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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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21 Mar 2024: STABLE BEAM FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2024:
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- 1st "ALICE 3" Days: 25-27 Mar 2024 at CERN: 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.
- Call for the ALICE Thesis Award 2023-2024 (deadline: 5 April 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.
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 9 Apr 2024, 11:00: "Probing pQCD calculations with charm-hadron production measurements with the ALICE experiment at the LHC" by Mattia Faggin (CERN). Rehearsal on 27 March!
- Blood donation campaign on Tuesday 26 March from 8:30 to 16:30, CERN Building 29
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Recent PhDs in ALICE. Congratulations to our new Doctor:
- Dr Tulika Tripathy
Thesis title: Event-by-event fluctuations of mean transverse momentum, ⟨pT⟩, in pp, Xe-Xe and Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC
CDS: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2890969?ln=en
Exam date: 29 February 2024, IIT Bombay
Supervisor: Sadhana Das
Service work: n-dimensional analysis pipeline with Data Processing Group
- Dr Tulika Tripathy
- ALICE Run 3 Analysis Resources: Our Junior colleagues have developed this new website which has a collection of all resources and news that can be helpful for people engaged in analysis of ALICE Run 3 data. This is especially beneficial for those who are new to the Run 3 data analysis.
- Call for nominations for two plenary talks at ICHEP 2024:
The ALICE collaboration has been invited to give 2 plenary talks at the next ICHEP 2024 Conference to be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from 18 to 24 July: (1) ALICE Highlights: 15+5 mins, (2) Experimental highlights from heavy-ion physics (multi-experiment talk): 20+5 mins. Please send your proposals to Alice-cc-chairs@cern.ch ONLY, by 29 March.
- CERN70: The dark side of the muon
- CERN70 public event: The virtuous circle of knowledge and innovation, Thursday 18 Apr 2024
- CERN LHCC and Research Board approve FoCal and ITS 3 projects: Congratulations!
- Technical Design Report of the ALICE Forward Calorimeter (FoCal)
- Technical Design report for the ALICE Inner Tracking System 3 - ITS3 ; A bent wafer-scale monolithic pixel detector
- 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.
- CERN Alumni event: Moving Out of Academia to Machine Learning: 26 April 2024 14:30 - 16:30 CEST
- Next Physics Forum Dates for 2024
- 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 Seminars, Monday 18 Mar 2024, 14:00: "Nested soft-collinear subtraction reinvented" by by Federica Devoto
- Physics Beyond Colliders Annual Workshop: 25-27 Mar 2024, CERN
- 2024 CERN openlab Technical Workshop: 26-27 Mar 2024, CERN
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 26 Mar 2024, 11:00: "New charm physics results from LHCb"
- TH String Theory Seminar, Wednesday 27 Mar 2024, 10:00: "Islands Far Outside the Horizon" by Raphael Bousso (UC, Berkeley)
- Theory Colloquia, Thursday 28 Mar 2024, 11:00: "A Two-Way Communication Between High-Energy Physics and Quantum Technologies" by Enrique Rico Ortega
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 28 Mar 2024, 13:30: "Probing Top-quark Operators with Precision Electroweak Measurements" by Jiayin Gu (IHEP, CAS)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 3 Apr 2024, 14:00: "Jetography via the Quark-Gluon Plasma" by Liliana Apolinario (LIP (PT))
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
| Title | Internal | Submission date |
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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
- Shift booking opportunities
- DSC blocks from April 21 to April 30
- ECS block from May 9 to May 14
- SL block from 26 March to April 8
Please book via SAMS.
- ALICE Run Manager (18 - 31 March 2024): Krystian Roslon
- LHC and P2 News:
- LHC commissioning:
- The LHC commissioning is well on track, with a beam availability over the past week of the order of 90%. First collisions (not in stable beams) have been established on 19 March, both at 6.8 TeV and at the injection energy.
- Stable beams at 450 GeV have been provided on 21 March, for the first time in 2024.
- More stable collisions at the injection energy are expected in the next days, while the machine continues the commissioning toward stable beams at 6.8 TeV, that are scheduled for the second week of April.
- P2 operations:
- The global commissioning of the experiment is reaching its final stage.
- On 21 March, we successfully collected the first collisions at 450 GeV of energy, marking the start of the 2024 run! All detectors participated In the data taking, which proceeded smoothly and efficiently.
- During the LHC commissioning activities the experiment remains nearly off, and the commissioning and validation of the central systems continues by replaying MonteCarlo-generated data as well as real data from 2023. Upgrades of the central systems and of the online processing software are performed on a weekly basis, to finalise the ongoing consolidation work.
- LHC commissioning:
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 58th Recontre de Moriond 2024, QCD & High Energy Interactions, La Thuile, Italy, 31 March - 7 April
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 22 March
- 15th International Conference on Beauty, Charm, Hyperons in Hadronic Interactions (BEACH 2024), Charleston, USA, 3-7 June, abstract deadline 16 April, possibility of plenary talks and poster presentations, contact conveners.
- 14th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons (NSTAR2024), York, UK, 17-21 June, abstract deadline 12 April
- Present and future perspective in hadron physics (STRONG2020), Frascati, Italy, 17-21 June, abstract deadline 15 April
- QCD at Work 2024, Trani, Italy, 18-21 June, abstract deadline 1 April, Invitation for 1 extended talk ALICE only or multi-exp and possibility for contributed talks & poster: Contact cc chairs (extended talk) and conveners for the contributed talks
- 22nd International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2024), Puerto Vallarta Mexico, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 1 April.
- XVIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 19–24 Aug 2024,
abstract deadline 29 April
- EXA/LEAP 2024* International Conference on Exotic Atoms and Related Topics and Conference on Low Energy Antiprotons, Vienna, Austria, 26-30 August, abstract deadline 14 April.
- XVII international Conference on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors (RPC2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 9-13 Sep 2024, abstract deadline 1 June.
- TWEPP 2024 Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 30 Sep to 4 Oct 2024, abstract deadline 30 April
- 8th International Conference on Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors, MPGD2024, Hefei, China, 14-18 Oct, abstract deadline 24 June.
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 30 April
- MCnet Summer School, 10–14 Jun 2024, CERN, registration deadline: 15 April
- III Joint ICTP-SAIFR/ICTP-Trieste Summer School on Particle Physics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 24 June, registration deadline 20 April
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):
- ALICE Theses website
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis.
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE Visits this week:
- Saturday 16 March 2024
- Mill Hill County High School, UK
- Pinoys, Philippines
- Monday 18 March 2024
- High School of Permanent Mission of Russian Federation to UN, Russia
- ALICE member’s friends, South Korea
- Thursday 21 March 2024
- 5th High School of Glyfada, Greece
- Friday 22 March 2024
- Test Valley School, UK
- Saturday 16 March 2024
- ALICE virtual visits this week:
- Friday 15 March 2024
- Virtual visit to ALICE for Particle Therapy masterclasses in Montenegro
- Friday 15 March 2024
- International Masterclasses 2024:
- Wednesday 20 March 2024
- ALICE masterclasses were held in Salerno, Puebla, Sao Paulo, Vienna and Lyon
- Thursday 21 March 2024
- ALICE masterclasses were held in Darmstadt, Münster, Frankfurt and Jyväskylä
- Wednesday 20 March 2024
- 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
- 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.
- 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!