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No.278,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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This week, ALICE FoCal groups from Japan and India are testing prototype detectors at the T9 beamline facility of CERN PS
- ALICE week: 16-20 October 2023 at CERN
- starts on Monday 16 October at 11:00 hrs, Council Chamber
- Juniors’ Day, Thursday 19 October, 14:00 hrs, Council Chamber
- Collaboration Board, Friday 20 Oct 2023, 09:00 hrs, Council Chamber: the CB meetings (which are held in a hybrid format) are open to all ALICE members, except during the Formal Voting for an Election.
- starts on Monday 16 October at 11:00 hrs, Council Chamber
- 4th ALICE Upgrade week: 4-7 December 2023 in Torino: the deadline for early registration is on 27 October. The programme will be entirely plenary. Ample time will be devoted to ALICE 3, and also covers the FoCal and ITS3 projects.
- Physics Forums: The last two sessions of the Physics Forum this year will take place on 15 November and 13 December.
- LHC Early Career Mentoring Programme 2023/2024: Application for mentors and mentees is now open. Please register here.
- LHC Job Matching Event, 24 October 2023
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Run 3 heavy-ion runs: Photos, videos and links to articles are in the ALICE website
- Recent Videos on Run 3 lead ion collisions:
- CERN Bulletin articles on Run 3 lead ion collisions:
- CERN News: "ALICE reports new charmonia measurements in LHC Run 3"
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar, Friday 13 Oct 2023, 11:00: "The experimental setup of BDF/SHiP proposed for ECN3" by Daniel Bick (Institut fur Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg)
- Seminars, Tuesday 17 Oct 2023, 11:00: "Detector requirements and concepts for future hadron and muon colliders" by Donatella Lucchesi (Universita e INFN, Padova (IT)), Michele Selvaggi (CERN)
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 17 Oct 2023, 14:00: "Dynamical R-matrix for superspin chains from the Bethe/Gauge correspondence" by Nafiz Ishtiaque (IHES)
- CERN Lattice Coffee, Tuesday 17 Oct 2023, 16:00: "Fixed Point Interpretation of a Chirally Broken Phase" by Roman Zwicky (Edinburgh University)
- "Stress management seminar: cardiac coherence" 18 Oct 2023, CERN
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 19 Oct 2023, 13:30: "QCD, Dilaton and Infrared Fixed Points" by Roman Zwicky (Edinburgh University)
- Detector Seminar, Friday 20 Oct 2023, 11:00: "The experimental setup of SHADOWS proposed for ECN3" by Brendan Regnery (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
- "LHC Job Matching Event (JMEv) Fall 2023" 24 Oct 2023
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
| Title | Details | Submission date |
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11 Oct 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).
NEWS FROM POINT 2
- Optimisation for greater success (and new challenges): Accelerator report in the CERN Bulletin (12 Oct 2023) by Rende Steerenberg:
Experts from the ALICE experiment and the LHC machine collaborated closely to tackle the issue of background noise in the ALICE detector: many different remedial strategies were studied and tested during several fills over a period of more than 30 hours. Finally, the correction of residual dispersion (see the box below) reduced the background noise to a satisfactory level for ALICE to take physics data in the coming weeks.
These graphs from the ALICE ZDC show the level of background noise before and after the correction of the residual dispersion. The peak in the middle represents the level of beam signal.
- LHC in production mode with full machine, fills of ~ 5h going from 45-47 kHz to 10kHz at dump
- ALICE efficiency from 50% to 90%. Consolidation work ongoing to tackle all issues.
- 0.8 inverse nanobarn delivered to ALICE
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- The 32nd International Workshop on Vertex Detectors, Sestri Levante (GE, IT), 16-20 October 2023.
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 2nd workshop on advancing the understanding of non-perturbative QCD using energy flow, Stony Brook University, USA, 6-9 November, abstract deadline 18 October. Contact CC Chairs.
- 14th Int Workshop on Multiple parton Interactions at LHC MPI@LHC 2023, Manchester, UK, 20-24 November, abstract deadline 16 October, contact CC chairs.
- XVI Polish Workshop on Relativistic Heavy Ion collisions, Kielce, Poland 2-3 December, abstract deadline 15 November.
- International Conference on High Energy Particle & Astroparticle Physics (ICHEPAP2023), Kolkata, 11-15 December, abstract deadline 1 November.
- 23rd ZIMÁNYI Winter Workshopon HI physics, Budapest, Hungary, 4-8 December, abstract deadline 15 October.
- Miami 2023 Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, 13-19 December, abstract deadline 30 October, contact CC chairs.
SCHOOLS
- 2nd School on Advanced Instrumentation and Analysis Techniques, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 9 December, registration deadline 20 November
Dates of major conferences in 2024:
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Florian, Luca):
- Juniors’ Day, 19 October: During the upcoming ALICE week at CERN we invite you all to join the Juniors’ Day happening in the afternoon of Thursday, 19 October, both at CERN and online. The afternoon program will be followed by the Juniors’ Dinner in R1!
- 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 7 October 2023 ALICE member’s friend, India
- Monday 9 October 2023 5th Junior High-School of Stavroupoli, Greece; Quantica, Mexico
- Thursday 12 October 2023 ALICE member’s friends, Spain
- Saturday 7 October 2023 ALICE member’s friend, India
- "A new highly precise measurement of the hypertriton lifetime" article based on interview of Maximiliano Puccio.
- CERN Science Gateway: highlights from the opening weekend
- CERN: The library is open again! 24/7!
DIVERSITY
- Mental health support: In light of World Mental Health Day on 10 October, whose overall objective is to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and mobilise efforts in support of mental health, CERN’s Medical service and psychologists invite you to three interactive sessions to learn effective and useful tools to better deal with stress:
- Flash disconnection, Wednesday 11 October
- Cardiac coherence, Wednesday 18 October
- Self-evaluation tool, Wednesday 25 October
- "Work well feel well: No, no… it’s OK… Developing an awareness of health indicators": While a healthy amount of stress can provide motivation and drive, when work commitments are high, stress can negatively impact our health. It's essential to put measures in place to protect our health from the harmful effects of chronic stress.
This is the first of a 12-part Work Well Feel Well series, with articles to be published every two months.
- 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!