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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- New shift schedule will be open on 17 April at 13:00 hrs: 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.
- CERN70 Event: The Virtuous Circle of Knowledge and Innovation, 18 April 19:30 hrs
- ALICE 3 Days: 24-26 June 2024
- ALICE Week: 8-12 July 2024
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
 Peter Higgs (29 may 1929 - 8 April 2024)
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EVENTS OF INTEREST
- BE Seminars, Friday 12 Apr 2024, 16:00, BE Auditorium Meyrin (CERN): "Center-of-mass energy calibration, polarization and monochromatization of the electron-positron Future Circular Collider" by Jacqueline Keintzel (CERN)
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 16 Apr 2024, 11:00, TH Conference Room (CERN): "The charm and beauty of probing CP violation with the CMS detector" by Alberto Bragagnolo (Università e INFN, Padova (IT))
- QCD Seminars, Monday 15 Apr 2024, 14:00, TH Conference Room (CERN): "Semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering at NNLO in QCD" by Giovanni Stagnitto (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 16 Apr 2024, 14:00: "Exploring the higher structure of symmetries" by Michele Del Zotto (Uppsala U.)
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 17 Apr 2024, 11:30: "Primordial black holes from Supercooled First-Order Phase Transition" by Dr Yann Gouttenoire (Tel Aviv U.)
- A&T Seminar, Thursday 18 Apr 2024, 11:00: "The PUMA Experiment: Antiprotons En Route to ISOLDE" by Lukas Nies (CERN / University of Greifswald (DE))
- Detector Seminar, Friday 19 Apr 2024, 11:00: "Summary of the 7th Workshop on Medical Applications of Spectroscopic X-ray detectors" by Prof. Anthony Butler (MARS Bioimaging Ltd and University of Otago)
- KT Seminars, Friday 19 Apr 2024, 11:00: "Latest development on spectroscopic X-ray imaging in medicine: SPECXRAY Workshop Summary" by Anthony Butler (University of Canterbury (NZ))
- Friday 19 Apr 2024, 10:00: "Killing analog phone at CERN" by Rodrigo Sierra (CERN)
- QCD Seminars, Monday 22 Apr 2024, 14:00, TH Conference Room (CERN): "Choose your own talk: Three tales in higher-order calculations" by Arnd Behring (CERN)
- "Moving Out of Academia to Machine Learning", CERN Alumni Events, 26 April 2024 14:30
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
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| 11 Apr 2024 |
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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
- hift booking opportunities:
- DCS blocks from April 21 to May 8
Shifts booking via SAMS.
- DCS blocks from April 21 to May 8
- 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 (15-21 April 2024): Livia TERLIZZI
Livia is a junior member of the collaboration from the Torino group and an expert on Resistive Plate Chambers. She worked on the MID upgrade for RUN3 with new bakelite electrodes and worked on the performances of MID during the first year of data taking. She is one of the ALICE representatives of the eco-gas collaboration of CERN. Since 2023 she is also the MUON System Run Coordinator, and she is in charge of both MID and MCH systems. She has a very large experience in ALICE operations, as she ensured several central shifts as well as three Run Manager blocks in the past years.
Livia will coordinate the last steps of the LHC intensity ramp-up, during which we will collect high-rate data for TPC and TOF calibration, and we will perform the final commissioning of the experiment in preparation for the collisions at 500 kHz with full machine.
- LHC and P2 news:
- LHC intensity ramp-up:
The LHC has entered the intensity ramp-up phase, with the first collisions at 6.8 TeV delivered as early as Friday 5 April. This week the machine has completed the scrubbing run and successfully collided beams with to 400 bunches. The intensity ramp-up will further progress during the weekend, were we expect to reach 800 bunches. - P2 operations:
ALICE is successfully collecting data with all detectors. During the current intensity ramp-up phase the experiment is carrying out an intense program of detector calibrations and special runs, in preparation for the physics production at full machine. During the initial fills at 6.8 TeV we performed the alignment of the muon spectrometer, collected calibration data for ITS, PHOS and TRD, and we completed the initial step of the interaction rate scan for TPC and TOF.
Apart from the special runs, we also collected physics data at a pile-up of ~0.05, with a data-taking efficiency that was systematically above 95%.
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CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Inverted CERN School of Computing 2024, CERN, 15-18 April
- Beam Telescopes and Test Beams Workshop (BTTB12), Edinburgh, Scotland, 15-19 April
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 15th International Conference on Beauty, Charm, Hyperons in Hadronic Interactions (BEACH 2024), Charleston, USA, 3-7 June, abstract deadline 16 April
- 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@Work 2024, Trani, Italy, 18-21 June, abstract deadline 30 April. possibility of few ALICE talks in parallel sessions contact PWG conveneers
- 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
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- 22nd International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2024), Puerto Vallarta Mexico, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 15 April.
- Synergies between LHC and EIC for quarkonium physics, ECT* Trento, Italy, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 14 June
- 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 an overview talk in parallel session Overview of HI physics; Contact CC Chairs
- 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, possibility for few ALICE abstracts in parallel sessions
- 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
- 2024 IEEE NSS MIC RTSD, Miami, Florida, USA, 26 October - 2 November, abstract deadline 7 May
- 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
- 7th MCnet Summer School on Monte-Carlo event generators, 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
- 15th Trans-European School of High Energy Physics, Bezmiechowa Gorna, Poland, 11-20 July, registration deadline 31-Apr-2024
- GRASPA 2024 Summer School in Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Annecy, France, 16-23 July, registration deadline 10 May
- 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, registration deadline 6 July
- 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
- Swiss Summer Student Particle Physics Program, Zurich, July-September 2024, application deadline: 1 May.
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 6 April 2024 5th Junior High School of Stavroupoli, Greece
- Monday 8 April 2024 High School, Türkiye
- Tuesday 9 April 2024 1st High School of Chalandri, Greece; V Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace, Poland
- Wednesday 10 April 2024 Colegio Campo de Flores, Portugal
- Thursday 11 April 2024 St. Paul’s School, UK; XXXVII Lo Warszawa, Poland
- Friday 12 April 2024 2nd High School of Palaio Faliro, Greece; Gimnazija Celje Center, Slovenia; Polhelmskolan, Sweden; Lycée Saint Joseph, France
- The ALICE Collaboration at CERN is now on LinkedIn! Join us.
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!