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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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A snapshot from the ALICE end of run party (31 October 2023):
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- O2 analysis tutorial: 6-10 November 2023
- ALICE Software and Computing Days (including FLP/PDP Plenary): 8-10 November 2023
- ALICE Mini Week: 13-17 November 2023
- 4th ALICE Upgrade week: 4-7 December 2023 in Torino
- Physics Forums: The last two sessions of the Physics Forum this year will take place on 15 November and 13 December
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- A journey from CERN to entrepreneurship: Through CERN Venture Connect, a new programme that helps launch startups at CERN, ideas can grow to shape the future of technology
- Celebrate Dark Matter Day at CERN Science Gateway (3 November 2023), 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
- 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:
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- "Dark Matter Day", 3 November 2023, CERN. Public event
- Book presentation - Advances in cosmology: 3 November 2023
- EP Seminar, Tuesday 7 Nov 2023, 11:00: "B+ -> K+ nu nubar and other highlights from Belle II" by Elisa Manoni (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 7 Nov 2023, 16:00: "Emission Mössbauer spectrometer from ILmenau (eMIL): An update & TDPAC measurements in Bismuth Ferrite" by Alice Kern, Danylo Kviatkovskyi
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 9 Nov 2023, 11:00: "Heavy Neutral Leptons" by Matthias Saimpert (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)), Stefan Antusch (U. Basel)
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 9 Nov 2023, 13:30: "Gluon fusion Higgs production in SMEFT to two loops, and dimension eight. The role of the Background field method and Higgs field Space geometries" by Michael Robert Trott (PI - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (CA)).
- Detector Seminar, Friday 10 Nov 2023, 11:00: "DAMSA, A Novel Dark Matter Search Experiment at Fermilab" by Dr Jaehoon Yu (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
- Event generators' and N(n)LO codes' acceleration: 13-14 Nov 2023
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
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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
- The 2023 run has come to an end in the morning of Monday, 30 October 2023. During the weekend the machine provided smooth operation, and went successfully back to 1080b for the last fills.
- The final luminosity without beam background delivered to ALICE is ~1.96 nb-1 (2.16 nb-1 from the start of the HI run).
- ALICE performances have been very good. During fill 9317 (1080b, 8h09 duration) we reached the record data taking efficiency of 99.76%, with a single run of >8h collected during the fill.
- ALICE will now enter the 2023/2024 Year End Technical Stop (YETS).
- End of 2023 shifts: Monday 30 October morning shift marked the End of 2023 shifts.
| A big thanks to all the Run Managers, shift crews, SRCs, on-calls and experts that contributed to the successful completion of a very challenging, and at times very hard 2023 Run!!! |
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- WPCF - Resonance Workshop 2023, XVI Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy & Resonance, Catania (Italy), 6-10 November
- 3rd International Conference on Detector Stability and Aging Phenomena in Gaseous Detectors, CERN, Switzerland, 6-10 November
- 2nd workshop on advancing the understanding of non-perturbative QCD using energy flow, Stony Brook University, USA, 6-9 November
- Machine Learning for Jet Physics 2023 (ML4Jets2023), Hamburg, Germany, 6-10 November
- Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors (CPAD) Workshop, SLAC, 7-10 November
- Workshop on current and future tracking and vertexing detectors 2023, London, 7-8 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.
- 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, invitation for a plenary talk (ALICE recent results), please contact CC chairs.
- 6th Inter-experiment Machine Learning Workshop, 29 January - 2 February 2024, abstract deadline 15 November
- Lake Louise Winter Institute, 18-23 February 2024, Lake Louise, Canada, invitation for two plenary talks (recent results and plans), please 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):
- 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
- 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 28 October 2023 Sevenoaks School, UK
- Saturday 28 October 2023 BAZINGA, Italy
- Monday 30 October 2023 Managing Director - iThemba LABS, South Africa
- Tuesday 31 October 2023 ALICE member’s friends, Hungary
- Wednesday 1 November 2023 Alleyn’s School, UK
- Thursday 2 November 2023 Turkish Mission Staff
- Thursday 2 November 2023 Neuchatel Junior College, Switzerland
- Thursday 2 November 2023 DataStore Management, Switzerland; MIT graduate students, USA
- Thursday 2 November 2023 Antimatter group, France
- Friday 3 November 2023 1st Junior High-School of Chalastra, Greece
- Friday 3 November 2023 Turkish Ambassador Delegation
- Friday 3 November 2023 Swedish Teacher Programme
- Friday 3 November 2023 Istituto di Culture e di Lingua Marcelline, Italy
- "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.
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.
- 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!