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No.358,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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ALICE detects the transformation of lead into gold at the LHC
CERN Media Update: |
The LHC physics Season gets underway:
Stable beams in the LHC: 5 May 2025, 14:00 hrs 
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- ALICE Physics Forum, Wednesday 14 May 2025, 09:30, 160/R-009 (CERN)
- "ALICE 3" Days: 19 - 21 May 2025
- The registrations are open. We look forward to a broad participation at CERN.
- The ALICE 3 Scoping Document is public on CDS
- 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
- Accelerator Report: The first stable beams of 2025, a milestone and a beginning: By Rende Steerenberg
- Call for nomination: plenary ALICE Overview talk at Initial Stages 2025, Taipei, Taiwan, 7-12 September 2025:
provide your nominations to alice-cc-chairs@cern.ch by the 23 May.
Self-nominations are also welcome. Please include a brief motivation to support your suggestions.
- Conference Committee Membership, available position: 1 mandate from 1 July 2025 to 31 June 2027 with expertise in DQ (/HF). If interested to join Conference Comittee or want to propose someone,: please contact alice-cc-chairs@cern.ch
- Call for nominations for Event-by-Event / Fluctuations PAG coordinator: open untill 9 May 2025. Email your nominations directly to CF conveners!
- Geographical enlargement: how the CERN family has grown By Charlotte Lindberg Warakaulle
- European Strategy for Particle Physics: community input received:
Substantial contributions to the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics set the stage for discussions that will define the next flagship collider at CERN
- Official News regarding the CERN Safety Rules
- 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:
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
- Detector Seminar, Friday 9 May 2025, 11:00: "The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02)" by Corrado Gargiulo (CERN)
- "Infrared Surprises of Scattering Amplitudes": 12–16 May 2025, CERN
- "News, Opportunities and Challenges in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis [Online EuCAPT Workshop]": 12–13 May 2025:
- EP-ESE Electronics Seminars, Tuesday 13 May 2025, 09:00: "Signal and Power Integrity using Ansys Electronics Desktop: Practical Case Studies" by Francesco Martina (INFN Lecce e Universita del Salento (IT))
- Knowledge Transfer Seminar, Tuesday 13 May 2025, 10:30: "From CERN to Entrepreneur: Navigating the Science Startup Journey"
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 13 May 2025, 11:00 Main Auditorium (CERN): "Search for H→cc via ttH production at CMS" by Sebastian Wuchterl (CERN)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 14 May 2025, 14:00: "Rigorous approaches to non-perturbative scattering amplitudes, correlators and partition functions" by Balt van Rees (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
- A&T Seminar, Thursday 15 May 2025, 14:00: "Proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration for high-energy lepton beams" John FARMER (BE-ABP-PEC)
- BE Seminars, Friday 16 May 2025, 16:00: "An overview of progress with the study of a Structured Laser Beam (SLB) for alignment" by Witold Grzegorz Niewiem
- FCC Feasibility Study Report: CERN community info meeting and discussion: 27 May 2025, CERN
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
| Title | Internal | Submission Date |
| Femtoscopic study of the proton-proton and proton-deuteron systems in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC | 2 May 2025 |
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
- Open Shift block:
In the upcoming week we have still an open QC block (13 – 18 May ). Please get in contact with RC also in case if single day booking can be done.
- LHC:
- This week, the intensity ramp-up started with the first Stable Beams at full energy on Monday afternoon, with a short with 4b. Afterwards machine went directly to the second step with 12b, which was running till Tuesday morning.
- Due to issues observed during Stable Beams (wrong bump in IP8, and high losses), some further alignment andloss maps need to be done.
- On Wednesday, the reconfiguration of the LHC cooling to full mode was performed, followed by the start of the scrubbing phase, which will last till Sunday morning. In between, a last 12b fill for validation of the change setting had been carried out on Thursday night.
- On Sunday, the continuation of the ramp is planned with further steps in the upcoming week.
- ALICE:
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During the first fills, ALICE was taken for the ITS color run studies. Afterwards, ALICE was taking data at low IR, to check the system performance after the restart, which did not show any issue.
During the access in the shadow of the reconfiguration of the cooling plants, TRD and ITS profited to replace power supply modules. -
During the next intensity step (75b) ALICE plans to take special data for TPC distortion maps and a fill with B=0 alignment data for the muon spectrometer and the central barrel.
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In the upcoming week, special runs at high IR are planned.
- Run Manager (28 Apr - 11 May): Magnus Thoegersen
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Hot Quarks 2025 Hefei, China , 11-17 May
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 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. Invitation for HF parallel talks, contact PWG HF and CC chairs.
- Fifth MODE Workshop on Differentiable Programming for Experiment Design, Kolumbari, Crete, 8-13 June. No deadline
- 21st Rencontres du Vietnam: Flavour Physics Conference 2025, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, 17-23 August.
- 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
- XIV International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2025), Kolymbari, Crete, Greece. 17-31 July, abstract deadline 31 May. Invitation for on or two highlight talks on recent results, + overview talks on PWG subjects, trigger, DAQ, detectors, upgrades etc.. contact PWG and CC chairs.
- 32nd International Symposium on Lepton Photon Interactions at High Energies: Lepton-Photon 2025 (LP2025), Madison, (US), 25-29 August. Abstract deadline 31 May. invitation to submit abstracts for Quark Flavor Session, contact PWG and CC chairs
- Low-x 2025, Medulin, Istria, Croatia, 8-12 September. Abstract deadline 30 June. Invitation to submit abstracts on QCD and HI. contact PWG and CC chairs
- 15th International QCD@LHC Workshop (QCD@LHC 2025), Stony Brook,USA, 8-12 September. Invitation to submit abstracts. contact PWG and CC chairs
- HYP2025, Tokyo, 29 September - 3 October invitation for hypernuclei, strangeness, hadron structure, HF, future talks. contact PWG and CC chairs
SCHOOLS
- COMETA training school: ML4Physics@Ljubljana,Slovenia, 26 June - 2 July
- The XXIII Bonaudi-Chiavassa Int. School of Particle Detector, Cogne, Italy, 23-27 June. Registration deadline 20 June
- Quantum Chromodynamics and multidimensional hadron structure”, School, Orsay, France, 7-11 July, registration deadline 15 May
- Erice International School/Workshop of Nuclear Physics, 46th course on 'QCD under extreme conditions - present and future', Erice, Italy. 15 September. registration deadline 1 July
- 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.
- International Summer School of QCD 2025, IJCLab, Orsay, 6-12 Jul 2025, Application deadline 15 May.
- 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 3 May 2025
- colleague’s friends, Italy, Netherlands
- Monday 5 May 2025
- colleague’s friends, Spain
- Tuesday 6 May 2025
- visitors from Ireland
- Ugur High School, Türkiye
- professional visitors from France (Bilatérale 2025)
- Wednesday 7 May 2025
- Guru Nanak Sikh Academy, UK
- Thursday 8 May 2025
- ESM, Germany
- colleague’s friends, Australia
- Friday 9 May 2025
- Lycée la Versoie, France
- colleague’s friends, Spain, Germany
- groupe du service immobilier de la radio télévision suisse (RTS), Switzerland
- Saturday 3 May 2025
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
- Quark Matter 2025 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!