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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- 157th LHCC Meeting - OPEN Session, 28 Feb 2024, 09:00
- ALICE week, 4-8 Mar 2024
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- The ALICE Collaboration at CERN is now on LinkedIn! Come and join us. The page will be dedicated to news from physics, experiment, people, as well as to the ALICE Alumni community!
- Accelerator Report: The accelerator complex gears up for action after the yearly winter maintenance break
- CERN70: A first discovery
- CERN70 public event: From particle physics to medicine
- CERN Council reviews progress of feasibility study for a next-generation collider
- 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 19 Feb 2024, 14:00: "Factorial growth at low orders in perturbative QCD: Control over truncation uncertainties" by Andreas Kronfeld
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 20 Feb 2024, 14:00: "Conformal multi-Regge theory" by Vasco Goncalves (Porto U.)
- CERN Lattice Coffee, Tuesday 20 Feb 2024, 16:00: "Inclusive semileptonic decays of charmed and bottomed mesons from lattice QCD" by Ryan Kellermann (SOKENDAI)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 21 Feb 2024, 14:00
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 22 Feb 2024, 11:00: "sin2thetaeff" by Alessandro Vicini (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT)), Federico Vazzoler (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))
- Discussion of theoretical systematics in LHC precision measurements, 26–27 Feb 2024, CERN
- The Inverted CSC (iCSC): 15–18 Apr 2024 at CERN
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.
- 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 March 3 to March 11
- ECS blocks from February 23 to March 7
- The booking includes 2 periods:
- YETS 2023-2024:
- Next week marks the start of the 2024 operations, with regular morning and afternoon shifts. Daily meetings will also resume from Monday 19 February at 16:30 at P2.
- We would also like to welcome Stefano Panebiano from CEA-Saclay, who will be our Run Manager for the next two weeks!
- LHC beam operations will resume on 11 March 2024
- Underground access stops 5 March 2024
- First stable beams at injection energy are expected around March 20
- Ongoing: detector maintenance and global commissioning of central systems
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Lake Louise Winter Institute 2024, Lake Louise, Canada, 18-23 February
- The 16th Terascale Detector Workshop, Mainz, 19-23 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, opportunities for Overview talks (Alice Upgrades and ALICE recent HF results in parallel sessions; contact CC chairs
- CPOD 2024 workshop, LBL, USA, 20-24 May, abstract Deadline 1 March
- 20th International Conference on Calorimetry in Particle Physics (CALOR2024), Tsukuba, Japan, 19-24 May, abstract deadline 15 March
- 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
- 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
- QNP 2024 — The 10th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics, Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 15 March
- ICHEP 2024, Prague, Czech Republic, 17-24 July, abstract deadline 29 February, central submission except for posters
- Nucleus-Nucleus NN2024, Whistler, Canada, 18-23 August, abstract deadline 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
- Summer School "From Hadronic Structure to Heavy-Ion Collisions", Orsay, France, 9-15 June, registration deadline 31 Apr 2024
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MidSummer School in QCD 2024, Saariselka, Finland, 24 June - 6 July, registration deadline 1 March
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2024 CTEQ Summer School on QCD and Electroweak Phenomenology, Munster, Germany, 21-31 August, registration deadline 1 March
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INFN School of Statistics, Paestum (Salerno, Italy), 13-17 of May 2024. The school intends to provide an overview of statistical methods and tools used in particle, astro-particle and nuclear physics, registration deadline 30 March
JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Florian, Luca):
- The election for a new junior representative (replacing Carolina Reetz) is NOW OPEN. Here is the Link to Vote.
There you also find further information about the three candidates: Bianca Sabiu (Bologna, IT), Brian Gerald Hanley (Wayne State, US) and Gleb Romanenko (Bologna, IT). The elected candidate will be announced during the JUNIORS DAY on March 07.
- ALICE Theses website
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis.
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 10 February 2024
- CERN Alumni groups
- ALICE member’s friends, Italy
- Sunday 11 February 2024
- ALICE members’ friends, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal
- Monday 12 February 2024
- Liceo Enrico Fermi, Italy
- ALICE members’ friends, Italy, Austria
- VIP visit: Professor Tim Jones, Vice-Chancellor, University of Liverpool, UK
- Tuesday 13 February 2024
- University of Heidelberg, Germany
- INFN Cagliari, Italy
- Wednesday 14 February 2024
- University of Maastricht, Netherlands
- College Einaudi, Torino, Italy
- ALICE member’s friends, Poland
- Thursday 15 February 2024
- Danish engineers
- ALICE members’ friends and family: Türkiye, Russia, Raayland College, Netherlands
- General Lyceum of Alikianos, Greece
- VIP visit: Her excellency, Ms Sari Multala, Minister of Science and Culture, Republic of Finland
- Friday 16 February 2024
- 1st General Lyceum of Pallini, Greece
- UK Teacher Programme
- ALICE member’s friends, Switzerland
- Saturday 10 February 2024
- ALICE virtual visits
- Monday 12 February 2024 virtual visit for particle therapy masterclass: Tetovo, North Macedonia, and Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Thursday 15 February 2024 virtual visit for ALICE masterclass, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Thursday 15 February 2024 virtual visit for ALICE masterclass, Trieste, Italy
- International Masterclasses 2024 - International Day of Women and Girls in STEM:
Thursday 15 February 2024 ALICE masterclasses held by Mexico UNAM, Nantes (France), Trieste (Italy), Thessaloniki (Greece)
- 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
- Celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11 February 2023): Stories from CERN's women in science
- New webpage on ethics at CERN
- 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!