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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- CERN Alumni Third Collisions, 9 - 11 Feb: Celebrate the exceptional journeys of CERN alumni, in the year of CERN's 70th anniversary. Read more.
- Charm is better than beauty at going with the flow
- CERN celebrates 70 years of scientific discovery and innovation
- CERN Courier (Jan-Feb 2024): Dielectrons take the temperature of Pb–Pb collisions
- 157th LHCC Meeting - OPEN Session will take place on 28 February 2024.
- Next Physics Forum Dates for 2024
- 13 March (extra-ordinary)
- 10 April (during mini-week)
- 15 May (during SQM+LHCP approvals)
- 19 June (during mini-week)
- 21 August (during Hard Probes previews)
- 2 October (extra-ordinary)
- 6 November (mini-week)
- 4 December (during physics week)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- QCD Seminar, Monday 12 Feb 2024, 14:00: "Determination of the MSbar weak mixing angle" by Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 13 Feb 2024, 14:00: "Exponential networks for linear partitions" by Johannes Walcher
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 13 Feb 2024, 16:00: "Collinear resonant ionization spectroscopy of RaF" by Carlos Mario Fajardo Zambrano (KU Leuven (BE))
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 14 Feb 2024, 11:30: "The cosmic QCD transition for large lepton flavour asymmetries" by Isabel Oldengott (Louvain University, CP3)
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 15 Feb 2024, 11:00: "Unveiling the polarisation of weak bosons in LHC processes" by Giovanni Pelliccioli (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik), Luka Selem (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
| Title | Internal | Submission date |
| 24 Jan 2024 |
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
- Shift booking is open for the whole 2024 run!
- The booking includes 2 periods:
- 19 Feb - 24 Sep 2024: shifts open to any member of the collaboration, reservation via SAMS. It represents 86% of the available shifts.
- 25 Sep - 28 Oct 2024: Heavy Ion shifts, reservation via SAMS restricted to collaborators that have a valid "Expert" permission. If you have experience as central shifter and are willing to commit for this exciting data taking period, but you are not yet identified as Expert for your preferred shift role, do not hesitate to contact the Run Coordination !
- One of the pre-requisites for booking central shifts is to have an ACTIVE SLIMOS permission for the duration of your shifts. The status of all permissions can be checked in the SAMS profile. The SLIMOS permission has to be renewed every 3 years by following the corresponding e-learning course and passing the test, as described here.
- All informations related to shifts and operations are described in the ALICE Operation Website.
- In case of questions don't hesitate to contact the systems SRCs and Run Coordination :
- Run Coordination : alice-rc
- Training coordinator for SL: Silvia Pisano
- DCS: Peter Chochula (Peter.Chochula@cern.ch) and Andre Augustinus
- ECS: Roberto Divia
- QC: Daniele De Gruttola
- We would like to thank all institutes that already committed to the ALICE operations!
- Several critical blocks are still available, in particular during the first two weeks of operations:
- SL blocks from 23 February to 11 March
- DCS blocks 23-26 February and from 29 February to 3 March
- ECS blocks: 21-28 February and 2-7 March
- QC blocks 19-22 February
- The booking includes 2 periods:
- YETS 2023-2024:
- This week we completed a Milestone Week, during which we verified and validated several new features in the central systems. It also allowed to identify some remaining issues that will be addressed in the coming weeks, and tested during the LHC commissioning. We would like to thank all the experts involved, both from central systems and detectors, for the very efficient and fruitful work!
- LHC beam operations will resume on 11 March 2024
- Underground access stops 5 March 2024
- Ongoing: detector maintenance and commissioning of central systems
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 39th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Jackson, Wyoming, USA, 11-17 February
- Lake Louise Winter Institute 2024, Lake Louise, Canada, 18-23 February
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 31st International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2024), Grenoble, France, 8-12 April, abstract deadline 9 Feb.
- Corfu Workshop on Future Accelerators CORFU2024, Corfu, Greece, 19-26 May, abstract deadline 15 February.
- International Workshop on Partial Wave Analyses and Advanced Tools for Hadron Spectroscopy (PWA13/ATHOS8), Williamsburg,Virginia, US, 28 May - 1 June, abstract deadline 1 March
- SQM 2024, Strasbourg France, 3-7 June, abstract deadline 17 February, central submission for talks, poster submission by presenters.
- LHCP2024, Boston, USA, 3 Jun 2024, abstract deadline for poster submission 15 February
- ICHEP 2024, Prague, Czech Republic, 17-24 July, abstract deadline 16 February, central submission for talks, poster submission by presenters.
- Nucleus-Nucleus NN2024, Whistler, Canada, 18-23 August, abstract deadline for posters only 29 February
- FPCP, Flavour Physics and CP Violation Conference 2024, Bangkok, Thailand, 27-31 May, abstract deadline 15 March, Invitation for plenary talk on heavy flavor + future: contact CC chairs
- QCD@LHC 2024, Freiburg, Germany 7 Oct, abstract deadline 15 March, Invitation for a plenary talk (25+5) "Highlights of Heavy Ions Collisions at the LHC" contact CC chairs
SCHOOLS
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MidSummer School in QCD 2024, Saariselka, Finland, 24 June - 6 July, registration deadline 1 March
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INFN School of Statistics, Paestum (Salerno, Italy), 12-18 of May 2024. The school intends to provide an overview of statistical methods and tools used in particle, astro-particle and nuclear physics.
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 3 February 2024
- Bank for International Settlements, Switzerland
- Saint Paul Piraeus High-School, Greece
- ALICE members’ friends, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Spain
- Monday 5 February 2024
- Istituto Sobrero, Italy
- VUB Physics students, Belgium
- Nikhef Network Group, Netherlands
- Professional visitor, Canada;
- Artist Patricia Dominguez, arts@CERN, filming in the ALICE cavern
- Tuesday 6 February 2024
- Milan School, Italy
- Privatgymnasium St. Leon-Rot, Germany
- ALICE open visit
- ALICE members’ friends, Switzerland
- Wednesday 7 February 2024
- 3rd General Lyceum of New Ionia, Greece
- Liceo Musicale G.B.Grassi, Lecco, italy
- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- LPSC Staff, Grenoble, France
- Schwarz Gewindesysteme, Germany
- Thursday 8 February 2024
- New Scientist, Netherlands
- 2nd Lyceum of Agios Dimitrios, Greece
- Danish engineers
- CERN and Society Foundation, Germany
- Direction des ressources humaines de la Direction de la Recherche Fondamentale CEA, France
- Friday 9 February 2024 St. Gengoux Team, France
- FH Wels, Austria
- Randonné Suisse
- ALICE member’s family, Netherlands
- Saturday 3 February 2024
- International Masterclasses 2024 - International Day of Women and Girls in STEM:
To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11 February) special masterclasses for girls are organised on Friday 9 February. ALICE masterclasses are held by iThemba Labs, Cape Town, CTU Prague, Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Muenchen and Muenster in Germany and in Greece (online)
- From Academia to Industry: Wednesday 7 February 2024: "From colliding lead-ions at CERN to engineering the future of transportation" by Dr Jan Urbahn (Canoo Technologies, Dallas).
DIVERSITY
 (Left) Livia Terlizzi of ALICE: an Italian physicist, oversees the operation of the muon spectrometer of the ALICE experiment. She’s also doing research and development on silicon detectors for the upcoming ALICE detector upgrade. (Right) Sorina Popescu, Jenny Lunde, Pinelopi Christodoulou, Federica Fabiano, Joni Pham, Livia Terlizzi, Tetiana Hryn'ova, Deepti Khandol, Alicia del Barrio Montañés. (Images: CERN) |
- "WIT Impostor Syndrome Workshop": 9 February 2024: Ever felt like you weren't deserving of your achievements? Thought it was all just luck? You're not alone! Impostor Syndrome is that sneaky voice in your head making you doubt your incredible skills, talents, and accomplishments. It's the shadow that makes you question if you're a "fraud", even when the spotlight clearly shines on your successes. WIT (Women in Technology), CERN has organized a workshop where we will introduce impostor syndrome, including what it is and how it usually manifests. After an introductory talk, participants will split in small groups to do hands-on exercises.
- 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!