletin: "Accelerator Report: SPS and LHC lead-ion physics: navigating technical hurdles for success"
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- 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.
- LHC Job Matching Event, 24 October 24 2023
- CERN Science Gateway: CERN's new flagship project for science education and outreach, opening on 8 October 2023
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Recent PhDs in ALICE. Congratulations to our new Doctor:
- Dr. Oliver Matonoha
Thesis title: Production of strangeness in partonic interactions at the LHC
CDS: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2871283?ln=en
Defense date: June 9, 2023 at Lund University, Sweden
Supervisors: David Silvermyr (main), Peter Christiansen, Alice Ohlson
Service work: de-commissioning/pre-commissioning and commissioning of the TPC during LS2.
- Dr. Oliver Matonoha
- "An exabyte of disk storage at CERN": CERN disk storage capacity passes the threshold of one million terabytes of disk space.
- 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 at Quark Matter 2023: this website links to the photos in CDS and talks.
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- KT Seminars, Friday 29 Sept 2023, 09:00: "How AI and a CERN federated learning platform can assist clinicians in the management of stroke patients" by Luigi Serio (CERN), Pietro Caliandro (Policlinico Gemelli)
- Creating Daneel: a ChatGTP-Based Chatbot for CERN: Friday 29 Sept 2023, 10:00.
- QCD Seminars, Friday 29 Sept 2023, 14:00: "Signal-background interference effects in Higgs-mediated diphoton production beyond NLO" by Federico Buccioni
- "Science Show - Seeing the invisible": 29 September 2023, CERN
- BE Seminars, Friday 29 Sept 2023, 16:00: "Reinforcement Learning in CERN’s accelerators & beyond" by Michael Schenk (CERN)
- "Library Science Talk - DIGITENS : DIGITal ENcyclopedia of European Sociability" 2 October 2023, CERN
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 3 Oct 2023, 14:00: "Towards AdS Distances in String Theory" by Nicolo Petri
- CERN Colloquium, Tuesday 3 Oct 2023, 16:30: "Large-scale Electricity Storage" by Prof. Chris Llewellyn Smith (Oxford University)
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 4 Oct 2023, 11:30: "Search for ultralight dark matter with quantum sensors" by Mr Jordan Gué (SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, LNE)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 4 Oct 2023, 14:00: "Microscopic Bounds on Macroscopic Theories" by Francesco Riva
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 10 Oct 2023, 11:00 by by Jaime Norman of ALICE
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
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PUBLIC PAPERS AND NOTES IN cds
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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
- First stable beams of the lead run were declared on Tuesday around 20:00. Thanks to the excellent preparation by the operations crew at point 2 and elsewhere, we were able to immediately start recording collisions.
- ALICE exceeds for the first time the maximum interaction rate with 15 kHz hadronic interaction at start of fill 9206 with 451b. No issues identified with respect to previous steps.
- 0.04 nbarn-1 delivered
- Fill efficiency 91.5%, 91.58%, 96.29% in fills at 227b. Stable Beam duration between 1h to 5h. Last fill 456b 56% efficicency of 2 hours fills, not related to increase of IR.
- Extensive studies and mitigation strategy evaluation ongoing with respect to the ZDC, ITS, MFT background hot spot at phi=2.4
- Next step at 850b, 30 kHz hadronic IR expected .
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- TWEPP2023 Topical Workshop on electronics for Particle physics, Geremeas, Italy, 1-6 October 2023
- ICALEPC2023, Cape Town, South Africa, 7-13 October 2023
- 13th Thematic CERN School of Computing (tCSC Security 2023), 8-14 October 2023
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 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
- 2nd workshop on advancing the understanding of non-perturbative QCD using energy flow, Stony Brook University, USA, 6-9 November, abstract deadline 18 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
Dates of major conferences next year:
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SCHOOLS
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Florian, Luca):
- 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.
- LHC Early Career Mentoring Program: We are happy to announce the start of the fourth round of the LHC Early Career Mentoring Programme for junior and senior researchers at the LHC!
The programme aims at connecting experienced researchers from an LHC experiment with early career researchers who seek for advice about how to develop their professional skills and want to learn from the expertise of an experienced LHC researcher. For more information on the scope of the programme, please check out the homepage of the program.
If you are interested in the programme, either as mentor or as mentee, make sure to apply here. Applications are open until October 22nd, 2023.
After applying, mentors and mentees will be matched by the Early Career Mentorship Committee and they will work on meeting their own specific set of goals, as proposed by the mentee and agreed upon with the mentor. The mentorship will continue until the end of August 2024, after which point mentor-mentee pairs may continue to meet informally if they wish to do so.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email the organisers at LHC-Early-Career-Mentorship-Committee@cern.ch.
- LHC Job Matching Event, 24 October 2023: Looking for your next position in HEP? Apply to the LHC Job Matching Event (JMEv) Fall 2023, registration to the event is currently open!
The LHC job matching event offers the opportunity for job recruiters and seekers, who both currently work on LHC experiments, to meet in Zoom interview sessions. The event is organised by the LHC Early Career Scientist Fora (LHC ECSF). Please find all further information and the registration details here.
OUTREACH NEWS
- Visit to ALICE:
- Saturday 23 September 2023: The Archer Academy, UK; Circolo Aziendale Banca CRS SPA, Italy
- Saturday 23 September 2023: ALICE member’s friends, Germany
- Monday 25 September 2023: 2nd General Lyceum of Corfu, Greece
- Tuesday 26 September 2023 : Fortismere School, UK
- Wednesday 27 September 2023: I LO BOCHNIA, Poland;
- Wednesday 27 September 2023: ZBC, Denmark
- Thursday 28 September 2023: IISS Dell’Aquila - Staffa, Trinitapoli, Italy
- Friday 29 September 2023: 1st General Lyceum of Pallini, Greece; ALICE member’s family, Czech Republic
- 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.