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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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- SQM/LHCP 2024 rehearsals: 21-31 May 2024
- ALICE Mini Week: 17-21 June 2024
- ALICE 3 Days: 24-26 June 2024, Registration deadline: 12 June 2024: The "ALICE 3" Days are devoted to a general overview of the ALICE 3 detector design and scoping, and to updates on the plans and R&D for all its subsystems.
- 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!
- CERN 70 - The case of the (still) mysterious Universe, Public event on 6 June 2024, 19:30 hrs at CERN Science Gateway
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Editorial board membership (dealine: 1 June 2024): EB members are in charge of reviewing papers, technical publications, and conference proceedings, as well as participating in the EB meetings. By the end of this year, we will have to replace two EB members. On this occasion, we would like to call for people with expertise in PWG-DQ, PWG-JE, and PWG-UD, as well as other areas of expertise. If you're interested in joining the EB, please do not hesitate to contact the EB Chairs before 1 June 2024. Please do not hesitate to contact the EB Chairs if you need further information.
- Conference Committee Membership (dealine: 1 June 2024): 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.
- Starting in June, CERN Shuttles will no longer enter the Point 2 site: Instead, they will wait for passengers outside, at the gate. Shuttle service users are requested to wait for their transport outside.
- The CERN Alumni Network turns seven
- Accelerator Report: Exploring potential performance increases
- Official News regarding the CERN Safety Rules
- Work Well Feel Well Campaign: relieving daily stress
- New charging station at CERN for private electric vehicles
- Shy charm mesons confound predictions: Report in CERN Courier (May-Jun 2024). Read More ....
- New subdetectors to extend ALICE’s reach: Report in CERN Courier (May-Jun 2024). Read More ....
- CERN70 Feature Series:
- CERN70: The world’s first hadron collider (29 May 2024)
- CERN70: An electronic revolution (16 May 2024)
- CERN70: The nucleus as a laboratory
- CERN70: Tracing particles
- CERN70: The dark side of the muon
- CERN70: The heart of CERN’s accelerator chain
- CERN70: A first discovery
- CERN70: The Laboratory takes shape
- CERN70: Foundations for European science
- 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
- KT Seminars, Friday 31 May 2024, 13:30: "Global Health: Enhancing Access to Cancer Radiation Therapy" by Manjit Dosanjh (University of Oxford (GB)), Taofeeq Abdallah Ige (University of Abuja, NIGERIA)
- Strings2024 Conference: 3-7 June 2024 at CERN
- QTI Seminars, Monday 3 Jun 2024, 16:00: "Active Photonics: Revolutionizing Random Number Generation with Sequre Quantum" by Dr Marcin Pawlowski, Dr Paulina Assmann
- QCD Seminar, Monday 3 Jun 2024, 14:00: "Factorization and Resummation for Sequential Recombination Jet Cross Section" by Jürg Andreas Haag
- Open Session of the Detector R&D Committee (DRDC), 3 Jun 2024, 16:00
- CERN Lattice Coffee, Tuesday 4 Jun 2024, 16:00: "Bayesian formulation of Backus-Gilbert methods" by Alessandro Lupo (CPT Marseille)
- NuSTEC 2024 summer school, 5–13 Jun 2024, CERN
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 6 Jun 2024, 13:30: "Non-Invertible Peccei-Quinn Symmetry and the Massless Quark Solution to the Strong CP Problem" by Seth Koren (University of Notre Dame)
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: 22 June to 27 June
- SL Block: 4 July to 9 July
Shifts booking via SAMS.
- ALICE Run Manager (27 May - 9 Jun): Sanchari Thakur
Sanchari is a post-doc at the Bose Institute, Kolkata, India. She is mostly active in physics data analysis. In particular, during her PhD at the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC, Homi Bhabha National Institute), she investigated two-particle correlations in PbPb collisions. She has studied the nearside jet-like yield with pion and proton-triggered correlation in the intermediate pT range to see the effect of the quark coalescence and radial flow in the particle ratio in heavy ion physics. In Run 2 she was already involved in operations at Point 2 by taking PMD on-call and DQM shifts. This year she has taken central shifts for all the roles (QC, DCS, ECS, and Shift Leader) over the past three months, and she is now fully trained and qualified to start her first Run Manager mandate.
During her mandate, Sanchari will supervise the production of proton-proton physics at 500 kHz, focusing on efficient data taking and the best possible data quality. The second week will be partly devoted to the second LHC machine development period when we will have the opportunity to focus on software deployment and dedicated system tests.
- LHC and P2 news:
- LHC:
During the past week, the LHC has focused on proton-proton physics production, spending a bit more than 50% of the time in Stable Beams. The machine experienced two long interruptions, one due to a quench in sector 23 during the past weekend, and the second on Monday due to a communication issue with the cryogenics system in sector 12. Moreover, the SPS started an intervention yesterday to replace one dipole magnet. The intervention is expected to be completed today at noon. The LHC was able to bridge most of the SPS downtime with a 22-hour-long fill, that was dumped this morning to allow a short access to the machine and experiments.
LHC successfully completed the Van der Meer scan program for all experiments. Proton-proton physics production will resume this afternoon and will continue until the start of MD2 on 5 June.
- P2 operations:
ALICE has smoothly and successfully collected proton-proton physics data at 500 kHz interaction rate over the past week, with an average efficiency above 90%. The total delivered luminosity for physics runs is now exceeding 11 pb-1.
- LHC:
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- SQM 2024, Strasbourg France, 3-7 June
- LHCP 2024, Boston, USA, 3-7 June
- 15th International Conference on Beauty, Charm, Hyperons in Hadronic Interactions (BEACH 2024), Charleston, USA, 3-7 June
- Summer School "From Hadronic Structure to Heavy-Ion Collisions", Orsay, France, 9-15 June
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Physics with high-luminosity proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC - Workshop, CERN, 4-5 July, abstract deadline 31 May
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- 27th High-Energy Physics International Conference in Quantum Chromodynamis (QCD24), Montpellier, France, 8-12 Jul 2024, abstract deadline 31 May
- Synergies between LHC and EIC for quarkonium physics, ECT* Trento, Italy, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 14 June
- 8th International Conference on Chirality, Vorticity, and Magnetic Field in Quantum Matter, Timișoara, Romania, 22-26 July, abstract deadline 31 May
- ICNFP 2024 — International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics 2024, Kolymbary, Crete, 26 Aug - 5 Sep, abstract deadline 20 June
- New Trends in High-Energy and Low-x Physics: New Trends in HEP, Sfantu Gheorge, Romania, 2 September, abstract deadline 16 June. Invitation for 3 ALICE talks + 1 FOCAL talk, contact CC chairs
- 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
- 8th International Conference on Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors, MPGD2024, Hefei, China, 14-18 Oct, abstract deadline 24 June.
- The 2024 international workshop on the high energy Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), Hangzhou, China, 23–27 Oct, abstract deadline 31 Jul 2024.
SCHOOLS
- Summer School "From Hadronic Structure to Heavy-Ion Collisions", Orsay, France, 9-15 June, registration deadline 31 Apr 2024
- 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
- Argusa Data School course, organised and led by two CERN Alumni working at Argusa, 19 September 2024, Registration deadline: 26 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:
- Monday 27 May 2024
- Colleague’s family, Germany
- Wednesday 29 May 2024
- XIV Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace, Poland
- Rotary exchange students, France
- Colleague’s family, Poland
- Thursday 30 May 2024
- Colleague’s family, Poland
- Scientific programme for members of Korean Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy
- Friday 31 May 2024
- Vasaskolan Gavle, Sweden; Scientific programme for Korean research foundation members; colleague’s friends, UK
- Monday 27 May 2024
- The ALICE Collaboration at CERN is on LinkedIn! Join us.
DIVERSITY
- CERN Staff Association launches a new Working Group to drive diversity, equity and inclusion
- 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 the Job Announcements link for details.