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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- 157th LHCC Meeting - OPEN Session, Wednesday 28 Feb 2024, 09:00: "ALICE Status Report" by Valentina Mantovani Sarti (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE)) at Main Auditorium, CERN
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 29 Feb 2024, 11:00: "Searching for charming splittings at the LHC" by Alba Soto Ontoso (CERN), Nima Zardoshti (CERN)
- Herwig Schopper - a century in physics: 1 March 2024, CERN
- ALICE Week, 4-8 Mar 2024
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- CERN70 public event: From particle physics to medicine
- Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan 2024 Town Meeting, Bucharest, 15-17 April, 2024:
The aim of this meeting is to bring together the Nuclear Physics community in Europe to discuss the long-range perspectives in our field and decide how best to develop it in the next ten to fifteen years. A draft of the LRP2024 Report and its Recommendations will be presented and discussed during the meeting.
This is an excellent opportunity to learn about and discuss the strategic choices of the community for the future of Nuclear Physics research in Europe. The nuclear physics community as a whole is welcome to attend.
- 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
- Discussion of theoretical systematics in LHC precision measurements: 26–27 Feb 2024, CERN
- EP Seminar, Tuesday 27 Feb 2024, 11:00: "Recent Results from IceCube and a Glimpse of the Neutrino Astronomy’s Future" by Jeffrey Lazar (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 27 Feb 2024, 15:00: "Fermion-Monopole Scattering and Generalized Symmetries" by Marieke Van Beest
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 27 Feb 2024, 16:00: "In-source Laser Spectroscopy Studies of Neutron-rich Thallium at ISOLDE" by Zixuan Yue (University of York (GB))
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 28 Feb 2024, 14:00
- Focus topic meeting - ttbar threshold, Wednesday 28 Feb 2024, 17:00
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 2 March 2 to 9 March
- ECS blocks from 2 March to 7 March
- The booking includes 2 periods:
- ALICE Run Manager (19 February - 2 March 2024): Stefano Panebianco
Stefano is a physicist from CEA-Saclay in France, with a decade-long expertise in the measurement of the nucleons structure and the dynamics of gluons. He is a specialist in particle detection with silicon-based sensors, and the Project Leader of the Muon Forward Tracker (MFT).
During his mandate Stefano has the charge of restarting the global commissioning through COSMICS and SYNTHETIC data taking, and the testing of new features, in particular the restarting of runs in the same environment and the implementation of non-critical tasks.
- YETS 2023-2024:
- Restart of P2 operations:
This week we restarted the ALICE P2 operations with regular central shifts. The shift crew is focusing on the global commissioning through COSMICS and SYNTHETIC data taking, and the testing of new features, in particular the restarting of runs in the same environment and the implementation of non-critical tasks. In parallel the maintenance of detectors is still ongoing, before the closure of the cavern in the beginning of March.
- LHC beam operations will resume on 11 March 2024
- Underground access stops 5 March 2024
- First stable beams at injection energy are expected around 20 March 2024
- Ongoing: detector maintenance and global commissioning of central systems
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Sesto Incontro Nazionale INFN, Trento, IT, 26-28 February
- QWG 2024,16th International Workshop on Heavy Quarkonium Mohali, India, 26 February - 1 March
- XXVII Rencontres de Physique de La Vallée d'Aoste Rencontres-La Thuile, Italy, 3-9 March
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
- Corfu Workshop on Future Accelerators CORFU2024, Corfu, Greece, 19 May, abstract deadline 29 February
- 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
- 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
- The Inverted CSC (iCSC), 15–18 Apr 2024 at CERN, deadline: 12 April
- INFN School of Statistics, Paestum, Italy, 12 May, registration deadline 30 March
- Summer School "From Hadronic Structure to Heavy-Ion Collisions", Orsay, France, 9-15 June, registration deadline 31 April
- MCnet Summer School, 10–14 Jun 2024, CERN, registration deadline: 15 April 2024
- III Joint ICTP-SAIFR/ICTP-Trieste Summer School on Particle Physics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 24 June, registration deadline 20 April
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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
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Special announcement and dates of major conferences in 2024:
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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 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 17 February 2024
- Bedwas High School, UK
- CC-IN2P3 students, France
- ALICE members’ friends, Switzerland, Germany, Italy
- Sunday 18 February 2024
- ALICE member’s friends, France
- Monday 19 February 2024
- ALICE member’s friends, Poland
- Tuesday 20 February 2024
- The Bishop’s Stortford High School, UK
- Ridgewood High School, UK
- Arts@CERN (Joanna Bruckner)
- KBio Health, South Korea
- Professional visitors from FCC
- Wednesday 21 February 2024
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ghent University, Belgium
- Linux Foundation, USA
- ALICE member’s friends, Switzerland
- Professional visitors from FCC
- Thursday 22 February 2024
- 3rd General Lyceum of Keratsini, Greece
- The American College of Greece, Greece
- Civil Service Leadership Group, UK
- CERN IT Department
- Polish mission
- Friday 23 February 2024
- American Farm School, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Liceo Volta, Riccione, Italy
- ALICE members' friends, Slovakia, Germany, UK
- Saturday 17 February 2024
- ALICE virtual visits
- Friday 23 February 2024 virtual visit for ALICE masterclasses, Torino, Pavia, Italy
- Friday 23 February 2024 virtual visit for ALICE masterclasses, Trieste, Italy
- International Masterclasses 2024:
Friday 23 February 2024 ALICE masterclasses held by Trieste, Heidelberg, Pavia, Prague CTU, Cagliari and Torino
- 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!