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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider have revealed a previously unseen nucleus known as antihyperhelium-4, says Physics Magazine: Read more..
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First Event Display of 2025!
P2 crew during the first stable beam of 2025! |
- LHCP 2025 rehearsals: 28 Apr 2025 → 2 May 2025
5 plenary talks and 15 parallel talks
- "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)
- Intervention - Shelter works at CERN Bat 53 / Bat 4 (28 April to 11 May):
please note that an intervention by SCE (Site and Civil Engineering department) is planned from 28 April to 11 May to replace the structure of the shelter that runs from Building 53 to the Cerisiers car park.Consequently, this access will be closed from 28 April to 11 May 2025! During this period, works will be noisy and may disturb the occupants!
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Obituary: Hans Gutbrod (1942 – 2025) |
- 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 2025.
- Call for nominations for Event-by-Event / Fluctuations PAG coordinator: open untill 9 May 2025. Email your nominations directly to CF conveners!
- 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
- 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
- Monday 28 Apr 2025, 10:00: QTI Seminars, "Analog Quantum Simulation of Topological Lattice Models with a Parametric Cavity" by Prof. Chris Wilson (University of Waterloo)
- Tuesday 29 Apr 2025, 11:00: LHC Seminars, "Probing electroweak symmetry breaking using vector boson scattering in ATLAS" by Tairan Xu (University of Michigan (US))
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 last week, the commissioning of LHC continued going through several steps, like collision setup at FT, collimator setup, etc.
- On Tuesday morning the first Stable Beams were declared at injection energy in a fill of 5 hours. During this fill calibration for FV0 and FDD were carried out, while the remaining detectors were taking data in a global run at an interaction rate of few kHz.
- After the fill beam-commission was carried on, with ALICE moved again to nearly off.
- On Tuesday afternoon also a software update was carried out, including a fix for the performance degradation on the MI100 EPNs, due to work around after the OS/RocM update.
- During the next days ALICE will continue running replay data.
The first stable beams at full energy are expected during 3-4 May 2025.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 3rd "Corfu Workshop on Future Accelerators", Corfu , Greece, 27 April - 4 May
- 2025 CERN Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics, Quesada, Costa Rica, 30 April 2025 to 13 May 2025
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 27 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
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
- GRASPA2025 Summer School in Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Annecy, France, 16 July, registration deadline 5 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.
- 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.
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 visits
- Saturday 10 April 2025 Digitec group, Czech Republic
- Tuesday 22 April 2025 Lycée Edward Steichen Clervaux, Luxembourg
- Wednesday 23 April 2025 Stratford Upon Avon School, UK
- Thursday 24 April 2025 Evangeliki School of Smyrna, Athens, Greece
- Friday 25 April 2025 General Lyceum of Neapoli Vion Lakonias, Greece; ALICE member’s friends, Greece
- 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!