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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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- ALICE Upgrade Week, 7-11 Oct 2024 at IFJ-PAN, Krakow: deadline for registration: 30 Sep 2024
- Quark Matter 2025 conference (6-12 April 2025), Frankfurt am Main
- The deadline for submission of parallel talks and posters is on 31 October and we
- O2 Analysis Tutorial, 14-18 Oct 2024 at CERN: Please Register!
- ALICE workshop on inclusive teamwork, 1 and 15 October 2024: AM cohort and PM cohort
- Coffee Machine - An interactive play: 16 October 2024
- ALICE Physics Week + Collaboration Board meeting at Grand Hotel Salerno, Italy, 2-6 Dec 2024: Please Register
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Recent PhDs in ALICE: Congratulations to our new Doctors: (ALICE Theses website)
- Dr Abhi Modak
Thesis title: Inclusive Photon And Charged-Particle Production In Proton-Proton And Proton-Lead Collisions At LHC Energies With ALICE
CDS link: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2906384
Thesis defence: 24th July, 2024
Supervisor: Dr. Sidharth Kumar Prasad
Service work: Data Quality Assurance for the PMD
- Dr. Prottay Das
Thesis title: Studying chiral magnetic wave, hadronic rescattering and f1(1285) production in high energy collisions with ALICE detector
CDS link: http://cds.cern.ch/record/2905864
Defense date: 22 July, 2024 at NISER Bhubaneswar, India
Supervisor: Prof. Bedangadas Mohanty
Service Task: QA of resonance simulations and Hyperloop operator
- Dr. Neelkamal Mallick
Thesis title: Event topology dependence of $J/\psi$ production in proton+proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV with ALICE at the LHC and Study of elliptic flow in heavy-ion collisions using event shape and machine learning techniques
CDS link: https://cds.cern.ch/record/2905929
Defense date: 18 July 2024
Supervisor: Prof. Raghunath Sahoo
Service work: Benchmarking and validation of Run 2 converted data in the new ALICE-O2 framework
Meet Masami Kawamoto
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ALICE probes the strong interaction three-body problem: home.cern news! Published in Physical Review X
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- CERN70 Feature Series:
- CERN70: Superconductors accelerate progress (20 Sep 2024)
- CERN70: Into the antiworld (3 Sep 2024)
- CERN70: Where the Web was born… (20 Aug 2024)
- CERN70: Green light for LEP (31 Jul 2024)
- CERN70: The end of the alphabet (11 July 2024)
- CERN70: A two-stage rocket (27 June 2024)
- 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
- 6 November (mini-week)
- 4 December (during physics week)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar, Friday 4 Oct 2024, 11:00: "Timing RPCs: 25 years" by Paulo Fonte
- EP-ESE Electronics Seminars, Tuesday 8 Oct 2024, 09:00: "The VTRX+ story" by Csaba Soos (CERN)
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 8 Oct 2024, 11:00: "Test of lepton flavour universality at LHCb with b decays" by Sebastian Schmitt (I. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, DE)
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 9 Oct 2024, 11:30: "Black Hole Information Recovery from Gravitational Waves" by Louis Hamaide
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 9 Oct 2024, 14:00
- Demystifying creativity, 11 October 2024 14:00 Zoom
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:
- !!! CRITICAL !!! Three SL blocks: October 12-21
Several shift blocks open in October and November (pp and HI period)
Shifts booking via SAMS.
- LHC and P2 news:
- LHC:
The LHC successfully completed the MD4 tests during the weekend and on Monday, with excellent machine availability. The last fill of the machine development was dumped on Tuesday around 1 am, to prepare for the access for the VIP visits on Tuesday morning, related to the 70th CERN anniversary celebrations.
The machine restart after the VIP visits has been quite complicated, with faults detected in several beam line elements and control systems. Stable beams were finally declared on Wednesday morning around 7:30 am. However, this first fill lasted less than three hours and was followed by about 7 hours of downtime due to RF and cryogenics issues before resuming physics production in the evening. On Thursday the LHC inserted a fill for the commissioning of the anticipated proton-proton reference run and then provided a long physics fill during the night.
After a short planned access on Friday morning, the physics production will resume until the start of MD5 on October 17th, which will mark the end of the p-p 13.6 TeV physics production in 2024.
- P2 operations:
ALICE remained in the super-safe state during the MD4. On Monday we performed the periodic software upgrade, as well as some expensive tests of the data acquisition with the full EPN farm, in preparation for the heavy ion data taking. Tuesday morning has been very busy day at P2, with many delegations visiting the experimental cavern and the LHC tunnel near ALICE.
The physics data taking was restarted with the magnets in positive field configuration, to equalise the statistics with the opposite orientations, and will continue until the next MD5 block.
- LHC:
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| pp - reference run setup | 25-26 Oct |
| pp - reference run | 27 Oct - 1 Nov |
| Pb-Pb run setup | 2 - 5 Nov |
| Pb-Pb run | 6 - 25 Nov |
| End of Run 2024 | 25 Nov at 6 AM |
| EYETS | 25 Nov 2024 to 12 Mar 2025 |
| Private visits | 25 Nov 2024 (14:00) to 27 Mar 2025 (12:00) |
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- XXXV International School “Francesco Romano” on Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics (ISFR2024), Monopoli (Bari), Italy, 6-13 Oct
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- 15th Thematic CERN School of Computing on Machine Learning, Split, Croatia, 12 October
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Triggering Discoveries in High Energy Physics workshop, High Tatras, Slovakia, 9-13 Dec, abstract deadline 9 Nov
- The 9th International Symposium of HF Production in Hadron and Nuclear Collisions, Guangzhou, China, 6-11 Dec, abstract deadline 1 Nov
- BCVSPIN Conference 2024, Particle Physics and Cosmology in the Himalayas, Kathmandu, Nepal, 9 December, abstract deadline 30 Oct
- Miami2024 Physics Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US, 12-19 Dec, abstract deadline 30 Oct. NEW Invitation for a plenary talk on « review of recent ALICE results” (30min), contact CC + 1 more talk on specific subject (30 min)
- DAE-BRNS HEP Symposium: The DAE-BRNS High Energy Physics (HEP) , Varanasi,, India, 19-23 Dec, abstract deadline 3 Nov
- Hot Jets: Advancing the Understanding of High Temperature QCD with Jets, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 8-10 Jan, Abstract deadline 21 Oct
- LakeLouise2025: Lake Louise Winter Institute 2025 University of Alberta, lake Louise (Canada) 2-8 March 2025: Invitation for an overview talk (contact CC)
- APS April Meeting 2025, Anaheim (US), 16-21 March 2025. Abstract deadline 25 October
- Physics in Collision 2024 PIC2024, Athens, Greece, 22 October, abstract deadline 4 October, opportunities for contributed talks contact PWG
- Hydrodynamics and related observables in heavy-ion collisions, Nantes, France, 28 October, abstract deadline 8 October, opportunities for contributed talks contact PWG
- Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy WPCF 2024, Toulouse, France, 4 November, abstract deadline 15 October, opportunities for contributed talks contact PWG
- 9th International Conference on High Energy Particle and Nuclear Physics in the LHC Era (HEPNP2025), Valparaiso, Chile. 6-10 Jan 2025: Invitation for an overview talk, + contributed talks (contact PWG, CC)
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SCHOOLS
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Dates of upcoming major conferences
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Florian, Rohaan):
- 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
- VIP visits to ALICE on 30 September and 1 October (CERN 70)
- Mr Mikkel Leihardt, Director, Danish Agency for the Higher Education and Science, Ministry of Higher Education and Science, Kingdom of Denmark
- Her Excellency Professor Andrea Brito Latge, National Secretary for Strategic Policies and Programs, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Brazil
- Her Excellency Professor Maria Mrowczynska, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Republic of Poland
- His Excellency Mr Tudor Prisecaru, Secretary of State, Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitalization, Romania
- Her Excellency Ms Desiree Schweitzer, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office and specialized institutions in Geneva, Austria
- His Excellency Mr Peter Pellegrini, President, Slovak Republic
- Her Excellency Ms Kristiina Kokko, State Secretary, Ministry of Education and Culture, Republic of Finland
- His Excellency Professor Radovan Fuchs, Minister of Science, Education and Youth, Republic of Croatia
- Mr Mikkel Leihardt, Director, Danish Agency for the Higher Education and Science, Ministry of Higher Education and Science, Kingdom of Denmark
- ALICE Visits this week:
- Saturday 28 September 2024
- Saint Nicolas School, UK
- Colleague’s friend, Germany
- Sunday 29 September 2024
- colleague’s family, Czech Republic
- Thursday 3 October 2024
- X LO Wroclaw, Poland
- Saturday 28 September 2024
- ALICE virtual visits
- Friday 27 September 2024:
European Researchers Night: live connection, from the ARC, with the National Technical University of Athens, University of Thessaly, National Centre of Reesearch and Technological Development, Thessaloniki (EKETA), Greek Mediterranean University, Foundation for Research and Technology, Crete and University of Patras
- Friday 27 September 2024:
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
DIVERSITY
- ALICE workshop on inclusive teamwork, 15 October 2024: AM cohort and PM cohort
This fall we will have two sessions of ALICE training on Inclusive teamwork. The training is offered to all members of the ALICE management and team leaders free of charge. The workshop consists of two REMOTE sessions of three hours each over two consecutive weeks. The maximum number of participants for each session is 12. Please Register for either AM cohort or PM cohort.
- Coffee Machine - An interactive play, Wednesday 16 Oct 2024, 16:30, CERN
The ATLAS Collaboration and the CERN Diversity & Inclusion Programme are pleased to welcome you to an original theatre-forum by Specta(c)tor. The event tis in-person only at CERN main auditorium. Although the event is arranged by ATLAS, the entire LHC community is encouraged to register and attend – free of charge!
- 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.
Please refer to Job Announcements link for details.
Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!