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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
LHC Seminar, Tuesday 10 Jun 2025: "Exploring Collective Dynamics in Small Collision Systems with ALICE at the LHC" by Dr Debojit Sarkar (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) |
- Particle Therapy Masterclass 20 June 2025, CERN
- "ALICE measures a rare Ω baryon" : CERN Courier (May/June 2025) Energy Frontier
Link to CERN Courier ALICE articles!
- CERN Media Update (8 May 2025) "ALICE detects the transformation of lead into gold at the LHC"
- Accelerator Report: LHC on track despite disruptions throughout the accelerator complex by Rende Steerenberg:
- Computer Security: 5 ways to remotely connect to CERN
- 13th ROOT Users Workshop will be held in Valencia, Spain: 17–21 Nov 2025
- European Strategy for Particle Physics: community input received
- Open Symposium on the European Strategy for Particle Physics, Venice, 23–27 June
- 16th edition of the Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement (CPOD2026) will take place at CERN, 13-17 April 2026.
- Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 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 (extraordinary)
- 5 November (physics week at CERN)
- 3 December (extraordinary)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- "Intensity Limitations in Hadron Beams": 15–27 Jun 2025, Borovets, Bulgaria
- CERN Computing Seminar, Tuesday 17 Jun 2025, 13:00: "Lessons From Billions of Breached Records" by Troy Hunt (haveibeenpwned.com)
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 17 Jun 2025, 14:00 by Spenta Wadia (ICTS Bangalore)
- EP Seminar, Tuesday 17 Jun 2025, 14:00: "A final moment for the muon" by Peter Winter
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 17 Jun 2025, 16:00: "Studies of positive-parity low-spin states in the A = 150 region" by Robert Arthur Bark (iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation (ZA))
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 18 Jun 2025, 11:30: "Listening for ultra-heavy dark matter with underwater acoustic detectors" by Christopher McCabe (King's College London)
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 19 Jun 2025, 11:00: "Differential Higgs observables and measurements" by Alessandro Tarabini (ETH Zurich (CH)), Roberto Bonciani (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)
- "Sparks! 2025 – Imagining Quantum City": Thursday 19 Jun 2025
- "Charming Lattice QCD @ CERN 2025" 23-25 June 2025
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
| Title | Internal | Submission Date |
| Study of ⟨pT⟩ and its higher moments, and extraction of the speed of sound in Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE | Link | 12 Jun 2025 |
| 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 there is one open SL shift (17 June – night ) and one DCS block (22 – 27 June), which still need to be covered. In case of questions please contact RC (alice-rc@cern.ch)
- In the upcoming week there is one open SL shift (17 June – night ) and one DCS block (22 – 27 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, the machine continued production in full swing. Two longer breaks were caused by problems with cryogenics in Pt. 8. On Thursday, a longer fill (>30h) was carried out during a magnet replacement in the SPS.
- In the upcoming week, the machine will continue with physics production until Thursday morning, with the start of Machine development.
- ALICE has been taking physics data during the last week. The data-taking efficiency was very good, resulting in 8.04/pb recorded luminosity ( 8.46/pb delivery luminosity). During the long fill, a long run with >27h has been carried out. On Tuesday morning, a sw update was done. The investigation about the enhanced background contribution are ongoing.
- During this week, the testing with an Oxygen-Oxygen synthetic data set has started during beam break to check the system for the upcoming special run period.
- Run Manager (9 - 22 June): Nicolas Strangmann
Nicolas is a PhD student at the University of Frankfurt. During his bachelor’s and master’s studies, he focused on ω meson measurements using calorimeter and tracking data. In his PhD, he became increasingly involved in the EMCAL calibration, QA, and operations.
This is Nicolas's first RM mandate. During the last year, he has contributed to the operation of the ARC through numerous central shifts and his roles as EMCAL on-call and deputy SRC. During his present mandate, he will follow the proton-proton data-taking and production into the first MD period.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 21st Rencontres du Vietnam: Flavour Physics Conference 2025, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, 17-23 August. Abstract deadline 30 June
- 26th international symposium on spin physics (SPIN2025), Qingdao (Tsingtao), China, 22 - 26 September 2025. Abstract deadline: 30 June 2025
- Second International Conference on the Physics of Two Infinities,Tokyo, Japan 17-21 Nov 2025. Abstraxt deadline 15 June.
Invitation to submit parallel talks. Contact PWG, CC chairs
- 53rd SLAC Summer Institute, “Pathways to New Physics., Stanford, USA, 28 July - 8 Aug. Abstract deadline 24 July.
- 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 for posters: 31 July. 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
- 53rd International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD) 2025, Corfu, Greece, 21-28 September. Abstract deadline 30 June. Invitation to submit abstract + plenary overview UPC. Contact PWG and CC chairs.
- Corfu2025 Workshop on SM & Beyond, Corfu, Greece, 24 August - 3 September 2025. Invitation for a plenary talk Contact PWG, CC chairs
- QCD2025, 25th Anniversary, 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
- XVII International Conference on Heavy Quarks and Leptons (HQL 2025), Beijing, China, 15–19 Sep 2025.
- 7th international workshop on new Photon-Detectors, Bologna, Italy, 3-5 Dec 2025.
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
- 8th edition of the cross-disciplinary International Summer School INFIERI series, Pisa Italy, 1-13 September 2025, 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 7 June 2025
- University of Udine, Italy
- IES Senda Galiana, Spain
- Tuesday 10 June 2025
- Kaunas Jesuit High School, Lithuania
- 1 LO CIECHANOW, Poland
- Wednesday 11 June 2025
- Mukat Public School, India
- Tapan Nayak’s students visit, India
- Thursday 12 June 2025
- IES Liceo Caracense, Spain
- Ukraine-CERN committee
- colleague’s friends, Lebanon
- Friday 13 June 2025
- colleague’s friends, Italy
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- ALICE eyes the cosmos
- 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!