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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
ALICE Run Coordinators: past, present, and future:
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The Heavy Ion data taking is the opportunity to meet ALICE Run Coordinators in the control room.
25 October 2023: it was a nice occasion to meet Chilo Garabatos Cuadrado - GSI (Germany) 2010, Paolo Martinengo - CERN 2011, Siegfried Foertsch - iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation (South Africa) 2016, Taku Gunji - U. of Tokyo (Japan) 2019-2021, Federico Ronchetti - INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (Italy) and CERN 2013-2015 and 2022, Sarah Porteboeuf Clermont-Ferrand (France) 2023, Andrea Ferrero - CEA Saclay, (France) appointed for 2024 and Robert Münzer - Frankfurt (Germany) preparing for 2025.
We missed Paul Kuijer, Jan Rak, Gilda Scioli, Grazia Luparello and Kristján Gulbrandsen in this picture!
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- ALICE J/psi->ee workshop: 30 October to 1 November 2023, University of Science and Technology of China
- O2 analysis tutorial: 6-10 November 2023: please Register.
- The LHCC student poster session will take place on Monday, 27 November 2023, 5-7pm at CERN. Contact PWG conveners.
- 4th ALICE Upgrade week: 4-7 December 2023 in Torino: the deadline for early registration is TODAY (27 October). T
- Physics Forums: The last two sessions of the Physics Forum this year will take place on 15 November and 13 December.
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Recent PhDs in ALICE. Congratulations to our new Doctors:
- Dr Junlee Kim
Thesis title: Understanding the nature of f0(980) with ALICE at the LHC
CDS: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2868636?ln=en
Defense date: 04 July 2023 at Jeonbuk National University, Republic of Korea
Supervisor: Eun-Joo Kim
Service task: luminosity measurement
- Dr Ezra Lesser
Thesis title: "Measurements of jet substructure in pp and Pb-Pb collisions at √sNN =5.02 TeV with ALICE”
CDS: https://cds.cern.ch/record/287826
Graduation date: 22 October 2023 at University of California, Berkeley
Supervisor: Barbara Jacak
Service work: online software and QC for ITS
- Dr Junlee Kim
- Run 3 heavy-ion runs: Photos, videos and links to articles are in the ALICE website
- Recent Videos on Run 3 lead ion collisions:
- ALICE physics - from proton-proton to lead ion collisions by Marco van Leeuwen
- ALICE Spokesperson's message: by Marco van Leeuwen
- What is the main physics interest of ALICE in Run 3: by Alexander Kalweit, ALICE Physics Coordinator
- What's new for lead ion collisions: by Sarah Porteboeuf, ALICE Run Coordinator
- Lead-lead collisions start at the LHC after 5 years
- CERN Bulletin articles on Run 3 lead ion collisions:
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WE-Heraeus-Seminar on "Forward Physics and QCD at the LHC and EIC", Bad-Honnef,Germany, 23-27 October:
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Congratulations to Florian Jonas (left) for the Best Poster Award and to Simone Ragoni (right) for an honorable mention.
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- BE Seminars, Friday 27 Oct 2023, 16:00: "Mixed Reality human-robot interface for remote operations in accelerator facilities" by Mr Krzysztof Adam Szczurek (University Jaume I (ES))
- QCD Seminars, Monday 30 Oct 2023, 14:00: "Exclusive charmless B decays: Towards a factorization framework for power-corrections" by Philipp Böer.
- "Electroweak milestones - 50 years of neutral currents, 40 years of W and Z bosons" 31 October 2023, CERN
- EP Seminar, Tuesday 31 Oct 2023, 11:00: "Antimatter Gravitation Studies with Trapped Antihydrogen" by William Alan Bertsche (University of Manchester (GB))
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 31 Oct 2023, 16:00: "Decoding AdS black holes with N=4 super-Yang-Mills" by Ying-Hsuan Lin (Harvard U.)
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 1 Nov 2023, 11:30: "The cosmic QCD transition for large lepton flavour asymmetries" by Isabel Oldengott (Louvain University, CP3)
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 2 Nov 2023, 11:00: "h->aa searches in CMS and ATLAS" by Pallabi Das (Princeton University (US)), Yesenia Hernandez Jimenez (Stony Brook University (US))
- Detector Seminar, Friday 3 Nov 2023, 11:00: "High Intensity Kaon Experiments proposed for the ECN3" by Angela Romano (University of Birmingham (GB))
- "Dark Matter Day", 3 November 2023, CERN. Public event.
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
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16 Oct 2023 |
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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
- LHC provided smooth operation at 960b over the past two days, with ~61% of the time in Stable Beams. This Friday morning the total luminosity without beam background delivered to ALICE has reached ~1.74 nb-1 (1.94 nb-1 in total).
- ALICE performances are very good, with a running time efficiency routinely exceeding 80% for long fills. Machine will continue production for physics until Sunday night, aiming to maximise the delivered lumi to the experiments.
- Lead-ion collisions at the LHC ends on 30 October at 6 AM.
- ALICE End Of Run Party will take place on Tuesday 31 Oct 2023, 11:30 following the RC Weekly Meeting. Please register.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 4th Heavy Flavour Meeting 2023, Goa, India, 2-4 November
- 2023 IEEE NSS MIC RTSD Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 4-11 November
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- XVI Polish Workshop on Relativistic Heavy Ion collisions, Kielce, Poland 2-3 December, abstract deadline 15 November.
- 67th DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics (SNP-2023), Indore, India, 9-13 December, abstract deadline 30 October (plenary)
- International Conference on High Energy Particle & Astroparticle Physics (ICHEPAP2023), Kolkata, 11-15 December, abstract deadline 5 November.
- Miami 2023 Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, 13-19 December, abstract deadline 30 October, contact CC chairs: (plenary talk opportunity + topical one)
- Synergies between the EIC and the LHC, Hamburg, Germany, 14-15 December, abstract deadline 31 October
- 6th Inter-experiment Machine Learning Workshop, 29 January - 2 February 2024, abstract deadline 15 November
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):
- ALICE Theses website (NEW)
- 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.
OUTREACH NEWS
- Possible dates and consideration for ALICE cavern visits:
- L3 doors will remain closed & magnets off
- Private visits possible from 30 Oct 2023 to 5 Mar 2024
- UX25 will be closed: 19/12 (stopped UX25 ventilation). No access
- AUG test & electrical maintenance LHC2 + ALICE: 22-23 November. NO ACCESS to the whole of Point 2.
- Control modification UX25 ventilation unit: 8 January 2024 (tbc). No access for half a day.
- During the end of the year closure: NO VISITS surface and underground.
- ALICE virtual visits: Virtual Visits to the cavern and ARC possible during upcoming YETS. Virtual visits are highly beneficial for remote audiences, standalone or in combination with local events. To book a virtual visit, contact the ALICE outreach team at the e-mail address: alice-outreach-virtual-visits
- ALICE visits:
- Saturday 21 October 2023 Coop Academy Walkden, UK
- Monday 23 October 2023 ALICE members’ colleagues, Korea
- Tuesday 24 October 2023 Joe Hanson and crew from PBS, USA ( You Tube BeSmart)
- Tuesday 24 October 2023 Dulwich College, UK
- Tuesday 24 October 2023 Archbishop Blanch CofE School, UK
- Wednesday 25 October 2023 Prywatna Szkola podstawowa i Liceum imienia Krolowej Jadwigi w Lublinie, Poland
- Wednesday 25 October 2023 Saint John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy, UK
- Thursday 26 October 2023 International Education Centre of the Moraitis School, Greece
- Friday 27 October 2023 Eltham College, UK; XIV Lyceum Ogolnoksztalcace, Poland
- "Celebrate Dark Matter Day at CERN Science Gateway": On 3 November, Nobel laureate Michel Mayor and other scientists will shed light on the dark side of the sky to celebrate Dark Matter Day 2023 at CERN.
- Wigner Physics Research Centre website on visit of Marco van Leeuwen to Wigner Data Center at the ALICE Analysis Facility and on LHC heavy ion program
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DIVERSITY
- "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
Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!