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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to the four Large LHC experiments for their “detailed measurements of Higgs boson properties confirming the symmetry-breaking mechanism of mass generation, the discovery of new strongly interacting particles, the study of rare processes and matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the exploration of nature at the shortest distances and most extreme conditions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider”.
Congratulations to everyone involved!
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- CERN holidays: Friday 18 April (Good Friday) and Monday 21 April (Easter Monday).
CERN Official holidays in 2025 and end-of-year closure 2025/2026 are in the link here.
- "ALICE 3" Days: 19 - 21 May 2025
- The registrations are open - please register if you plan to attend in person, so that we can plan for the practicalities.We look forward to a broad participation at CERN and to strong progress on all fronts of detector R&D and design!
- The ALICE 3 Scoping Document is public on CDS
Thanks to the WG coordinators and everyone involved.
- ALICE Mini Week: 9-13 June 2025
- ALICE Week: 14-18 July 2025
- ALICE Upgrade Week 2025: 7-10 October, Burghausen (Germany).
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Congratulations for best posters and getting selected for Flash Talks:
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- CERN management structure for 2026–2030: By Mark Thomson, Director-General designate of CERN
- Accelerator Report: LHC protons outpacing the Easter tradition: By Rende Steerenberg
- Charm jets lose less energy: CERN Courier (Mar/Apr 2025) Energy Frontier
- Conference Committee Membership: 1 mandate from 1 July 2025 to 31 June 2027 with expertise in HF/DQ.
If you are interested to join Conference Comittee or want to propose someone: please contact CC chairs before 30 April.
- ESPP2026 - Strong Interactions Open WG Meetings, 14 - 28 May
- Open Symposium on the European Strategy for Particle Physics, Venice, 23–27 June
Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 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
- Wednesday 23 Apr 2025, 14:00: Theory Colloquia: "Some Aspects of Complexity and Krlov Complexity" by Eliezer Rabinovici (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL))
- Saturday 26 Apr 2025, CERN: "Girls in ICT 2025 – Discovering computing at CERN"
CERN invites young girls to explore the world of information and communication technologies (ICT) through discovery workshops!
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
- During the past week, commissioning of the LHC continued, progressing through several steps such as orbits measurement, collimator alignment, ramp configuration, and validation of the proton, ion, and VdM cycles and many more.
Last Monday, the first collisions were set up at all interaction points. This was done with the ALICE magnet remaining off, following an issue with the dipole power converter involving two faulty resistors, which could be fixed during an access on Tuesday.
On Wednesday morning, a severe water leak appeared in UA27, causing damages to several racks. Repairs lasted until Thursday evening, after which beam commissioning resumed over the Easter weekend.
Due to this issue, the first stable beams at injection energy had to be canceled before Easter. Only a short session will be planned after easter.
The first stable beams at full energy are expected at the beginning of May, coinciding with the start of the intensity ramp-up.
- Preparation in ALICE:
- During beam commissioning ALICE was running mainly replay data for performance studies. During no beam period cosmics runs were taken to allow readout studies. ALICE is prepared for data taking with stable beams.
- During beam commissioning ALICE was running mainly replay data for performance studies. During no beam period cosmics runs were taken to allow readout studies. ALICE is prepared for data taking with stable beams.
- Run Manager (14 - 27 Apr): Krystian Roslon
Krystian is a young physicist from WUT in Poland. He joined ALICE in 2016, where he specialized in data analysis using femtoscopy techniques. In 2022, Krystian became part of the FIT team and made significant contributions to the development of the FIT Detector Control System. As a result, in 2024, he was appointed FIT DCS Technical Coordinator.
Since 2022, he has also held the position of FIT System Run Coordinator, gaining valuable experience in ALICE operations and data acquisition. He is also experienced in Run Management, as this is his second mandate.
During his current mandate, Krystian will oversee the first commissioning period with initial collisions, as well as the finalization of ALICE commissioning through the running of SYNTHETIC and REPLAY data. He will also face the challenge of organizing data taking for the first proton-proton collisions of the year, at 900 GeV, during the first week of his mandate.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 3rd "Corfu Workshop on Future Accelerators", Corfu ,Greece, 27 April - 4 May
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 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
- 23rd Conference on Flavor Physics and CP Violation (FPCP 2025), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 2-6 June, abstract deadline 12 May
- 15th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2025), Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 8-13 June, abstract deadline 4 May
- Fifth MODE Workshop on Differentiable Programming for Experiment Design, Kolumbari, Crete, 8-13 June. No deadline
- 21st International Conference on QCD in Extreme Conditions (XQCD 2025) University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland, 2-4 July, abstract deadline 24 April. Contact PWG, CC chairs.
- 21st Rencontres du Vietnam: Flavour Physics Conference 2025, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, 17-23 August, abstract deadline 30 April
- Initial Stages 2025, Taipei, 7-12 September, abstract deadline 27 April, (EXTENDED) Contact PWG conveneers for abstract submission
- 15th International QCD@LHC Workshop (QCD@LHC 2025), Stony Brook,USA, 8-12 September, abstract deadline 1 May
- Parton Showers and Resummation Conference 2025 (PSR2025), CERN, 14-18 July, abstract deadline 1 June
- Second International Conference on the Physics of Two Infinities,Tokyo, Japan 17-21 Nov 2025. Abstraxt deadline 15 June. Invitation for 1 plenary talk “ALICE latest results and future perspectives” + parallels. Contact PWG, CC chairs
- BOOST 2025 -- 17th International Workshop on Boosted Object Phenomenology, Reconstruction, Measurements, and Searches at Colliders, Brown University,Providence USA, 28 July - 1 August. Abstract deadline 13th May. Invitation to submit abstracts. Contact PWG, CC chairs
- QCD at FAIR symposium, Grand Hotel Faraglioni, Sicily, Italy, 22-28 june. Invited talk for “Overview on selected results on hadron and exclusive channels from ALICE" Contact CC chairs
SCHOOLS
- COMETA training school: ML4Physics@Ljubljana,Slovenia, 26 June, registration deadline 4 May
- The XXIII Bonaudi-Chiavassa Int. School of Particle Detector, Cogne, Italy, 23-27 June. Registration deadline 20 June
- Parton Showers and Resummation School 2025, CERN, 7-11 July, registration deadline 25 April
- Quantum Chromodynamics and multidimensional hadron structure”, School, Orsay, France, 7-11 July, registration deadline 15 May
- The XXIII Bonaudi-Chiavassa Int. School of Particle Detector, Cogne, Italy, 23-27 June. Registration deadline 20 June
- 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.
- GRASPA2025 Summer School in Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Annecy, France, 16 July, registration deadline 5 May
- Summer School on Advanced Artificial Intelligence for precision High Energy Physics (AIHEP), Como, Italy, 14-25 July, Registration deadline: 13 April
- DRD1 Gaseous Detectors School 2025, Bonn, Germany, 17-24 Sep, Registration open.
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 visits
- Monday 14 April 2025
- colleague’s family and friends, Russia
- Tuesday 15 April 2025
- Fryganiotis School, Thessaloniki, Greece;
- Webster University Students of Social Engineering, Switzerland;
- The Marches School, UK
- Wednesday 16 April 2025
- St John’s College, South Africa
- Thursday 17 April 2025
- colleague’s family, Slovakia
- Monday 14 April 2025
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
- ALICE Muon Spectrometer
- 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!