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No.381,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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- ALICE Physics Week 2025 at CERN: 3-7 Nov 2025, Main Auditorium (CERN)
- ALICE Week: 8-12 Dec 2025
- ALICE extraordinary CB meeting: Friday, 24 October 14:00 hrs.
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
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- Conference Comittee Membership (deadline: 5 November): Call for nomination to join Conference Comittee with expertise in UD (mandate 1Jan 2026 - 30 Dec 2027). In view of future openings of position, people with CF and detector expertises nomination are also invited to express their interest to join the Conference Comittee. Please contact alice-cc-chairs@cern.ch before 5 November.
(Nominations and self nominations are welcome)
- Call for new Diversity Office members: If you would like to be considered for membership of the Diversity office, or would like to nominate someone, please contact Kai Schweda and Marco Van Leeuwen, with CC to Sami Räsänen
- Charming energy–energy correlators: CERN Courier Sep-Oct 2025
- ALICE Calendar 2026
- "CERN management structure for 2026–2030, part 3" By Mark Thomson (26 Sep 2025)
- "Accelerator Report: LHC performance stays on track and is cruising towards the target" by Rende Steerenberg (3 Oct 2025).
- "European Strategy update enters final straight" By Matthew Chalmers (3 Oct 2025)
- "Preserving particle physics data" By Davide De Biasio
- "CERN accelerates medical applications" By Amedeo Habsburg
- A new CERN Community Support Centre (CCSC) branch is opening in the Main Building
- ICFA Instrumentation Prizes Nomination 2026: due on 13 October 2025
- Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 3 December (extraordinary)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- EARCH Conference: 20-24 Oct 2025, CERN
a bold new conference series designed to become a hub for exploring new physics discovery potential and breakthroughs at high-energy physics experiments.
- Lattice seminar, Tuesday 21 Oct 2025, 16:00: "Lattice QCD Studies of Electroweak Box Contributions to Beta Decays" by Xu Feng (Peking University)
- Theory Colloquia, by Axel Brandenburg (Nordita), Wednesday 22 Oct 2025, 14:00: "Dynamos versus magnetogenesis: astrophysics versus cosmology" by Axel Brandenburg (Nordita)
- "Symposium on Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics: Quantum simulators in HEP" 27–28 Oct 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
- pen shift block: please contact RC (alice-rc@cern.ch)
- LHC and ALICE:
- Last Friday, production restarted after machine development was finished. The last set of the MD was cancelled due to some vacuum activity in a collimator (TCLD in 11R2) during tests with high bunch intensity.
- During the first production fill, the beam intensity was increased up to 1.7E11. After a few fills, a worsening of the vacuum in 6L2 was observed, related to an increase in the temperature. Afterwards, the bunch intensities had to be decreased to 1.4-1.5E11 to allow a cooldown of this RF module.
- On Friday morning, an access is scheduled for several required interventions. During this access, an X-ray scan of the 6L2 RF module and the collimator in 11R2 will also be conducted to determine the further operation strategy and whether a replacement is required.
- ALICE data taking is going smoothly. So far, 42.2/pb were recorded.
- During the week, an issue with the HMP cooling plant occurred. The intervention on the plant is scheduled for access on Friday morning.
- During the test, a sw update is also scheduled. The final SW update before the software freeze is planned for next week. Afterwards, only cherry picking of approved changes is possible.
- Current Run Manager (13-26 Oct): Cristian Andrei :
Cristian Andrei is a physicist from Bucharest NIPNE. He is a specialist in pion, kaon, and proton production in high-multiplicity pp events, studying the dependence of their production as a function of charged-particle multiplicity and event shape. He is an active member of the PWG-LF, has made significant contributions, and has been a member of several analysis and paper review committees (ARC, IRC). Cristian has substantial experience in data taking and ALICE operation at P2. Since 2016, he has taken up all central shifter positions repeatedly: ECS, DCS, QC, and SL. He has experience in operating ALICE during the previous heavy-ion run period and has taken several RM terms in the past. Since 2025, he is also been the ALICE Training Coordinator.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- EARCH2025, CERN, 20 October
- 44th Physics in Collision Symposium (PIC 2025), Zewail City. Giza Cairo , Egypt, 20 October
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 25th ZIMÁNYI WINTER WORKSHOP ON HEAVY ION PHYSICS, Budapest, Hungary, 1-5 December, abstract deadline 19 October.
Invitation for a review talk contact CC chairs - MIAMI 2025 Physics Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Florida, US, 12-18 Dec 2025, Invitation for a review talk + additional talks contact CC chairs
- Excited QCD 2026 Workshop (EQCD26), Granada, Andalucia, Spain, 8-14 Jan; Abstract deadline 4 Nov. Invitation to submit abstracts, contact CC chairs
- Cracow epiphany Conference 2026, Kraków, Poland. 12–16 January 2026. Deadline: 1 Dec 2025. Invitation for ALICE talks on: (please contact your PWG conveners, or CC chairs)
- ALICE overview talk on HI physics
- Jet production and modification in HI
- Bulk properties of matter in HI
- Recent results from OO/NeNe
- Experimental overview from pp, pPb
- ALICE overview for UPC
- + Young Scientist Sessions
- The 22nd International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter (SQM2026), University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 22-27 March, abstract deadline 1 November. -> CENTRAL submission for talks, direct submission for posters contact PWG conveneers
SCHOOLS
- None
Upcoming major conferences
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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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30 July - 5 Aug 2026 |
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior Representatives (Bianca, Rohaan, Sara)
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- 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 summarising the key results of the PhD thesis.
- 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.
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE visits:
- Saturday 11 October 2025 Mensa Switzerland
- Monday 13 October 2025 FCC visitors, France
- Tuesday 14 October 2025
- Luiss Business School, Italy
- 60plus CSEM Cente Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique, Switzerland;
- Samuel Whitbread Academy, UK
- Wednesday 15 October 2025
- Liceo scientifico Majorana, Lampedusa, Italy;
- AMOPA 74, France
- VIP visit: Professor Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser, Government of India
- Thursday 16 October 2025
- German Teacher Programme
- VIP visit: The Honorable Nadimpalli S. Boseraju, Minister for Minor Irrigation, Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of Karnataka, Republic of India
- Friday 17 October 2025
- European School Luxembourg
- Google Department, Poland
- colleague’s friend, USA
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- Instagram Live with Marco Van Leeuwen (European Researchers' Night: Friday 26 September 2025)
- Shape-shifting collisions probe secrets of early Universe
- Special #LHC seminar on 16 September 2025
- Physics with small ions: jet quenching in Oxygen collisions at the LHC
- Geometry-driven flow in collisions of Oxygen and Neon ions at the LHC
- ALICE at Initial Stages 2025
- Prof. Abhay Karandikar, Secretary of India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST)
- Visit of His Excellency Mr. Rudy Montero Mata, Deputy Minister of Science, Technology, and Environment, Republic of Cuba
- RICH prototype for ALICE 3 tested at the PS
- ALICE Juniors Talk Brazil
- ALICE’s new management team
- ALICE Thesis Award 2025
- It's Oxygen time at the LHC
DIVERSITY
- ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here. Your feedback is 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.