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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- 160th LHCC Meeting - OPEN Session: 18 Nov 2024, 15:00 Main Auditorium (CERN): Andrea Ferrero (Paris-Saclay University (FR)), ALICE Run Coordinator, will present the ALICE Status Report at 15:30
- LHC students poster session, Monday 18 Nov 2024, 17:30 at the CERN Main Auditorum Lobby
- 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, Abstract submission deadline: 14 November 2024
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- ALICE CB Chairperson Candidate Election will take place during the ALICE Physics Week in Salermo. Here is a link to the Recordings of the Q&A session with the three candidates: Mateusz Ploskon, Alessandra Fantoni, and Siegfried Foertsch.
- Call for nominations for candidates for the next ALICE spokesperson: Deadline: 15 December 2024.
- CERN Council selects Mark Thomson as next Director-General, starting in 2026
- Accelerator Report: Lead ions at the heart of the accelerator complex (14 Nov 2024): Lead-ion physics at the LHC and the SPS North Area is already under way and progressing well.
The final lead-ion user in the PS East Area started its physics run on 13 November!
- Accelerator Report: Lead ions take the stage
- 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 Series:
- CERN70: From physics to medicine (14 Nov 2024)
- CERN70: Announcing the Higgs boson discovery (31 Oct 2024)
- CERN70 Feature: CERN70: Tasting the primordial soup by Jurgen Schukraft (18 Oct 2024)
- 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 Date for 2024
- 4 December (during physics week)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- QCD Seminars, Monday 18 Nov 2024, 14:00: "Heavy Flavor Jet Substructure" by Prof. Simone Marzani ( Università di Genova and INFN Sezione di Genova )
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 19 Nov 2024, 11:00: "A new high-precision measurement of the B0 meson lifetime at the ATLAS experiment" by Maria Smizanska ( Lancaster University (GB) )
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 20 Nov 2024, 11:30: "Black holes and gravitational waves from slow and strongly supercooled phase transitions" by Dr Ville Vaskonen
- Archives, Library and Open Science events, Thursday 21 Nov 2024, 14:00: "The Voice of Science - Meet Dr Claire Malone"
- CERN Colloquium, Thursday 21 Nov 2024, 16:30: "Is dark energy weakening?" by Dr Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille ( LBNL, US )
- Detector Seminar, Friday 22 Nov 2024, 11:00: "Large-scale Integrated Circuits with 2D MoS2" by Prof. Andras KIS ( EPFL )
- BE Seminars, Friday 22 Nov 2024, 16:00: "Towards Autonomous Robotic Radiation Surveys in the SPS" by David Guenter Forkel ( University Jaume I (ES) )
- Global Health Webinar: Can technologies developed for particle physics tackle global health challenges?: 26 Nov 2024
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
- ALICE Run Manager (11 - 24 Nov): Michal Broz
- LHC and P2 news:
- LHC:
After completing the Pb-Pb van der Meer scans of all experiments between Friday and Saturday, the LHC resumed the intensity ramp-up, reaching full machine in the night between Saturday and Sunday. During the first fills, the peak luminosity was still kept below the target of 50 kHz hadronic collision rate. The strategy of the machine is to gradually increase the beam intensity while monitoring the losses and the eventual radiation-induced instabilities. After few fills with stable operation, the bunch population was increased by about 25% on Tuesday, resulting for the first time in a levelling of more than 1 hour at 50 kHz in ALICE in fill #10358. Unfortunately the fill was then dumped due to a SEU-induced quench in point 8, that required several hours of recovery, during which the electronics board that triggered the quench has been replaced with a more radiation-hard version.
The machine operations resumed in the night between Wednesday and Thursday, with similar good performances. After some hours devoted to a planned machine development on Thursday, the physics production will continue for the rest of the week.
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 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) - P2 operations:
ALICE has successfully started the physics data taking with Pb-Pb collisions. During this week the ALICE data acquisition and processing system has coped for the first time with a sustained collision rate of 50 kHz, proving to be stable and reliable even in those challenging conditions.
All detectors have been routinely included in the data taking, except for few hours on Sunday were the Muon Identifier had an issue with the gas distribution, that was quickly fixed by the gas experts. At this high collision rates, some detectors are experiencing a somewhat higher frequency of data corruptions and readout hiccups, which are usually promptly detected and fixed, such that they do not impact the quality of the collected data. Nevertheless, the detectors are exhibiting a remarkable stability even during the levelling at the nominal luminosity.
So far the LHC has delivered about 0.6 /nb to ALICE. Provided that the luminosity production will continue smoothly during the next days, we plan to invert the magnets polarity next Monday and collect data in the negative field configuration until the end of the Pb run. The polarity switch will be followed by a short intensity ramp-up, during which we will collect some low interaction rate data for the calibration of the TPC charge distortions.
- LHC:
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- The Eleventh International Workshop on Semiconductor Pixel Detectors for Particles and Imaging (Pixel2024), Strasbourg, France, 18 November
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 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
- XVII Polish Workshop on Relativistic Heavy-Ion collisions, Warsaw University of Technology, 14-15 Dec, abstract deadline 1 Dec
- Miami2024 Physics Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US, 12-19 December, abstract deadline 30 October Invitation for a plenary talk on « review of recent ALICE results ” (30min), contact CC + 1 more talk on specific subject (30 min)
- 9th International Conference on High Energy Particle and Nuclear Physics in the LHC Era (HEPNP2025), Valparaiso, Chile. 6-10 Jan 2025: abstract deadline: 30 November
- LakeLouise2025: Lake Louise Winter Institute 2025 University of Alberta, lake Louise (Canada) 2-8 March 2025: Invitation for an overview talk (contact CC)
- Hot Quarks 2025, Zipeng Mountain Guangyuan, 12–16 May 2025. Invitation to submit abstracts to young speakers.
- Fragmentation in the collider precision era, Zurich, Switzerland, 24 March, abstract deadline 15 Jan. Invitation for an overview talk of measurements with identified light of heavy hadrons in ALICE (contact CC)
- HADRON 2025 — 21st International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy and Structure, Osaka, Japan, 27 March, abstract deadline 15 Jan
- 32nd International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2025), Cape Town, South Africa, 24 March, abstract deadline 15 Jan
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 9 November 2024
- Culford School, UK
- colleague’s friends, Austria
- Tuesday 12 November 2024
- Özel Seymen Eğitim Kurumlari, Türkiye
- Wednesday 13 November 2024
- Kingsbridge Community College, UK
- Ingram Micro (professional visitors), UK
- Thursday 14 November 2024
- Armenian Teacher Programme
- Friday 15 November 2024
- 14 LO Warszawa, Poland
- Saturday 9 November 2024
- ALICE Masterclasses:
- Wednesday 13 November 2024 online ALICE masterclasses were held for two groups of students of the European School Brussels III
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- #AskAPhysicist series on CERN Social Media - video part 2 with Chiara Pinto, Tulika Tripathy and Ananya Rai: facebook, X/Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram
- #AskAPhysicist series on CERN Social Media - video part 1 with Chiara Pinto, Tulika Tripathy and Ananya Rai: facebook, X/Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram
- True or False: heavy-ion edition with Marco Van Leeuwen: facebook, X/Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram
- Heavy-ion run at the LHC begins: Facebook, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram
- 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
- LGBTQ+ in STEM Day - Colloquium and Cupcakes: Tuesday 19 Nov 2024, 14:00, Main Auditorium (CERN)
- CERN mobility survey (deadline: 6 Dec): Please take 1 minute of your time to complete the survey: 7 quick questions to help continuous improvement of CERN’s mobility infrastructure and calculate associated emissions for the next Environment Report.
- 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!