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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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- ALICE 3 Days: 24-26 June 2024, 222/R-001 (CERN)
- ICHEP 2024 rehearsals (1-5 July, 15 July)
- ALICE Week: 8-12 July 2024
- ALICE Upgrade Week, 7-11 October 2024 at IFJ PAN, Krakow: Registration open!
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Official News regarding the CERN Safety Rules
- Work Well Feel Well Campaign: relieving daily stress
- 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 ....
- LHC tunnel named as one of the 50 most iconic tunnels in the world
- CERN70 Feature Series:
- CERN70: A gargantuan discovery (13 June 2024)
- 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
- 21 August (during Hard Probes previews)
- 2 October (extra-ordinary)
- 6 November (mini-week)
- 4 December (during physics week)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- QCD Seminars, Monday 24 Jun 2024, 14:00: "Partonic 3D distributions factorization, extractions and moments" by Ignazio Scimemi (Universidad Complutense (ES))
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 25 Jun 2024, 11:00: "Study of entanglement in space-like and time-like separated top quark pairs at CMS" by Giulia Negro (Purdue University (US))
- CERN Lattice Coffee, Tuesday 25 Jun 2024, 16:00: "Multilevel algorithms for glueball calculations" by Lorenzo Barca (DESY Zeuthen)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 26 Jun 2024, 14:00: "talk by Lisa Randall" by Lisa Randall (Harvard)
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 27 Jun 2024, 11:00: "Light-by-light scattering" by Jeremi Niedziela (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Mateusz Dyndal (AGH University of Krakow)
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 27 Jun 2024, 13:30: "Crossroads between Theory and Phenomenology"
- BE Seminars, Friday 28 Jun 2024, 16:15: "AccGPT: A Chatbot for CERN Internal Knowledge" by Dr Florian Rehm (CERN)
- Physics with high-luminosity proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC - Workshop, 4-5 Jun 2024, CERN
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:
- Partial SL Block: 24 June to 27 June
- QC Block: 4 July to 9 July
- ECS Block: 20 July to 25 July
Shifts booking via SAMS.
- ALICE Run Manager (24 Jun - 7 Jul): Adam Wegrzynek
Adam is a Software Engineer working in the CERN ALICE team for more than 10 years. He has contributed to O2 system design by simulating data transfers to optimize memory, network, and inter-CPU link usage. In addition, he has studied the high-throughput networking effect. Adam initiated the transition towards web-based GUIs that are currently heavily used in the ARC: QC, InfoLogger, ECS, and Bookkeeping. He also designed and implemented monitoring pipelines to provide the data-taking status in Grafana dashboards. Recently, he has been focussing on improving DevOps concepts in the FLP team such as Continuous Testing and Deployment. He is one of the FLP experts and has been a part of the RP expert team for several years.
Adam’s mandate will be fully devoted to proton-proton physics production at 500 kHz, where the focus will be on high data-taking efficiency and optimal data quality. - LHC and P2 news:
- LHC:
The LHC completed the first Technical Stop (TS1) of the year and resumed beam operations last Friday. The LHC restart has been affected by several issues, although none was particularly severe and all were promptly fixed. Moreover, several issues also affected the injectors, the outstanding one being the need to replace one main dipole magnet in the SPS due to a vacuum leak. The replacement work started on Monday June 17 at 8AM, and was completed the next day in the early afternoon. The LHC re-commissioning then resumed and completed on Wednesday afternoon, immediately followed by a short intensity ramp-up to validate the machine after the Technical Stop. In the early morning today, the physics production at full machine successfully resumed. - P2 operations:
ALICE successfully restarted all equipment after the Technical Stop and remained in a super-safe state during the post-TS1 machine commissioning. On Friday the polarity of the solenoid and dipole magnets were also switched from negative to positive. Physics data-taking operations resumed during the intensity ramp-up, where important calibration data were collected for ITS and TPC, at increasing interaction rates ranging from 1 kHz up to 4 MHz. All calibrations were completed before resuming proton-proton physics production with the first fill at the full machine of this morning.
- LHC:
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- QCD Master class 2024 school, Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer, France, 24 June - 5 July
- III Joint ICTP-SAIFR/ICTP-Trieste Summer School on Particle Physics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 24 June - 5 July
- MidSummer School in QCD, Saariselka, Finland, 24 June - 6 July
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- BOOST 2024, Genova,Italy, 29 July - 2 August, 1 JE abstract submitted. Contact PWGJE Conveners and CC if interested.
- Corfu 2024 Workshop on the Standard Model and Beyond, 25 August - 5 September, Corfu, abstract deadline 30 June, opportunities to submit abstracts for 15+5min talks, contact Conveners
- ICNFP 2024 — International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics 2024, Kolymbary, Crete, 26 Aug - 5 Sep, abstract deadline 20 June.
- invitation for 1 or 2 highlights talks from ALICE, talk on Upgrades, Review talks, contact Conveners
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- Invitation for 3 ALICE talks + 1 FOCAL talk, contact CC chairs
- 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 July.
- Jet Modification and Hard-Soft Correlations, Tokyo, Japan, 28-29 September, abstract deadline 1 July
- LHC days at Split (Croatia) 30 September - 4 October, abstract deadline 1 July. Opportunity for ALICE overwiev talks, contact CC.
- 8th International Conference on Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors, MPGD2024, Hefei, China, 14-18 Oct, abstract deadline 24 June.
- The Eleventh International Workshop on Semiconductor Pixel Detectors for Particles and Imaging (Pixel2024), Strasbourg, France, 18-22 November, abstract deadline 5 July
- International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD) 2024), Malargüe, Argentina, 23-27 September. Abstract deadline 15 July. Invitation for 3-4 ALICE talks (13+2min), for MPI and collectivity in small and large systems and jets; Strangeness ehnancement with multiplicity in pp with angular correlations; Long-range angular correlation in low-multiplicity pp collisions —> contact PWG and CC.
- The 2024 international workshop on the high energy Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), Hangzhou, China, 23–27 Oct, abstract deadline 31 July.
SCHOOLS
- 52nd SLAC Summer Institute School, The Art of Precision: Calculations & Measurements, Standford, US, 5-16 August, registration deadline 6 July
- XXXV International School “Francesco Romano” on Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics, Monopoli (Bari), Italy, 6-13 October, registration deadline 31 July
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):
- Junior representative in the Service Work board: Rebecca Cerri, who is in her first year of PhD in the Torino group, will take over from Nicola Rubini as junior representative in the Service Work board on 1 July 2024.
We are very thankful to Nicola for all the work he did in the past three years and we warmly welcome Rebecca and wish her the best of luck for the upcoming adventure!
- 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:
- Saturday 15 June 2024
- Zespol Szkol Samorzadowych Nr 1 Opoczno, Poland
- 1st Junior High-School of Nea Moudania, Greece
- Students from USA
- ALICE member’s friends, Switzerland
- Tuesday 18 June 2024
- Technical students, Germany
- Merck Tech et Inno, Switzerland
- V Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace, Poland
- colleague’s friends, Austria
- Wednesday 19 June 2024
- Truro and Penwith College, UK
- Thursday 20 June 2024
- colleagues’ friends and family, Spain
- Friday 21 June 2024
- Lambert High School, UK; stagiaires, France
- professional visitor, Italy
- Saturday 15 June 2024
- The ALICE Collaboration 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.