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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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ALICE detects the transformation of lead into gold at the LHC the beam view: calculations of the trajectories of various beams of ions emerging to the right of the ALICE interaction point (IP). CERN Media Update: |
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- "ALICE 3" Days: 19 - 21 May 2025
- 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
- 13th ROOT Users Workshop will be held in Valencia, Spain: 17–21 Nov 2025
- The 18th Thematic CERN School of Computing (tCSC 2025), 5-11 October 2025, Medils Institute, Split: Application closes: 10 May
- 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 16 May 2025, 11:00: "Superconducting nanowire detectors: from quantum science to high-energy physics" by Boris Alexander Korzh (Universite de Geneve (CH))
- 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
- "Bootstrapping Amplitudes from Weak to Strong Coupling" 19–23 May 2025, CERN
- "7th Inter-Experimental LHC Machine Learning Workshop" 19-23 May 2025, CERN
- EP Seminar, Tuesday 20 May 2025, 11:00: "Spectroscopy of Strange Mesons and First Observation of a Strange Crypto-Exotic State with .... with COMPASS" by Stefan Wallner (MPP (Munich))
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 22 May 2025, 11:00: "Triple Higgs physics at the LHC" by Dr Andreas Papaefstathiou (Kennesaw State University, GA, USA), Carlo Pandini (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 22 May 2025, 13:30: "Higher-axion strings: axion strings in the axiverse" by Mario Reig Lopez (University of Oxford)
- Micro-Talks, "Self-Care: Why should you care?" Friday 23 May 2025, 14:00
- 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 month there are two open SL block (4 – 9 June, 12 -17 June)
- LHC and ALICE:
- During the last week, the intensity ramp continued with the finalization of the 75b during the weekend and 400b on Tuesday and Wednesday night. In between, the scrubbing campaign was carried out to prepare for higher intensities. After some problems during the first scrubbing period, the scrubbing was much smoother in last week.
- The first will with 800b is expected on Friday afternoon.
- During the weekend, the 1200b fills are planned. Physics production is expected to start beginning of the upcoming week.
- During the 75b fill, the data taking for TPC low-rate distortion maps could be carried. In the second fill, data with magnet field off were taken successfully for alignment of the muon spectrometer and central barrel. During the 400b fill system test at nominal interaction rate were carried to prepare for the start of physics production, to also confirm the required number of EPNs for physics production.
- In the next fills, ALICE will carry out test at Pb-Pb equivalent rate, including tests with low solenoid field.
- Run Manager (12 - 25 May): Rafael Angel Narcio Laveaga:
Rafael is a PhD student in ALICE from Instituto Tecnológico de Culiacán – TecNM, Mexico. He joined ALICE in 2016 as a bachelor’s student while in Sinaloa. He holds a degree in mechatronics engineering (from Universidad Politécnica de Sinaloa) and a master’s in physics (from Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa). He specializes in detector design, development, and testing. During Run 2, he worked with the AD detector team and contributed to the FDD proposal between 2016 and 2020. In 2023, he joined the FIT project, where he is analyzing the performance of the FDD detector and its aging. He has also taken part in test beams for the MID detector for ALICE 3. His PhD work focuses on developing plastic scintillators for future detectors and comparing light collection techniques.
Rafael has extensive experience in ALICE central shifts, having covered all positions, and has also served as on-call for FIT. He has been involved in science communication projects in his home state, Sinaloa.
During his mandate as Run Manager, he will oversee the second part of the intensity ramp-up, including the detector special runs and the start of physics production.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- QCD Evolution 2025, Jefferson Lab,USA, 19-23 May
- 13th Beam Telescope and Test Beam workshop, Valencia, Spain, 19-23 May
- IML2025, CERN, Geneva, CH: 7th IML Workshop on Machine Learning at the LHC, CERN (Suisse), 19-23 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 20 May
- 15th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2025), Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 8-13 June, abstract deadline 18 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 23rd May. Invitation to submit abstracts. Contact PWG, CC chairs
- 53rd SLAC Summer Institute, “Pathways to New Physics., Stanford, USA, 28 July, abstract deadline 29 July - 8 Aug
- 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
- High Energy QCD: from the LHC to the EIC, Benasque, Spain, 3-16 August. Abstract deadline 1 June
- 53rd International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD) 2025, Corfu, Greece, 21-28 Septembre. Abstract deadline 31 May
SCHOOLS
- The XXIII Bonaudi-Chiavassa Int. School of Particle Detector, Cogne, Italy, 23-27 June. Registration deadline 20 June
- 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
- 1st PhyStat School of Statistics Statistics in the era of Machine Learning, The Netherlands., 17 November, registration deadline 30 June
- 2025 European School of High-Energy Physics (ESHEP2025), Benasque, Spain, 15 October. registration deadline 23 May
- 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.
- 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 May 2025
- Visitors from France (Sidel)
- Sunday 11 May 2025
- Ugur College, Türkiye
- Monday 12 May 2025
- Webster University, Belarus
- Tuesday 13 May 2025
- Quintonic, France
- 3rd Junior High School of Pallini, Greece
- Wednesday 14 May 2025
- Junior High School of Thira, Greece
- Comenius College Hilversum, Netherlands
- National Public School, Bangalore, India
- Thursday 15 May 2025
- PTI provinciaal technisch instituut Kortrijk, Belgium
- IB-MTIEBI - high school from Georgia
- Friday 16 May 2025
- Kocaeli High School, Türkiye
- Scout Troop 77, Switzerland
- Saturday 10 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!