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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
- 161st LHCC Meeting - OPEN Session: 3 Mar 2025, 15:00: ALICE Status Report will be presented by Florian Jonas (University of California Berkeley (US)) at 16:30.
- ALICE Week: 17-21 March 2025
- ALICE Upgrade Week 2025 will be held on 7-10 October in Burghausen (Germany), hosted by the TUM group.
- Available occasional care for people coming to CERN with their kids for meetings: https://nurseryschool.web.cern.ch/occasional-care
For help and more info contact the DEI office: alice-diversity-office@cern.ch
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Paul Kuijer (1957–2025)
- ALICE Spokesperson Candidate Interview: Recording available
- "Efficient high performance computing with the ALICE event processing nodes GPU-based farm": Brief Research Report article in Frontiers in Physics, 27 February 2025
- The HEP Software Foundation (HSF) has prepared a draft document titled "The Critical Importance of Software for HEP" as input for the European Particle Physics Strategy Update (EPPSU).
Andreas Morsch has asked us to review the document and share any concerns or suggestions well before the EPPSU submission deadline on 31 March.
- "Accelerator Report: Linac4 beam commissioning is nearing completion and the PS Booster is next in line" By Rende Steerenberg: While the first H- ion beams have been accelerated up to 160 MeV in Linac4, the PS Booster is preparing for its first proton injection of 2025.
- First signs of antihyperhelium-4: CERN Courier January/February 2025: News Analysis
- The other 99%: CERN Courier January/February 2025
- Isolating photons at low Bjorken x: CERN Courier January/February 2025: Energy Frontier
- "How do scientists get lead into the LHC?" by Sarah Charley in Symmetry magazine.
- "Chamonix Workshop 2025: looking to the future" by Mike Lamont:
- "Women and Girls in Science and Technology 2025: reaching out to over 4700 pupils"
- "Private parties in Restaurant 1 – Terms and conditions"
- "Official launch of the Quantum Year"
- New AI Companion features on CERN Zoom
- Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 26 March (during QM approvals follow-up week, only for urgent cases)
- 16 April (mini-week)
- 14 May (extraordinary)
- 11 June(mini-week)
- 9 July (extraordinary -> presentation of exceptional planned Run 3 preliminaries for initial stages in September, one week after OO run)
- 27 August (mini-week -> follow-up and approval of exceptional Run 3 preliminaries for initial stages in September)
- 1 October (extra-ordinary
- 5 November (physics week at CERN)
- 3 December (extra-ordinary)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- TH Cosmo Coffee,Wednesday 5 Mar 2025, 11:30: "Backreaction and Cosmic Butterflies: what simulations can tell us about inflation" by Angelo Caravano
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 5 Mar 2025, 14:00: "The first massive black holes: recent discoveries and open questions" by Marta Volonteri
- KT Seminars, Friday 7 Mar 2025, 09:30: "A Brief History of Time: From High-Energy Physics to AI-Driven Cancer Care" by Arnold Pompos (UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX)
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
Year-End Technical Stop (YETS) ongoing:
- Crane maintenance finished. Shaft will be closed on Friday 14 March
- Detector work ongoing:
- Cooling maintenance of detectors finished
- EMC: Replacement of FEC/TRU ongoing
- FIT: ALFRED implementation for FV0 being finalized; Work in FDD laser system ongoing
- ITS: Standalone readout test
- MCH: Work on station 2 started this week. Work in station 3,4,5 ongoing
- MID: standard gas mixture started. Issue with pressure sensor under investigation
- TPC: Commissioning of new readout system for field cage currents
- TRD: Search for leak in gas system ongoing
- Central System
- System commissioning ongoing
- Partial update of the software performance on Monday
- WinCC update on DCS for most of the systems finished
- Shifts booking opened for whole 2025
- Open Slots: 56 ( Expert O-O : 3 - Expert Pb-Pb: 32)
- All information related to shifts and operations are described in the ALICE Operation Website.
- Several slots still available during the comic data taking in March and commissioning beginning of April
- Shift Leaders:
- Partial Blocks: 22nd -25th Mar (AA/NN)
- Full blocks: 22nd -27th Mar, 1st -6th Apr, 7th -12th Apr
- ECS:
- Partial Blocks: 22nd - 25th Mar (AA/NN) , 22nd /23rd Mar (NN)
- Full blocks: 22nd -27th Mar
- QC:
- Partial Blocks: 22.-25.Mar (AA/NN) , 22/23.Mar (NN)
- Partial Blocks: 22.-25.Mar (AA/NN) , 22/23.Mar (NN)
- Shift Leaders:
- Important dates:
Friday 28 Feb Individual System test (12:00-18:00) – No access to cavern Monday 3 Mar DCS network switch replacement (part 2) starting at 9:00 12/14 Mar DSO test – No access to cavern 21 Mar Magnet powering test 20/21 Mar Handshake test 1 April Cavern Closure
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- LakeLouise2025: Lake Louise Winter Institute 2025, University of Alberta, lake Louise (Canada), 2-8 March
- XXXVIII Rencontres de Physique de La Vallée d'Aoste, LaThuile2025, La Thuile, Italy, 9-15 March
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- ECFA-NuPECC-APPEC Symposium (JENAS), Didcot, UK, 8-11 April, abstract deadline 28 February
- 3rd "Corfu Workshop on Future Accelerators" Corfu Greece, 27 April - 4 May. Invitation to submit short talks. Contact Upgrade coordinators/CC if interested.
- QCD Evolution 2025, Jefferson Lab,USA, 19-23 May, abstract deadline 5 May
- IML2025, 7th IML Workshop on Machine Learning at the LHC, CERN, 19-23 May, abstract deadline 20 April
- FFK2025, 10th International Conference on Precision Physics and Fundamental Physical Constants, Warsaw, PL, 26-30 May, abstract deadline 17 March
SCHOOLS
- Flavour Physics at the LHC school, CERN, 26-30 May, registration deadline 25 March
- 17th Thematic CERN School of Computing on Machine Learning, Malmo, Sweden, 8-14 June, registration deadline 12 March
- COMETA training school: ML4Physics@Ljubljana,Slovenia, 26 June, registration deadline 4 May
- 46th CERN School of Computing, Lund, Sweden, 6-19 July, registration deadline 9 April
- International School of Nuclear Physics, 46th Course: QCD under extreme conditions - present and future, Erice, Sicily, 17-21 September 2025. Call for abstracts submission deadline: 1 July 2025.
- "Machine Learning for Physics school", University of Ljubljana, 26 June - 2 July, Registration deadline 4 May
- International Summer School of QCD 2025, IJCLab, Orsay, 6-12 Jul 2025, Application deadline 15 May.
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Dates of upcoming major conferences
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Florian, Rohaan):
- Following the LHC-wide mental health survey conducted in 2023, which was developed by the ALICE Junior representatives, the ALICE Diversity office and Sarah Speziali, we are happy to announce that the results of the survey are finally analyzed and publicly available as a combined CMS and ALICE public note:
Assessing the mental health state of LHC scientists (ALICE-PUBLIC-2025-001,CMS NOTE-2025/001)
The note contains answers from all four LHC experiments, and was not only limited to junior members of the collaborations. We thank everyone who participated and hope that the note will serve as a basis for future initiatives.
- 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.
- Following the LHC-wide mental health survey conducted in 2023, which was developed by the ALICE Junior representatives, the ALICE Diversity office and Sarah Speziali, we are happy to announce that the results of the survey are finally analyzed and publicly available as a combined CMS and ALICE public note:
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE underground visits from 25 Nov 2024 (14:00) to 27 Mar 2025 (12:00).
Contact the ALICE visits team for any questions!
- ALICE visits
- Saturday 22 February 2025
- Master students University of Bologna, Italy
- Centre Universitaire Romand d’implant cochléaire et ORL de HUG, Geneva, Switzerland
- ALICE members’ friends and family, Italy, France, Spain
- Sunday 23 February 2025
- ALICE members’ friends and family, Italy, Croatia
- Monday 24 February 2025
- ALICE members’ family, Czech Republic, Lebanon
- University of Trieste, Italy
- Tuesday 25 February 2025
- Collegio Fonda Trieste, Italy; Liceo Antonio Scarpa, Italy
- Lycée la nativité, France; Liceo Steiner, Italy
- ALICE members’ friends, Italy
- VIP Visit: His Excellency Mr Juraj Blanár, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Slovak Republic
- Wednesday 26 February 2025
- The Sheffield College, UK
- TUM students, Germany
- ALICE open visit;
- photographer Christian Clauwers, Belgium
- Thursday 27 February 2025
- Campion School Athens, Greece
- CNRS Alsace, France
- Friday 28 February 2025
- Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; DEll/Swisscom, Switzerland
- Gokceada Greek Minority School, Türkiye
- GLANCE team, Switzerland;
- Mexican Ambassador
- Saturday 22 February 2025
- ALICE virtual visits
- Saturday 22 February 2025 virtual visit for Particle Therapy masterclasses in Greece
- Tuesday 25 February 2025 virtual visit for Isfahan University of Technology, Iran
- Wednesday 26 February 2025 virtual visit for ALICE Masterclasses in Catania, Trieste, Thessaloniki
- Thursday 27 February 2025 virtual visit for Particle Therapy masterclasses in Greece and Lithuania
- ALICE Masterclasses
- Wednesday 26 February 2025
ALICE Masterclasses were held in Catania, Salerno, Trieste, Thessaloniki, Cape Town iThemba Labs - Friday 28 February 2025 ALICE Masterclasses were held in Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Münster
- Wednesday 26 February 2025
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- Getting lead to the LHC? How?
- ALICE is gearing up for QM 2025!
- 11 Feb: International Day of Women and Girls in Science
- "The Other 99%"
- ALICE Christmas video
- Early Morning Coffee at CERN podcast Episode 3: Turning lead into primordial soup with Marco Van LeeuwenInstagram Live from ALICE cavern with Jiyoung Kim, Kai Schweda, and Simone Ragoni
- QGP at 50: Facebook, X/Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram
DIVERSITY
- Work Well Feel Well: Emotions: forces for transformation: Part eight of the Work Well Feel Well series looks at how to acknowledge and manage our emotions!
- 25 by ’25 Gender Diversity Progress:
The latest data shows remarkable progress toward the 25% gender diversity target, originally deemed unattainable by experts due to low staff turnover. We are now less than 0.5% away from the goal! A special thank you to Hiring Managers for their dedication to “conscious hiring” over the past years. With a diverse feeder pool of students and grads, we are optimistic that this will result in increased gender diversity among staff in the medium and long term. More info ....
- D&I Volunteer Networks:
- SNAC (Neurodiversity) Network:
The network, set to officially launch in Q1 2025, already has over 60 members. Recent feedback from a participant highlighted the value of connecting with others who share similar neurodivergent traits.
- Coordinator position open for The Network for persons with Disability:
The role involves acting as a contact point for disability-related questions, participating in Diversity & Inclusion Roundtable meetings, and monitoring projects aimed at improving working conditions for people with disabilities at CERN. Please contact Jean-Yves Le-Meur for more details.
- SNAC (Neurodiversity) Network:
- 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!