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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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- CERN official holiday: Thursday, 29 May (Ascension day)
- 162nd LHCC Meeting - OPEN Session: 2 Jun 2025, 14:00 Main Auditorium (CERN)
- ALICE Mini Week: 10-13 June 2025
- ALICE Week: 14-18 July 2025
- ALICE Upgrade Week 2025: 7-10 October, Burghausen (Germany): deadline for registration and hotel booking: 7 Aug 2025
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- "ALICE measures a rare Ω baryon" : CERN Courier (May/June 2025) Energy Frontier
Link to CERN Courier ALICE articles!
- The May/June 2025 issue of the CERN Courier is out
- Accelerator Report: The LHC reached 1200 bunches per beam – full intensity is in sight!
By Rende Steerenberg:
On 19 May, the LHC reached 1200 bunches per beam, a level that is considered meaningful for physics. The full intensity of 2460 bunches per beam could be achieved before the end of the week
- 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
- Micro-Talks, "Self-Care: Why should you care?" Friday 23 May 2025, 14:00
- Real-time and out-of-equilibrium dynamics in the quantum HEP era: 26–28 May 2025, CERN
- FCC Feasibility Study Report: CERN community info meeting and discussion: 27 May 2025 at 16:00 hrs, CERN Main Auditorium
- 157th Meeting of the SPSC Open Session: 27 May 2025
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 27 May 2025, 11:00 222/R-001 (CERN): "Observation of orbitally excited Bc+ states at LHCb" by Liupan An (Peking University (CN))
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 28 May 2025, 11:30: "Does the 220 PeV Event at KM3NeT Point to New Physics?" by Vedran Brdar (Oklahoma State University (US))
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) and one DCS block (14 – 19 June) which need to covert. In case of questions please contact RC.
- LHC and ALICE:
- During the last week, the machine managed to finalize the steps of 800b and 1200b and started with the 1800b filling schema.
- The operation during the last week was quite smooth, apart from two issues with the cryogenic system, which caused some downtime on Wednesday night.
- For the next days, the final steps of the ramp are planned to reach a filling with 2400b.
- With the 1800b filling schema ALICE switch the period (LHC25ac) and started the physics production at 500kHz interaction rate.
- Before this, further tests at Pb-Pb were carried out to study the stability of the TPC FC. During this test, stability issues occurred, which are currently under investigation.
- ALICE will continue to take data at the nominal rate.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- EMMI workshop on soft-photon production, Heidelberg University, 26 May 2025
- INPC2025, Daejeon, Korea, 25-30 May
- Flavour Physics at the LHC school, CERN, 26-30 May
- FFK2025, 10th International Conference on Precision Physics and Fundamental Physical Constants, Warsaw, PL, 26-30 May
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 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, 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
- Corfu2025 Workshop on SM & Beyond, Corfu, Greece, 24 August - 3 September 2025. Invitation for a plenary talk, Contact PWG, CC chairs
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 deadline: 31 May.
Upcoming major conferences
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Florian, Rohaan):
- Early-career researcher input for the European Strategy for Particle Physics: hybrid event on Tuesday, 27 May (1.00–4.00 p.m. CEST) to explore and discuss these recommendations and to reflect together on how to move forward as a community. The event is open to all, regardless of career stage or affiliation. We warmly welcome your participation and input.
- 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.
- Early-career researcher input for the European Strategy for Particle Physics: hybrid event on Tuesday, 27 May (1.00–4.00 p.m. CEST) to explore and discuss these recommendations and to reflect together on how to move forward as a community. The event is open to all, regardless of career stage or affiliation. We warmly welcome your participation and input.
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE visits
- Monday 19 May 2025
- colleague’s family, Spain
- Tuesday 20 May 2025
- 1 LO Starachowice, Poland
- Rainham Mark Grammar School, UK
- Wednesday 21 May 2025
- Ugur College, Türkiye
- Thursday 22 May 2025
- 1st Experimental Primary School of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Giulia Bini, head of Arts at CERN
- colleagues’ family and friends, Malta, Poland
- Friday 23 May 2025
- 14 LO Warszawa, Poland
- Conseil Municipal de Vandoeuvres, Switzerland
- CERN interns, France
- Monday 19 May 2025
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- ALICE measures a rare Ω baryon
- 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!