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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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2025 ALICE USA meeting at UT Austin |
- 162nd LHCC Meeting - OPEN Session: Monday 2 Jun 2025, 14:00 Main Auditorium (CERN):
- ALICE Status Report will be presented by Cristian Andrei (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (RO)) at 17:10
- ALICE Status Report will be presented by Cristian Andrei (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (RO)) at 17:10
- ALICE Mini Week: 10-13 June 2025
- CERN Safety Day on 5 June in the area around Restaurant 1. From electrical and noise risks to occupational health, biodiversity, fire safety, waste management and life-saving actions, a range of activities and demonstrations designed to raise awareness and foster good practices will be showcased at the Safety Day.
- "Collaborating in Culturally Diverse Teams” workshop" 12 June 2025, CERN, 4/S-056.
Contact ALICE Diversity Office for details.
- 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
- New Event-by-Event / Fluctuations PAG coordinator: Iwona Anna Sputowska (mandate begins on 1 June).
- "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
- CERN Media Update (8 May 2025) "ALICE detects the transformation of lead into gold at the LHC"
- Accelerator Report: The LHC reached 1200 bunches per beam – full intensity is in sight!
By Rende Steerenberg:
- 13th ROOT Users Workshop will be held in Valencia, Spain: 17–21 Nov 2025
- DRD1 Gaseous Detectors School 2025, Bonn, Germany, 17-24 Sep, Registration deadline: 31 May
- 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 - 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
- "CERN - Nordic Lattice Meeting": 2-4 Jun 2025, CERN
- "Higgs and Effective Field Theory - HEFT 2025": 2–6 Jun 2025, CERN
- TH String Theory Seminar, Monday 2 Jun 2025, 13:30: "Special seminar: Observable and computable entanglement in time" by Alexey Milekhin (Caltech)
- EP Seminar, Tuesday 3 Jun 2025, 11:00: "Search for a new 17 MeV resonance via e+e− annihilation with the PADME Experiment" by Tommaso Spadaro (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 5 Jun 2025, 11:00: "Boosted Higgs measurements" by Fabio Monti (CERN), Stephen Philip Jones (University of Durham (GB))
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:
- two open SL block (2– 7 June, 12 - 17 June), which still need to be covered. In case of questions please contact RC (alice-rc@cern.ch)
- LHC and ALICE:
- During the last week, machine finalized the intensity ramp-up and started pp physics production with fill machine.
The operation was interrupted by a cern-wide power glitch on Saturday morning, which required some lower recovery, and a replacement of an SPS magnet on Monday and Tuesday.
Otherwise, the production went very well and LHC carried out several long fill.
The plan for the upcoming week is to continue physics production.
- ALICE continued to take data for physics at 500kHz visible interaction rate. The data taking efficiency was very good, resulting in 3.08/pb recorded luminosity ( 3.12/pb delivery luminosity).
In the upcoming week, the data taking will continue. Also, some further studies are planned to be carried out to study the TPC Field Cage at high-rate pp.
- During the last week, machine finalized the intensity ramp-up and started pp physics production with fill machine.
- Run Manager (25 May - 8 June): Maximilian Korwieser:
Maximilian (Max) is a Ph.D. student at the Technical University of Munich. He joined the ALICE collaboration in 2017. During his bachelor’s thesis, he reconstructed Sigma⁰ hyperons for femtoscopic studies. Since then, he has specialized in data analysis using femtoscopy techniques to investigate hadron emission and interactions in small systems. His Ph.D. research focuses particularly on vector meson–nucleon interactions, with an emphasis on ρ⁰–proton correlations. He is also involved in the QC effort for the TPC.
This RM mandate is his first. He followed the Run Manager training, taking central shifts for all the roles (QC, DCS, ECS, and Shift Leader). During his mandate, he will supervise pp physics production.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Production and Structure of Matter and Antimatter at High Energies: PAW'25, 1-4 June, Kloster Irsee
- 23rd Conference on Flavor Physics and CP Violation (FPCP 2025), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 2-6 June
- 17th Thematic CERN School of Computing on Machine Learning, Malmo, Sweden, 8-14 June
- 15th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2025), Madison, Wisconsin, United States, 8-13 June
- Fifth MODE Workshop on Differentiable Programming for Experiment Design, Kolumbari, Crete, 8-13 June
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
- 53rd SLAC Summer Institute, “Pathways to New Physics., Stanford, USA, 28 July - 8 Aug. Call for abstracts open.
- XIV International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP 2025), Kolymbari, Crete, Greece. 17-31 July, abstract deadline 15 June. Invitation for 1 ALICE highlight talk, 1 overview on Strangeness, 1 overview on Quarkonia, 1 overview on HF, 1 talk on the contributions of ALICE to the breakthrough price 2025 and 1 outreach on the same topicon, + overview talks on 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 11 June. Invitation to submit abstracts for Quark Flavor Session AND Heavy Ion Physics, 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. Abstract deadline 1 July. 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 30 June.
- Corfu2025 Workshop on SM & Beyond, Corfu, Greece, 24 August - 3 September 2025. Invitation for a plenary talk Contact PWG, CC chairs
- QCD2025, Montpellier, France, 30 June. Invitation to submit abstracts. Contact PWG, CC chairs
- QCD at the extremes, online conference. 1 September. abstract deadline 15 August. Invitation to submit abstracts. 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
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
- Saturday 24 May 2025
- colleague’s friends, Italy; CFMM, France
- Monday 26 May 2025
- colleague’s friends, Germany
- Tuesday 27 May 2025
- Lycée francais Vincent Van Gogh de La Haye, France
- Wednesday 28 May 2025
- Press visit : Kyodo news, interviewing Marco Van Leeuwen
- Thursday 29 May 2025
- colleague’s friends, UK
- Friday 30 May 2025
- colleague’s friends and family
- Germany, Italy; Intertel, Luxembourg
- Saturday 24 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!