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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- International Women’s Day 2024 (Friday 8 March 2024): ALICE celebrates International Women’s Day 2024 by highlighting the key role women play in helping achieve our science goals.
Look up @aliceexperiment on Social Media to view reels from some of our junior and senior members as they speak about thier role in the collaboration and the ways in which they contribute to making ALICE a successful experiment. Look up @aliceexperiment on Social Media!
- 1st "ALICE 3" Days: 25-27 Mar 2024 at CERN: “Please register by 12 March”
The "ALICE 3" Days are devoted to a general overview of the ALICE 3 detector design and scoping, updates on the plans and R&D for all its subsystems. Registration for attendance in person and dinner is required, deadline on March 12, 2024.
- ALICE Physics Forum: 13 March 2024
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- CERN LHCC and Research Board approve FoCal and ITS 3 projects: Congratulations!
- Technical Design Report of the ALICE Forward Calorimeter (FoCal)
 LHCC and Research Board approve FoCal and ITS 3 projects |
- Call for the ALICE Thesis Award 2023-2024: All collaborators who will have defended their doctoral thesis, written in English, between 1 April 2023, and 31 March 2024, are invited to consider applying. In case the candidate is not an ALICE member anymore, the supervisor can submit the application on her/his behalf.
The deadline to submit applications is 5 April 2024.
- Endorsements by the Collaboration Board (meeting on 8 March 2024):
- Editorial Board:
- Antonio Ortiz Velasquez - second mandate - from 16 Apr 2024 to 15 Apr 2026
- Cvetan Cheshkov - second mandate - from 27 Mar 2024 to 26 Mar 2026
- Ana Marin - first mandate - from 27 March 2024 to 26 March 2026 (endorsement to be done offline after the meeting)
Thanks to Edith Buthelezi and Thomas Peitzmann for their contributions to the EB
- Conference Committee
- Benjamin Doenigus - first mandate - from 17 March 2024 to 16 March 2026 (endorsement to be done offline after the meeting)
- Yaxian Mao - first mandate - from 01 May 2024 to 30 April 2026 (endorsement to be done offline after the meeting)
Thanks to Evi Ganotti and Peter Jacobs for their contributions to the CC
- PWG-CF
- Oton Vazquez Doce - from 1 Jun 2024 to 31 May 2026
Many thanks to Mesut Arslandok for an excellent job done
- Oton Vazquez Doce - from 1 Jun 2024 to 31 May 2026
- PWG-JE
- Nima Zardoshti - from 1 May 2024 to 30 Apr 2026
Many thanks to Yaxian Mao for an excellent job done
- Nima Zardoshti - from 1 May 2024 to 30 Apr 2026
- Merging of PWG-LF and PWG-MM
- More details on the merging in physics coordination talk during ALICE week.
Many thanks to Chiara Oppedisano for her excellent job in PWG-MM
- More details on the merging in physics coordination talk during ALICE week.
- New Associate Institute members:
- Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology, Malta
- Independent University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Centre for High-Performance Computing, Cape Town, South Africa
- Editorial Board:
- Nuclear Physics Long Range Plan 2024 Town Meeting, Bucharest, 15-17 April, 2024:
The aim 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.
- Accelerator Report: The accelerator complex gears up for action after the yearly winter maintenance break
- CERN70: The heart of CERN’s accelerator chain
- CERN70: A first discovery
- 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
- Detector Seminar, Friday 8 Mar 2024, 11:00: "Fast Machine Learning at the Edge for HEP Experiments" by Sioni Summers (CERN)
- BE Seminars, Friday 8 Mar 2024, 16:00: "Invisible Dimensions Poll: the stuff colleagues don’t see" by Louise Carvalho (CERN)
- QCD Seminars, Monday 11 Mar 2024, 14:00: "Symbol letters of Feynman integrals from Gram determinants" by Xiaofeng Xu
- CS3 2024 - Cloud Storage Synchronization and Sharing: 11-13 March 2024, CERN
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 12 Mar 2024, 11:00: CMS
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 12 Mar 2024, 14:00: "Symmetry breaking of non-invertible global symmetries" by Jeremias Aguilera Damia (Intl. Solvay Inst., Brussels)
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 12 Mar 2024, 16:00
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 13 Mar 2024, 11:30: "A primordial black hole tale" by Francesco Ziparo
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 13 Mar 2024, 14:00: "Modern Neutrino Cosmology" by Miguel Escudero Abenza (CERN)
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 14 Mar 2024, 13:30: "Quark-lepton mass relations from modular flavor symmetry" by Stephen Frederick King (University of Southampton)
- Reva (CERNBox) International Workshop, 14 March 2024, 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 |
| 26 Feb 2024 |
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| 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:
- SL blocks from 26 March to 8 April - Stable Beams expected during the shift blocks
- DCS block from 7 to 12 April - Stable Beams expected during the shift blocks
- ECS blocks from 26 March to 31 March - Stable Beams at injection energy expected
- The booking includes 2 periods:
- ALICE Run Manager (4 - 17 March 2024): Adam Matyja
- LHC and P2 News:
- P2 operations: The global commissioning and validation of central systems is continuing. The shift crew is focusing on the global data taking with COSMICS and SYNTHETIC runs. The goal is to benchmark the system and test several new features, in particular the restarting of runs in the same environment and the implementation of non-critical tasks. The maintenance of detectors has been completed, and the access to the experimental cavern has ended on March 6th morning. During the next days the experiment will be kept in a safe state, compatible with the LHC commissioning activities.
- LHC commissioning: The LHC powering tests and machine checkout is progressing very well. Today the machine will inject the first beams through the transfer lines. If this step is complete successfully, the first beams might be circulating in the machine before the weekend. First stable beams at injection energy are expected around 20 March.
- P2 operations: The global commissioning and validation of central systems is continuing. The shift crew is focusing on the global data taking with COSMICS and SYNTHETIC runs. The goal is to benchmark the system and test several new features, in particular the restarting of runs in the same environment and the implementation of non-critical tasks. The maintenance of detectors has been completed, and the access to the experimental cavern has ended on March 6th morning. During the next days the experiment will be kept in a safe state, compatible with the LHC commissioning activities.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
None
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Joint Meeting of APS Division of Particles & Fields and the Phenomenology Symposium (DPF-Pheno 2024), 13-17 May, abstract deadline 1 April
- 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 and future (ALICE 3): 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 17 March
- 15th International Conference on Beauty, Charm, Hyperons in Hadronic Interactions (BEACH 2024), Charleston, USA, 3-7 June, abstract deadline 16 April
- QCD at Work 2024, Trani, Italy, 18-21 June, abstract deadline 1 April, possibility of several parallel talk
- 22nd International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2024), Puerto Vallarta Mexico, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 1 April, Invitation received for a plenary lecture: contact CC chairs
- QNP 2024 — The 10th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics, Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 15 March
- QCD@LHC 2024, Freiburg, Germany 7-11 Oct, abstract deadline 15 March
- XVIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 19–24 Aug 2024,
abstract deadline 29 April
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
- QCD Master class 2024 school, Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer, France, 23 June - 5 July, registration deadline 15 March
- III Joint ICTP-SAIFR/ICTP-Trieste Summer School on Particle Physics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 24 June, registration deadline 20 April
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
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Special announcement and dates of major conferences in 2024:
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Carolina, Florian, Luca):
- New junior representative: Bianca Sabiu has been elected as junior representative! Bianca is a first year PhD student from the university of Bologna, working on the timing layer for ALICE 3.
- Carolina’s term as Junior Representative ends on 17 March 2024. We thank Carolina for all the amazing work and commitment to the role and wish her all the best for her future endeavours!!!
- ALICE Theses website
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis.
OUTREACH NEWS
- nderground access (and the Underground ALICE visits) has stopped.
- 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 this week:
- Saturday 2 March 2024
- Liceo E. Fermi, Padova, Italy
- ALICE members’ family, friends and colleagues, France, Norway, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland
- Sunday 3 March 2024
- ALICE member’s friends, France
- GANIL/LPC Caen physicists, France
- Monday 4 March 2024
- ALICE member’s friends, Poland
- Tuesday 5 March 2024
- Liceo Ancina, Italy
- Technical University of Munich, Germany
- IMT-Atlantique University, France
- ALICE member’s friends, Switzerland, Spain
- Wednesday 6 March 2024
- 3rd Pilot Lyceum of Komotini, Greece
- Elliniki Paideia, Greece
- Thursday 7 March 2024
- Groupement de gendarmerie départementale de l'Ain, France
- 1st General Lyceum of Kallithea, Greece
- The American School of Paris, France
- Professional visitors, South Africa
- Friday 8 March 2024
- Platon schools, Greece
- Saturday 2 March 2024
- ALICE virtual visits this week:
- Monday 4 March 2024
- Virtual visit to ALICE for Particle Therapy masterclasses in North Macedonia
- Tuesday 5 March 2024
- Virtual visit to ALICE for ALICE online masterclasses in Greece (Thessaloniki, Chania)
- Friday 8 March 2024
- Virtual visit to ALICE for Particle Therapy masterclasses in Lithuania
- Monday 4 March 2024
- International Masterclasses 2024:
- Tuesday 5 March 2024 ALICE masterclasses were held in Cagliari, Italy and Thessaloniki, Chania, Greece (online)
- 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!
DIVERSITY
- Collaborating in Culturally Diverse Teams: 6 March 2024 during ALICE Week
- 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!