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No.374,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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- "Initial Stages Rehearsals" 2-4 Septmeber 2025: ZOOM
- ALICE Mini Week: 25-29 August 2025
- ALICE Upgrade Week 2025: 7-10 October
- ALICE Physics Week: 3-7 Nov 2025 at CERN
- ALICE Week: 8-12 Dec 2025
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- "Charting the Luminosity Capabilities of the CERN Large Hadron Collider with Various Nuclear Species" by E. Waagaard, R. Bruce, R. Alemany Fernandez, H. Bartosik, J.M. Jowett, N. Triantafyllou! The authors explore the nucleon-nucleon luminosity projections in the LHC for a selection of ion species ranging from He to Xe, and including Pb as reference!
- ICFA Instrumentation Prizes Nomination 2026: due on 13 October 2025
ICFA is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2026 ICFA Instrumentation Awards. These awards are bestowed annually to recognise exceptional contributions to instrumentation that have advanced the field of particle physics. Nominations are due by 23:59 GMT on 13 October 2025.
- SEARCH2025 (20-24 Oct 2025 at CERN) Call for posters abstracts:
SEARCH, a bold new conference series designed to become a hub for exploring new physics discovery potential and breakthroughs at high-energy physics experiments. All talks are by invitation only. There will be however an open poster session. Submit here your POSTER abstract (deadline: 15 Sep 2025)!
- Accelerator Report: A summer of hot spells for the LHC: By Rende Steerenberg (21 Aug 2025)
- Official News regarding the CERN Safety Rules
- Move More, Eat Better: Tuesday 16 September: Boost your health at work by joining the CERN Medical Service campaign!
- "A new probe of radial flow": Energy Frontier, CERN Courier Jul/Aug 2025
- Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 1 October (extra-ordinary)
- 5 November (physics week at CERN)
- 3 December (extra-ordinary)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- "Invisibles Workshop 2025" 1–5 Sept 2025, CERN
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 3 Sept 2025, 14:00: "The Present and Future of Flavor" by Marzia Bordone (University of Zürich and CERN).
- CERN Colloquium, Thursday 4 Sept 2025, 16:30: "What JWST Reveals about the Hubble Tension" by Adam Riess.
- "TH Institute on Quantum Simulation & Computation in High-Energy Physics" 8–19 Sept 2025, CERN.
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
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 case of questions, please contact RC (alice-rc@cern.ch)
- In case of questions, please contact RC (alice-rc@cern.ch)
- LHC and ALICE:
- During the last week, LHC provided pp collisions at full machine. The average time in Stable Beams was around ~60%.
- Next Monday, a four-day period of machine development will start. Afterwards (on Friday), there will be an access dedicated to x-ray scans of RF modules in different locations, in view of a possible increase in the bunch intensity.
- The vacuum situation in the machine around P2 is still being monitored closely since regular excursions are observed. The frequency of background spikes decreased during the last week.
- ALCE data taking went quite smoothly. A total luminosity of 25.8/pb of pp data was recorded. During the last week, two hardware issues occurred. Due to a problem with a FV0 channel and a power supply issue affecting TOF, 25% of the acceptance is impacted. Both could be fixed in an access.
- On Monday, a software update was performed in the shadow of an access for the SND emulsion exchange.
- During the last week, LHC provided pp collisions at full machine. The average time in Stable Beams was around ~60%.
- Current Run Manager (18 - 31 Aug): Yael Antonio VASQUEZ BELTRAN
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Joint International Workshop on Hadron Structure and Spectroscopy and the QCD Structure of the Nucleon (IWHSS-QCD-N'25), San Sebastian, Spain, 1-5 September
- QCD at the extremes, online, 1-12 September
- 2nd Workshop on Matter, Astrophysics, Gravitation, ions and Cosmology: Science of the Cosmos (MAGIC2025), Buenos Aires, 1-4 September
- Precision Frontier of QCD Matter: Inference and Uncertainty Quantification", Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, 1-12 September
- 8th edition of the international Summer School series INFIERI (INtelligent signal processing for FrontIEr Research and Industry) in Pisa Italy, 1-13 September
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Low-x 2025, Medulin, Istria, Croatia, 8-12 September. Abstract deadline 30 Aug. Invitation to submit abstracts on QCD and HI Contact PWG and CC chairs.
- SPIN2025 26th International Symposium on Spin Physics, 22-26 September, Qingdao, China, abstract deadline 31 August
- Baryons 2025 (The 2025 International Conference on the Structure of Baryons), Jeju, South Korea, 10 November, abstract deadline 31 August
- 2025 international workshop on the high energy Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC2025) , Guangzhou, China, 6-10 November, abstract deadline 15 September
- 13th ROOT Users Workshop (ROOT 2025), Valencia, Spain, 17-21 November, abstract deadline 15 September
- ExHIC-d 2025 (ExHIC-d workshop on QCD and hadronic dense matter),Jeju, South Korea, 15-17 November, abstract deadline 31 August
- Second International Conference on the Physics of Two Infinities, Tokyo, Japan 17-21 Nov 2025. Abstract deadline 29 August. Invitation to submit parallel talks. Contact PWG, CC chair
- MIAMI 2025 Physics Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Florida, US, 12-18 Dec 2025, Invitation for a review talk + additional talks contact CC chairs
- 7th international workshop on new Photon-Detectors (PD2025) , Bologna, Italy, 3-5 December, abstract deadline 10 September
- 7th International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics (TIPP2026) TIFR, Mumbai, India, 2-6 February, abstract deadline 15 September
SCHOOLS
- EDIT 2026 Instrumentation School at CERN , 3 March, registration deadline 1 October
Upcoming major conferences
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8-12 Sep 2025 |
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22-27 Mar 2026 |
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18-22 May 2026 |
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31 May - 5 June 2026 |
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Rohaan, Sara)
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- Diversity Office - Open Junior Rep Position
A Junior Representative is needed in the Diversity and Inclusion Office! If you wish to learn more (about the term, the responsibilities, the selection process…) and you are considering applying, reach out to alice-diversity-office@cern.ch. You can also write directly to Ananya, the former Junior Rep in the D&I, ananya.rai@cern.ch to get more insights on the role.
- 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.
- Link to all ALICE Theses
- ALICE Theses website
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis.
- Diversity Office - Open Junior Rep Position
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE visits:
- Saturday 23 August 2025
- SWISSto12 (professional visitors), Switzerland
- colleagues’ friends, Germany
- Sunday 24 August 2024
- Visitors from Ukraine
- Monday 25 August 2025
- colleague’s friends, USA
- Tuesday 26 August 2025
- Nobel Algarve British International School, Portugal
- ALICE member’s friends, Romania
- Wednesday 27 August 2025
- visitors from Switzerland
- Thursday 28 August 2025
- Greene Tweed ( (professional visitors), Switzerland
- colleague’s friends, UK
- CMS colleagues
- Friday 28 August 2025
- Imina (professional visitors), Switzerland
- arx IT (professional visitors), France
- ALICE members’ friends, Germany
- Saturday 23 August 2025
- ALICE Masterclasses:
ALICE masterclasses were held for the Greek Teacher Programmes: Tuesday 26 August and Friday 29 August 2025.
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
DIVERSITY
- ALICE workshop on inclusive teamwork - AM cohort: 9 and 23 Sept 2025, 09:30
- ALICE workshop on inclusive teamwork - PM cohort: 9 and 23 Sept 2025, 14:00
This workshop is particularly important for people with management roles (PAG coordinator, PWG convener, team leaders, project leaders, run managers and other coordinating roles), but the workshop is open to all ALICE members. Please register promptly - seat allocation starts at the end of August.
- 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.