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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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Friday 5 April 2024 at 3:30 PM: Expecting the first collisions in stable beams at 6.8 TeV in next hours. This will mark the beginning of the intensity ramp-up at top energy. |
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 9 Apr 2024, 11:00, CERN Main Auditorium: "Probing pQCD calculations with charm-hadron production measurements with the ALICE experiment at the LHC" by Mattia Faggin (CERN).
- ALICE Mini Week: 8-12 April 2024
- ALICE Physics Forum: 10 April 2024 (CERN 160/1-009): We currently foresee the first two paper proposals from Run 3 (PWG-LF&MM as well as PWG-UD) and an update from the DPG on the data quality of the latest reconstruction. In addition, there will 6 paper proposals and one public note proposal from Run 2.
- Call for the ALICE Thesis Award 2023-2024 (deadline: 5 April 2024) (TODAY)
- Training session for guides for the ALICE exhibition (surface), Tuesday 9 April, 9:00 at Point 2. If you are interested please send a mail to Despina Hatzifotiadou and come along.
- Next ALICE 3 Days: 24-26 June 2024
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Balancing matter and antimatter in Pb–Pb collisions: CERN Courier Energy Frontier March - April 2024
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- Brazil becomes Associate Member State of CERN
- 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 the analysis of ALICE Run 3 data. This is especially beneficial for those who are new to the Run 3 data analysis.
- CERN70 Event: The Virtuous Circle of Knowledge and Innovation, 18 April 19:30 hrs
- CERN70 Feature Series:
- CERN LHCC and Research Board approve FoCal and ITS 3 projects:
- Next Physics Forum Dates for 2024
- 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
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 9 Apr 2024, 14:00: "AdS three-body problem at large spin" by Petr Kravchuk
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 9 Apr 2024, 16:00: "PACBit: The Third Generation Digital TDPAC Spectrometer" by Ian Yap Chang Jie
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 10 Apr 2024, 14:00: "Exploring the infrared structure of massless gauge theories" by Lorenzo Magnea
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 11 Apr 2024, 11:00: "The electroweak SUSY landscape" by Ben Hodkinson (University of Oxford (GB)), Emanuele Angelo Bagnaschi (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 11 Apr 2024, 13:30: "Small instanton-induced flavour invariants" by Guilherme Guedes (DESY)
- BE Seminars, Friday 12 Apr 2024, 16:00: "Center-of-mass energy calibration, polarization and monochromatization of the electron-positron Future Circular Collider" by Jacqueline Keintzel (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 opportunities:
- SL partial block from Saturday April 7 to Wednesday April 10
- DSC blocks from April 21 to May 8
- ECS block from May 9 to May 14
Shifts booking via SAMS.
- Extension of the 2024 proton-proton run by 4 weeks:
The CERN directorate has recently approved an extension of the 2024 proton proton run by 4 weeks, with a corresponding shortening of the 2025 proton-proton run by 4 weeks as well. The overall beam allocation for 2024+2025 will remain the same for both proton-proton and heavy-ions collisions. As a consequence of the extension, the 2024 heavy-ion run will be shifted by 4 weeks. The number of heavy-ions days will remain unchanged with respect to the original schedule. - The new shift schedule, with the additional proton-proton shift blocks as well as the shifted heavy-ion period, will be opened to the whole collaboration on Wednesday 17 April at 13:00 CET.
- ALICE Run Manager (1-14 April 2024): Maciej Marek CZARNYNOGA
- LHC and P2 news:
- LHC commissioning: The LHC commissioning is reaching the final stages. A second fill with stable beams at injection energy was provided on 1 April. In parallel the machine has finalised all the commissioning steps required to declare the first collisions in stable beams at 6.8 TeV, which are expected today afternoon. This will mark the beginning of the intensity ramp-up at top energy.
- P2 operations: on 1 April, ALICE collected more collisions at 450 GeV, with all detectors successfully participating into the data taking. During the rest of the LHC commissioning activities the experiment remains in a safe state, and the central acquisition is constantly monitored by replaying MonteCarlo-generated data as well as real data from 2023. The experiment is ready for the start of the LHC intensity ramp-up, during which ALICE will carry out a challenging and crucial program of detector calibrations and interaction rates scans.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 31st International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2024), Grenoble, France, 8-12 April
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- QNP 2024 — The 10th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics, Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 8 April, deadline extented, room for abstracts in Heavy Ion session
- 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 30 April.
- 22nd International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2024), Puerto Vallarta Mexico, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 15 April.
- 7th Workshop on Python in High Energy Physics (PyHEP2024), CERN, Online conference, 1-4 July, abstract deadline 17 May
- Exotic Hadron Spectroscopy 2024, Swansea, UK, 2-4 July, abstract deadline 30 April
- CAARI-SNEAP conference, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 21-26 July, abstract deadline 2 May, Invitation for 1 abstract in parallel session "Latest progress in high energy nuclear physics and the future Electron-Ion Collider opportunity."
- 16th Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum (Confinement XVI), Cairns, Autralia, 19-24 August, abstract deadline 30 April, Invitation for 1 overview talk in parallel session «Overview of HI physics » + possibility of contributed talks
- 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.
- FAIR next generation scientistis (FAIRNESS 2024) - Croatia, Seget Donji, 23-28 September, abstract deadline 1 May
- 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 CERN School of Computing, CERN, 15–18 Apr 2024, registration deadline: 12 April
- 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
- 2024 CTEQ Summer School on QCD and Electroweak Phenomenology, Munster, Germany, 21-31 August, registration deadline 30 April
- 2024 European School of High-Energy Physics (ESHEP2024), Peebles, UK, 25 September - 8 October, registration deadline 26 April
- 52nd SLAC Summer Institute (SSI2024), SLAC, USA, 5-16 August-2024
- Swiss Summer Student Particle Physics Program, Zurich, July-September 2024, application deadline: 1 May.
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):
- LHC Job Matching Event (JMEv), 14 May 2024: Organized by the LHC Early Career Scientist Fora (LHC ECSF), the event aims to bring early career researchers and recruiters together to discuss open academic job positions on a LHC experiment. Furthermore, the event will include motivational talks from two academic and one non-academic speakers. The event registration for recruiters is open. For job seekers, the registrations will be opened in mid-April.
- If you are an early career researcher, looking for a position in HEP at a LHC experiment, you can register from mid-April using the Job Seeker's Registration Form.
- If you are a senior member of an LHC experiment, offering a position, and looking for candidates, you can register now using the Recruiters' Registration Form.
- ALICE Run 3 Analysis Resources: this new website which has a collection of all resources and news that can be helpful for people engaged in the analysis of ALICE Run 3 data. This is especially beneficial for those who are new to the Run 3 data analysis.
- 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 30 March 2024
- ALICE members’ friends, Poland, Greece, Czech Republic
- Tuesday 2 April 2024
- Externato Nossa Senhora do Rosario, Portugal
- Zanneio Model High School of Piraeus, Greece
- visitors from Australia and Denmark
- Wednesday 3 April 2024
- 3rd High School of Stavroupoli, Greece
- Wood Green School, UK
- Thursday 4 April 2024
- 7th Lyceum of Kalamaria, Greece
- UPM Bachelor Students, Spain
- Friday 5 April 2024
- Lycée Jean Paul Sartre, France
- Saturday 30 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
- 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!