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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- SQM/LHCP 2024 rehearsals: 21-31 May 2024: Note that there are 3 different zoom rooms: 1 for plenaries, 2 for the parallel sessions!
- CERN: An extraordinary human endeavor, 19 May 2024, CERN Science Gateway
- ALICE Mini Week: 17-21 June 2024
- ALICE 3 Days: 24-26 June 2024
- ALICE Week: 8-12 July 2024
- ALICE Upgrade Week, 7-11 October 2024 at IFJ PAN, Krakow: The programme will mostly focus on ALICE 3 and it will include sessions on FoCal and ITS3 as well. Looking forward to a broad participation in Krakow!
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Monday, 20 May: CERN Holiday (Whit Monday)
- Conference Committee Membership: If you are interested in joining the Conference Committee for a mandate from December 2024 to November 2026, with PWG-CF expertise, contact CC chairs before 1 June 2024.
- Shy charm mesons confound predictions: Report in CERN Courier (May-Jun 2024)
ALICE, for the first time, has measured the interaction of open-charm mesons (D+ and D*+) with charged pions and kaons for all the charge combinations. Read More ....
- New subdetectors to extend ALICE’s reach: Report in CERN Courier (May-Jun 2024). Read More ....
- Accelerator Report: Already a fifth of the way there
- 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 new to the Run 3 data analysis.
- CERN70 Feature Series:
- Next Physics Forum Dates for 2024
- 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 21 May 2024, 14:00: "An entanglement asymmetry study of black hole radiation" by Sara Murciano
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 21 May 2024, 16:00: "PACBit (and MULTIPAC)" by Ian Yap Chang Jie
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 22 May 2024, 11:30: "Bubble wall velocity in cosmological phase transitions: electroweak baryogenesis and gravitational waves" by Dr Marek Lewicki (University of Warsaw)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 22 May 2024, 14:00
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 23 May 2024, 13:30: "Compact Objects" by Loris Del Grosso (La Sapienza University of Rome)
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
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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:
- SL block: CRITICAL !!! 21-26 May (next week)
- SL Block: 26 June to 1 July
Shifts booking via SAMS.
- ALICE Run Manager (13 - 26 May): Minjung Kim
Minjung is a Postdoc at Berkeley National Laboratory. She is most active in physics data analysis, specializing in the J/Psi analysis and Ultra Peripheral Collisions (UPC). During her Master's thesis, she participated in the ITS2 mass production campaign, while during her PhD at Heidelberg University, she joined the TRD project. In particular, during Long Shutdown 2 she was involved in the repair and re-commissioning work of the TRD. Afterward, she kept an active involvement in the project as one of the TRD experts, especially taking responsibility for the TRD high-voltage, and covering several TRD on-call shifts. She is also a very experienced shift leader.
During the first week Minjung will coordinate the preparation and data taking for the proton-proton Van der Meer scans at top energy, during which ALICE will also collect low-rate proton-proton collisions with the ZDC. In the second week, Minjung will supervise the proton-proton physics data production at 500 kHz.
- LHC and P2 news:
- LHC:
During the past days, the LHC has completed the first block of Machine Developments (MD1), and is currently performing the proton-proton Van der Meer scans at top energy for all the experiments. Before the start of MD1 on Monday the LHC provided stable beams at full machine, with an average time in stable beams larger than 50%. The machine experienced a large quench in sector 2-3 last Friday, which required a long recovery of about 28 hours, but did not result in any significant damage to the equipments. - P2 operations:
ALICE has collected data for proton-proton physics production at 500 kHz until the start of MD1. During the machine development ALICE took synthetic and technical runs and performed the regular upgrade of the central systems. During the ongoing Van der Meer scans of ATLAS and CMS we are collecting low interaction rate physics data, including also the ZDC detector thanks to the characteristics of the VdM optics. The VdM scan for ALICE is expected to take place between Friday evening and Saturday 1 at noon.
- LHC:
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Corfu Workshop on Future Accelerators CORFU2024, Corfu, Greece, 19-26 May
- 20th International Conference on Calorimetry in Particle Physics (CALOR2024), Tsukuba, Japon, 19-24 May
- CPOD 2024 workshop, Berkeley, USA, 20-24 May
- 16th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors : Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics, La Bodiola, Italy, 26 May-1 Jun
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, 3-7June, abstract deadline 31 May
- 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 22 May
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- 27th High-Energy Physics International Conference in Quantum Chromodynamis (QCD24), Montpellier, France, 8-12 Jul 2024
- Synergies between LHC and EIC for quarkonium physics, ECT* Trento, Italy, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 14 June
- CAARI-SNEAP conference, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 21-26 July, Invitation for 1 abstract in parallel session in session: Latest progress in high energy nuclear physics and the future Electron-Ion Collider opportunity.
- 8th International Conference on Chirality, Vorticity, and Magnetic Field in Quantum Matter, Timișoara, Romania, 22-26 July, abstract deadline 31 May
- 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.
- 16th Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum (Confinement XVI), Cairns, Australia, 19-24 August, abstract deadline 31 May.
- New Trends in High-Energy and Low-x Physics: New Trends in HEP, Sfantu Gheorge, Romania, 2 September, abstract deadline 31 May
- 12th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (HP2024), Nagasaki, Japan, 22-27 September, abstract deadline 25 May, Central submission except for posters (to be submitted by presenters)
- XVII international Conference on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors (RPC2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 9-13 Sep 2024, abstract deadline 1 June.
- Diffraction and Low-x 2024 conference, Palermo, Italy , 8-14 Sept 2024, abstract deadline 31 May, invitation for 4 parallel talks contact UD and Jet PWG conveneers
- ICNFP 2024 — International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics 2024, Kolymbary, Crete, 26 Aug - 5 Sep, abstract deadline 30 May
- ISNS-24 — International Symposium on Nuclear Science Sofia, Bulgaria, 9-13 September, abstract deadline 15 May
- CHEP2024, Krakov, Poland, 19-25 October, abstract deadline 17 May
- 8th International Conference on Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors, MPGD2024, Hefei, China, 14-18 Oct, abstract deadline 24 June.
SCHOOLS
- Summer School "From Hadronic Structure to Heavy-Ion Collisions", Orsay, France, 9-15 June, registration deadline 31 Apr 2024
- IFJ PAN Particle Physics Summer Student Programme (PPSS) (school, Krakow, Poland, 8 July - 2 August, registration deadline 19 May
- 15th Trans-European School of High Energy Physics, Bezmiechowa Gorna, Poland, 11-20 July, registration deadline 17 May
- 52nd SLAC Summer Institute (SSI2024), SLAC, USA, 5-16 August-2024, registration deadline 6 July
- 15th Thematic CERN School of Computing on Machine Learning, Split, Croatia, 12 October, registration deadline 19 June
- The International School “Francesco Romano” on Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics, Monopoli (Bari), Italy, 6-13 October, registration deadline 31 July 2024
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Special announcement and dates of major conferences in 2024
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Florian, Luca):
- ALICE Run 3 Analysis Resources: this 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 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:
- Tuesday 14 May 2024
- Akademickie Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace PWR, Poland
- STI-RBS professional visitors, Switzerland
- Wednesday 15 May 2024
- 2 groups from St Thomas d’Aquin, Oullins, France
- Thursday 16 May 2024
- Secondary school of Thira, Greece
- Class 4th AUMA DEIN POLY CFTP Geneva, Switzerland
- Friday 17 May 2024
- SPSST Panska Prague, Czech Republc
- Lions Group Sesto Calende Somma Lombardo, Italy
- Prof. Balasubramanian Ananthanarayan, CERN-India Task Force Member
- Tuesday 14 May 2024
- The ALICE Collaboration at CERN is 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 the Job Announcements link for details.