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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- ALICE Mini Week: 17-21 June 2024
- ALICE 3 Days: 24-26 June 2024
- ALICE Week: 8-12 July 2024
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Balancing matter and antimatter in Pb–Pb collisions: CERN Courier Energy Frontier March - April 2024
- 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 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
- 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)
- LHCb Seminar, Tuesday 23 Apr 2024, 11:00: "Exploration with LHCb: from unseen to rare" by Lesya Shchutska (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (CH))
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 23 Apr 2024, 16:00: "Extreme light sources at CERN: Progress on ultra-low-noise laser frequency combs for X-ray and Gamma-ray beam production at the Gamma Factory and CLEAR" by Eduardo Granados (CERN)
- CERN Lattice Coffee, Tuesday 23 Apr 2024, 16:00: "Sneaking up on chiral lattice gauge theories?" by Simon Catterall (Syracuse University)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 24 Apr 2024, 14:00: "QCD thermodynamics from LHC data" by Dr Jean-Yves Ollitrault (CEA Saclay)
- "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.
| Title | Internal | Submission date |
| 11 Apr 2024 |
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| 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:
- We are missing shifters for three CRITICAL DCS blocks from April 21 to May 8
During those blocks we expect to have stable beams for proton-proton physics production, it is therefore essential to cover all shifts in order to guarantee smooth operations
Shifts booking via SAMS.
- We are missing shifters for three CRITICAL DCS blocks from April 21 to May 8
- The new shift schedule, with the additional proton-proton shift blocks as well as the shifted heavy-ion period, is now open for booking to the whole collaboration
- 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. - ALICE Run Manager (15-21 April 2024): Livia TERLIZZI
- LHC and P2 news:
- LHC intensity ramp-up:
The LHC is finalizing the intensity ramp-up. During the past week the number of bunches circulating in the ring has steadily increased, and the machine is currently filled with 1800 bunches per beam. The machine availability was also very good during the past seven days, with 56% of the time spent in stable beams. - P2 operations:
During the LHC ramp-up phase, ALICE has carried out an intense program of detector calibrations and special runs, which is now completed. In particular, we collected reference data for the characterisation of the TPC charge distortions, with interaction rates spanning from 10 kHz up to 2 MHz.
In addition to the calibration runs, we recorded physics data at a pile-up of ~0.05 with all detectors. The data taking operations are proceeding very smoothly, with an efficiency that is systematically exceeding 90%
- LHC intensity ramp-up:
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- New Physics Directions in the LHC era and beyond, Heidelberg, Germany, 22-26 April
- 24th IEEE Real Time Conference (RT2024), Quy Nhon, Vietnam, 22-26 April
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 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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- 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 in 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, Australia, 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
- BOOST2024, Genova,Italy, 29 Jul - 2 Aug. Abstract submission 19 May, Invitation to submit up to five talks and two posters. Please contact CC chairs.
- Heavy Ion Physics in the EIC Era, Institute of Nuclear Theory in Seattle , US, 29 July - 23 August, Invitation for 1 or 2 speakers: ALICE perspective of the heavy ion physics and vision for the future of the field (contact CC chairs)
- ISNS-24 — International Symposium on Nuclear Science, Sofia, Bulgaria, 9-13 September, abstract deadline 15 May
- 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.
- 27th High-Energy Physics International Conference in Quantum Chromodynamis (QCD24), Montpellier, France, 8-12 Jul 2024
- Sustainable HEP 2024 — 3rd Edition, 10–12 Jun 2024, abstract deadline 3- April
SCHOOLS
- Summer School "From Hadronic Structure to Heavy-Ion Collisions", Orsay, France, 9-15 June, registration deadline 30 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.
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Special announcement and dates of major conferences in 2024:
We would like to congratulate the selected speakers for the two plenary talks at ICHEP2024: Nicolo’ Jacazio for “ALICE Highlights”, and Kai Schweda for “Experimental highlights from heavy-ion physics”.
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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 13 April 2024
- Demenika High School, Greece
- ALICE member’s friends, Italy
- Monday 15 April 2024
- ALICE member’s friends, Finland
- Wednesday 17 April 2024
- Ovrya Junior High School, Greece
- ALICE member’s friends, Greece
- Zespol Szkol nr 1, Poland
- Thursday 18 April 2024
- 2nd Junior High School of Efkarpia, Greece
- Friday 19 April 2024
- Korean Mission, South Korea
- High School Avgoulea Linardatos, Greece
- Saturday 13 April 2024
- ALICE virtual visits
Saturday 13 April and Sunday 14 April : virtual visit to ALICE for Greek High School Teachers
- 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!