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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 26 Nov 2024, 11:00, Main Auditorium (CERN): "Accessing the strong interaction in three-hadron systems with ALICE" by Bhawani Singh (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))
- ALICE-India Collaboration meeting at Aligarh Muslim University, 25 - 29 Nov 2024
- ALICE 2024 end-of-run party: 25 Nov 2024 at Point 2: As the end of the 2024 run is approaching, we would like to invite you to the end-of-run party on Monday 25 November at 12:00 at Point 2. This year has been a record year for data taking, with excellent operational efficiency. Everyone is invited to take a moment to celebrate this success.
- ALICE Physics Week + Collaboration Board meeting at Grand Hotel Salerno, Italy, 2-6 Dec 2024
- AIM (Alice Ideas in Motion) Session: "Discussion on QGP signatures and how to explain them outside our field": Tuesday 3 December at 16:30 at the ALICE Physics Week
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Plenary Talks at Major Conferences:
- Quark Matter 2025, Frankfurt, 6-12 Apr 2025: Open Call: Please send your proposals to alice-cc-chairs@cern.ch by 28 November.
- LHCP Conference, Taipei, 5-10 May 2025: Four multi-experimental plenary talks by ALICE speakers on:
- Hadron interactions and spectroscopy (CF)
- Investigating interactions in the QGP with high pT and Heavy Flavour (HF)
- Ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions (UD)
- ALICE Upgrades (Upgrade [only ALICE, not multi-experimental])
Expression of interest to be sent to PWG conveners before 1 December (exceptionnal procedure due to short timeline)
- Quark Matter 2025, Frankfurt, 6-12 Apr 2025: Open Call: Please send your proposals to alice-cc-chairs@cern.ch by 28 November.
- ALICE CB Chairperson Candidate Election will take place during the ALICE Physics Week in Salermo. Here is the 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
- ALICE/CERN invitation letters: Launch of new website for submitting CERN invitation letters for visa purposes, official conventions d’accueil, and informal letters (e.g. requested by your home institute).
- 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)
- 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)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar, Friday 22 Nov 2024, 11:00: "Large-scale Integrated Circuits with 2D MoS2 for Neuromorphic Computing" 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))
- Physics for All - Física Para Todos, Saturday 23 Nov 2024 10:30, Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
- CERN at 70 and the Greek contribution, Monday 25 Nov 2024, 10:00, Athens, Greece
- Global Health Webinar: Can technologies developed for particle physics tackle global health challenges?: 26 Nov 2024
- CERN Lattice Coffee, Tuesday 26 Nov 2024, 16:00: "Non-perturbative determination of the Sphaleron Rate in Quantum Chromo-Dynamics" by Dr Claudio Bonanno (CSIC)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 27 Nov 2024, 14:00: "Positivity Constraints for condensed matter and cosmology" by Paolo Creminelli
- CERN Computing Seminar, Wednesday 27 Nov 2024, 14:30: "Dark side of ICT – AI in warfare and cyber-diplomacy" by Prof. Gian Piero Siroli (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 27 Nov 2024, 15:00 : "How new physics at MeV temperatures affects cosmic neutrinos and BBN" by Maksym Ovchynnikov (CERN)
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 28 Nov 2024, 11:00: "The mass of the W boson [CMS,TH]" by Kenneth Long (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), Thomas Cridge
- KT Seminars, Friday 29 Nov 2024, 14:00: "The Edge spAIce project: Edge AI technology on a satellite for near real-time detection and monitoring of marine plastic litter"
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:
The physics production progressed very well during the weekend, with a daily luminosity production close to 0.2 nb-1. The operations have been interrupted on Monday morning to invert the polarity of the ALICE magnets, followed by a short access and the validation fills for the new magnets configuration. The validation included one short fill at low intensity, after which the machine resumed physics production at nominal intensity.
After three fills at full machine the LHC experienced another large quench on Wednesday in the early morning, that required about 20 hours of recovery. The production then resumed on Wednesday night and will continue until Sunday at 4am.
The last day of the run will then be devoted to a planned machine development, during which the machine will perform the annual quench test with beam.
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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 is collecting physics data quite smoothly, with an average data taking efficiency above 85%. So far we recorded an integrated luminosity of about 1.4 nb-1 in physics fills at full machine, and we are approaching the statistics collected in 2023. New TPC calibration data for the negative magnets polarity have been collected in the low-intensity fill at the beginning of the week, thus completing the set of special runs needed for the characterisation of the space charge distortions in Pb-Pb collisions.
In the night between Thursday and Friday we also collected some additional data for the study of the beam-induced background in the ITS. Thanks to the expertise of the LHC operators, at the end of one fill it has been possible to dump only one of the two beams, and collect some special data with only Beam2 circulating in the machine. This provided precious indications on the origin of the current ITS background. While the residual background has a marginal impact on the ITS performances for physics, the understanding of its origin and propagation is important in view of future upgrades. Another test with Beam1 will be organised before the end of the run, to complete the measurement.
Apart from those tests, ALICE plans to collect as much physics data as possible in the remaining days!
The 2024/25 EYETS will start on Monday morning. The magnets will be switched off and the cavern will be opened for normal access to start the maintenance activities.
- LHC:
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Light-Cone 2024: Hadron Physics in the EIC era (LC2024), Huizhou, China, 25 November
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 25 Nov
- XVII Polish Workshop on Relativistic Heavy-Ion collisions, Warsaw University of Technology, 14-15 Dec, abstract deadline 1 Dec
- 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
- DeSyt2025, LaboratoryNazionaliSud, Italy, 24-28 February, abstract deadline 20 December, opportunities for detectors, upgrades
SCHOOLS
- 2025 CERN Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics, Quesada, Costa Rica, 30 April to 13 May, Application deadline: 10 January 2025
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
Looking for your next position in HEP? Or are you offering a position on an LHC experiment and are looking for suitable candidates?
- 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 16 November 2024
- PrepaTek, Mexico
- MODAFEN high school, Türkiye
- colleague’s friends, Germany
- Monday 18 November 2024
- ALICE member’s friends, Germany
- Tuesday 19 November 2024
- ALICE member’s friends, Greece
- XLIV Liceum, Poland
- Wednesday 20 November 2024
- 1st Lyceum of Volos, Greece
- I.M.Panagiotopoulos School, Athens, Greece
- Thursday 21 November 2024
- Bergenstudents, Norway
- Saturday 16 November 2024
- ALICE Masterclasses:
- Saturday 16 November 2024: a joint ALICE and CMS virtual visit took place as part of the CERN70 event, organized by Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary.
- Discover the Universe with Romania at CERN: Mihai Petrovici writes that: on 15 Nov 2024, we inaugurated the exhibition here in Magurele campus, where our and other national institutes are located. There have been many people from CERN and Malika Meddahi represented the CERN management. You will recognize many people from the short movie in the link here.
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- #AskAPhysicist series on CERN Social Media - video part 3 with Chiara Pinto, Tulika Tripathy and Ananya Rai: facebook, X/Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram
- #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
- 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!