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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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When lead nuclei (left) are collided, the neutron distribution affects the shape of the quark–gluon plasma matter produced (middle), leaving measurable imprints in the distributions of detected particles (right). (Image: CERN). A new publication in PRL by Giuliano Giacalone, Govert Nijs, and Wilke van der Schee talks about the determination of the Neutron Skin of 208Pb from Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions based on data from ALICE and other LHC experiments. This is highlighted in the recent CERN news: Thick-skinned: Using heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, scientists determine the thickness of neutron “skin” in lead-208 nuclei
- 4th ALICE Upgrade week: 4-7 December 2023 in Torino
- 156th LHCC Meeting - OPEN Session: 29 November 2023: ALICE Status Report will be presented by Sarah Porteboeuf.
- Next Physics Forum will take place on 13 December
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Call for service work (wo)manpower in AOT-Tracks in 2024: the AOT-Track group of the DPG is looking for new (wo)manpower for the Run 3 data and MC studies in the year 2024. The group is already looking for people that can take care of important tasks within the group now for a better organization of the work and a smooth start from January 2024. If interested, please contact respective PWG conveners or the DPG (Chiara, Francesco, Iouri and Mattia) by 1 December 2023.
- ALICE-STAR India Collaboration Meeting, 21-24 November 2023
- Call for nominations of outstanding young experimental or theoretical particle physicists for the two 2024 Early Career Scientist Prizes by IUPAP: deadline 1 February 2024
- International School and workshop on hadron structure at electron Ion Collider: 29 January - 9 February 2024
- CERN Courier (Nov-Dec 2023) Energy Frontier: Collectivity in small systems produced at the LHC
- Run 3 heavy-ion runs: Photos, videos and links to articles are in the ALICE website
- CERN’s new Open Source Program Office: CERN launches its Open Source Program Office to help you with the release of your software and hardware designs.
- Computer Security: Data Centre Nightmares
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Solvay Doctoral School: 6-24 Nov 2023
- QTI Lectures, Friday 17 Nov 2023, 13:00: "Quantum steampunk: Quantum information meets thermodynamics" by Nicole Yunger Halpern (University of Maryland)
- BE Seminars, Friday 17 Nov 2023, 16:00: "Diffusive models and chaos indicators for non-linear betatron motion" by Carlo Emilio Montanari (University of Manchester (GB))
- QCD Seminars, Monday 20 Nov 2023, 14:00: "Special Fixed Target Cross talk: MUonE" by Matteo Fael (CERN), Riccardo Pilato (University of Liverpool (GB))
- Collider Cross Talk, Monday 20 Nov 2023, 14:00: "Special Fixed Target Cross talk: MUonE (note the different day and time)" by Matteo Fael (CERN), Riccardo Pilato (University of Liverpool (GB))
- "Prototyping at CERN networking session" 21 Nov 2023
- Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning (QTML conference 2023): 19–24 Nov 2023, CERN
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 21 Nov 2023, 14:00: "Topological CFT defects on the lattice" by Linnéa Gräns Samuelsson (Microsoft)
- CERN Lattice Coffee, Tuesday 21 Nov 2023, 16:00: "On quark mass contributions: Baryon Octet Sigma Terms in the continuum limit from N_f = 2+1 Lattice QCD with Wilson fermions" by Pia L. J. Petrak (Muenster)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 22 Nov 2023, 14:00: "On Elementary and Composite Particles: the Case of Exotic Hadrons" by Antonio Polosa (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 23 Nov 2023, 11:00: "Higgs boson mass measurements in CMS and ATLAS" by Filippo Errico (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)), Haider Abidi (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
- Detector Seminar, Friday 24 Nov 2023, 11:00: "Towards the CBM experiment at FAIR" by Piotr Gasik (GSI)
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
- Recorded integrated luminosity in 2023 Pb-Pb at 5.36 TeV per nucleon pair (excluding runs with beam background):
During the five-week run with heavy ions, ALICE recorded about 12 billion lead-lead collisions, which is 40 times more than in the previous ten years of data recording from 2009 - 2018.
- YETS 2023-2024 is ongoing, software upgrade are organised every week.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 14th Int Workshop on Multiple parton Interactions at LHC MPI@LHC 2023, Manchester, UK, 20-24 November
- ALPACA ECT* Workshop, Trento, Italy, 20-24 November
- The 3rd International Symposium on Physics and Applications (ISPA 2023), online 22-23 November
- 2023 Fall Meeting of the Division of Nuclear Physics of the American Physical Society and Physical Society of Japan, Hawai, US, 26 November-1 December
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 30th Cracow Epiphany Conference on on Precision Physics at High Energy Colliders, Cracow, Poland, 8-12 January, abstract deadline 1 December
- Lake Louise Winter Institute, 18-23 February 2024, Lake Louise, Canada, abstract deadline 1 December, contact CC chairs
SCHOOLS
- 2nd School on Advanced Instrumentation and Analysis Techniques, 9-17 December 2023, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 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 Saturday 11 November 2023
- Liceo Scientifico San Lorenzo Novara, Italy
- ALICE members’ friends from Italy, Spain, Switzerland
- Monday 13 November 2023
- ALICE Open visit
- Tuesday 14 November 2023
- 1st High School of Glyfada, Greece
- Lyceum Named After Academician Zarifa Aliyeva, Azerbaijan
- arts@CERN (artists WenChi Su and I-Fang Lin)
- Wednesday 15 November 2023
- Kingsbridge Community College, UK
- The University Juliusz Slowacki High School Chorzow, Poland
- ALICE member’s friends, Poland
- Thursday 16 2023
- St. Catherine’s British School, Greece
- Zespol Szkol Elektrycznych i Ogolnoksztalcacych w Krosnie, Poland
- ALICE member’s friends, Greece
- Friday 17 November 2023
- 1st Experimental junior school of Chania, Greece
- INFN Torino Secretariat, Italy; IEH Interns, Switzerland
- JRC, Italy; Google Zurich, Switzerland
- ALICE members’ colleagues, Czech Republic, France, Italy
- Saturday Saturday 11 November 2023
- ALICE in the News:
DIVERSITY
- LGBTQ+ in STEM Day at CERN: Pride Flag Raising: LGBTQ+ in STEM Day is an annual celebration of LGBTQ+ people in STEM disciplines across the world every 18th of November. This year, the CERN Directorate approved a request to raise a LGBTQIA+ Pride flag at CERN's Esplanade on Friday 17 November in lieu of the official LGBTQ+ in STEM Day, Saturday 18 November.
On 17 November, CERN raised the LGBTQ+ flag designed by Valentino Vecchietti in 2021. This version, known as the Progress Pride flag, overlays the familiar rainbow with a purple circle representing the intersex community and coloured arrows to represent transgender people and LGBTQ+ people of colour. The arrows point to the right to indicate progress. (Image: Nikki/Wikimedia Commons).
- "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!