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No.331,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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- ALICE Mini Week: 4-8 Nov 2024
- ALICE Physics Week + Collaboration Board meeting at Grand Hotel Salerno, Italy, 2-6 Dec 2024: Please Register
- Quark Matter 2025 conference (6-12 April 2025), Frankfurt am Main
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
The 2024 test-beam campaign for the ALICE 3 TOF project:
R&D for the ALICE 3 Time Of Flight: test beams for the characterization of CMOS-LGAD sensors, optimized for timing measurements, are ongoing at the PS from 16 October.
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- ALICE - Underground - Guide training / refresh before YETS 2024/2025: please check your training ranks (10640 ALICE - Underground – Guide) in ADAMS.
If you do not have it or if it expires before the end of YETS please inscribe on the waiting list for the ALICE underground guides training at the LINK.
This will trigger the organization of sufficient training sessions and you will be invited asap.
- Accelerator Report: Ending the 2024 LHC proton run on a high note
- Updated schedule for CERN’s accelerators by Mike Lamont (4 Oct 2024)
- CERN Press Release: Particle physicists chart a course to the future (11 Oct 2024)
- ALICE probes the strong interaction three-body problem: home.cern news! Published in Physical Review X
- Strange correlations benchmark hadronisation: CERN Courier Sep/Oct 2024
- CERN70 Feature: CERN70: Tasting the primordial soup (18 Oct 2024)
- Jürgen Schukraft joined CERN’s heavy-ion programme in 1986 and was the first spokesperson for the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
- CERN70 Feature Series:
- CERN70: Switching on the Large Hadron Collider (4 Oct 2024)
- 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 (2 May 2024)
- CERN70: Tracing particles (26 Mar 2024)
- CERN70: The dark side of the muon (14 Mar 2024)
- CERN70: The heart of CERN’s accelerator chain (29 Feb 2024)
- CERN70: A first discovery (14 Feb 2024)
- CERN70: The Laboratory takes shape (1 Feb 2024)
- CERN70: Foundations for European science (18 Jan 2024)
- Next Physics Forum Dates for 2024
- 6 November (mini-week)
- 4 December (during physics week)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- "Looping in the Primordial Universe": October 28, 2024 to November 1, 2024, CERN
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 29 Oct 2024, 11:00: "Probing Higgs boson interactions with heavy quarks with the ATLAS detector" by Elisabeth Schopf ( Universitaet Siegen (DE) )
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 29 Oct 2024, 14:00: "Coarse-Grained Holography: Chaos, Eigenstate Thermalization, and 3D Gravity" by Diego Liška ( EPFL/U. Geneva )
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 30 Oct 2024, 14:00: "Physics of and from the large-scale structure of the Universe" by Matthew Lewandowski ( CERN )
- Dark Matter Day 2024: 31 October 2024 at 7:30 PM
- EP-ESE Electronics Seminars, Friday 1 Nov 2024, 10:00: "Total Ionizing Dose Effects in Si MOSFETs up to Ultra-High-Dose" by Federico Faccio ( CERN )
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
| Title | Internal | Submission Date |
| 23 Oct 2025 |
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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 !!! Partial SL block: October 26-27 (two nights)
- Shifts booking via SAMS.
- ALICE Run Manager (14 Oct - 27 Oct): Michal Broz
- LHC and P2 news:
- LHC:
During the past week, the LHC carried out the planned MD5 activities, followed by the second Technical Stop of the year (TS2). Unfortunately, the MD5 has been severely affected by various issues with the machine, mainly related to the magnets Quench Protection System (QPS). Hence, only a fraction of the planned tests have been completed successfully.
The TS2 took place between Monday and Wednesday and was followed by an extra day of stop to complete the replacement of a cryogenic compressor in Point 6. The beam operations have been resumed on Thursday evening, with the final beam commissioning for the proton-proton reference run and some anticipated commissioning of the lead beams.
After three days of beam commissioning until the end of the weekend, the proton-proton reference run will finally start next Monday (28 October 2024)! Currently, the reference run is scheduled to last 6 days, until Saturday, November 2nd. The first days will be devoted to a short-intensity ramp-up and the van der Meer scans, followed by about 4 days of physics production at the full machine.
- LHC:
| 2024 schedule | |
| pp - reference run setup | 26-27 Oct |
| pp - reference run | 28 Oct - 3 Nov |
| Pb-Pb run setup | 3 - 4 Nov |
| Pb-Pb run | 5 - 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) |
- P2 operations:
ALICE has performed the final software upgrades and hardware maintenance during the MD5 and TS2 periods, and is fully ready for the start of the heavy ion period. During the technical stop, a repair of the power converter for the dipole magnet also took place, following a fault on Friday (18 Oct) evening that lead to a trip of the magnet. The dipole has been successfully ramped up and tested after the repair, and is fully back in operation.
ALICE will remain nearly off during the final beam commissioning phase, except during a test of the Pb beam background that will take place during the weekend. During this critical measurement, the ITS, FIT, MFT, and ZDC detectors will collect some precious data that will provide an early assessment of the beam background levels with the 2024 LHC optics. The results will be discussed with the machine operators and, if needed, further mitigation measures will be studied during the reference run and implemented in the final commissioning of the Pb beams.
The ALICE control room is animated by a great excitement for the approaching start of the heavy ion run, with all the shifters and system experts on the starting blocks, ready to ensure the best possible data taking for the p-p reference and Pb-Pb runs!
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Hydrodynamics and related observables in heavy-ion collisions, Nantes, France, 28-31 October
- 2024 IEEE NSS MIC RTSD, Miami, Florida, USA, 26 October - 2 November
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Workshop on Particle Correlations and Femtoscopy WPCF 2024, Toulouse, France, 4-8 November, abstract deadline 15 October, opportunities for contributed talks contact PWG
- Light-Cone 2024: Hadron Physics in the EIC era (LC2024), Huizhou, China, 25 November, abstract deadline 1 Nov
- The 9th International Symposium of HF Production in Hadron and Nuclear Collisions, Guangzhou, China, 6-11 Dec, abstract deadline 1 Nov. Invitation for a plenary talk « Heavy flavour Overview » (25min) contact CC
- East Asian Workshop on Exotic Hadrons 2024. Nanjing, China, 8 December, abstract deadline 18 Nov
- Triggering Discoveries in High Energy Physics workshop, High Tatras, Slovakia, 9-13 Dec, abstract deadline 9 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. 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
- 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)
- Hot Jets: Advancing the Understanding of High Temperature QCD with Jets, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 8-10 Jan, Abstract deadline 3 Nov
- 10th Asian Triangle Heavy-Ion Conference (ATHIC 2025), Berhampur, Odisha, India, 13-16 Jan 2025, abstract deadline: 15 Nov
- BORMIO 2025: 61st International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics, Bormio, Italy, 27 January, abstract deadline 10 November
- 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
- 31st International Conference on Ultra-relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions (Quark Matter 2025), Frankfurt, Germany, 6 April, abstract deadline 31 October Central submission for talks see below
- Spatind 2025 - Nordic Conference on Particle Physics, Thon Hotel Skeikampen, 2-7 Jan 2025, abstract deadline: 15 Nov 2024
- Hot Quarks 2025, Zipeng Mountain Guangyuan, 12–16 May 2025.
SCHOOLS
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Dates of upcoming major conferences
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Florian, Rohaan):
- LHC Job Matching Event (JMEv) Fall '24: 27 November 2024:
LHC Early Career Scientists Fora (LHC ECSF) present the upcoming edition of the LHC ECSF Job Matching Event (JMEv), to be held remotely on Wednesday 27th November 2024.
The event aims to bring early career researchers and recruiters together to discuss open academic job positions on an LHC experiment. You can find all of the relevant information on the event’s Indico page.
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If you are an early career researcher, looking for a position in HEP at an LHC experiment, you can register using the following form.
- If you are a senior member of an LHC experiment, offering a position (open now or opening in the near future), and looking for candidates, you can register using the following form
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- ALICE Run 3 Analysis Resources: 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.
- LHC Job Matching Event (JMEv) Fall '24: 27 November 2024:
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE underground visits are possible from 25 Nov 2024 (14:00) to 27 Mar 2025 (12:00)
Contact the ALICE visits team for any questions!
- ALICE Visits this week:
- Saturday 19 October 2024
- colleague’s friends, Netherlands
- Thursday 24 October 2024
- Thomas Alleynes High School, UK; V Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace, Poland
- Professional visit (Andritz Gruppe), Austria
- Friday 25 October 2024
- Istituto dell’Aquila Staffa, Italy
- Loreto Grammar School,UK
- ALICE member’s friend, Austria
- Saturday 19 October 2024
- "Quanta. The Journey to the Beginning of Time" - 5-31 October 2024: Event being organized in Bucharest, Romania, to celebrate 70 years since the founding of CERN and 25 years since Romania became part of the ALICE project.
Initiative of Prof. Dr. Mihai Petrovici, the coordinator of the Romanian team at ALICE. Press Release on the Facebook link.
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- VIP visits to ALICE on 1 October 2024 (CERN 70)
- Happy 70th anniversary CERN
- ALICE Probes the strong interaction three-body probelm
- We reached 500
- 🎶The ALICE experiment is red, Our magnets are blue, It’s CERN's birthday, And we want to celebrate with you🎶
- Can you guess their profession (Tapan)?
- Instagram Live from ACR (6 Aug 2024)
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 Job Announcements link for details.
Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!