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No.383,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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ALICE Physics Week 2025 at CERN: 3-7 Nov 2025 |
- ALICE Week: 8-12 Dec 2025
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Conference Committee Membership (deadline: 5 November):
Call for nominations to join Conference Committee with expertise in UD, Detector/Upgrade, and CF, in view of future openings of positions: Please contact alice-cc-chairs@cern.ch before 5 November if you are interested or if you want to propose someone. Mandate is for two years.
- 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
- "Accelerator Report: When plans meet reality…" By Rende Steerenberg (28 Oct 2025)
The two beams circulating in the LHC are currently running with different bunch intensities – an unexpected (but successful) premiere, giving us a good chance to reach last year’s luminosity record
- "The accelerator chain prepares for high luminosity" By Jacques Fichet & Corinne Pralavorio
The accelerators that feed into the Large Hadron Collider are ready to supply more intense beams.
- "CERN publishes its first open science report" 29 Oct 2025
- "Using portable heaters at CERN" 27 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
- Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 3 December (extraordinary)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Design Fiction Workshop for Hybrid Prototyping" 31 October 2025, CERN
- Detector Seminar, Friday 31 Oct 2025, 11:00: "Overview of HGCAL detector" by Chiara Amendola (CERN)
- BE Seminars, Friday 31 Oct 2025, 16:00: "New kind of particle tracking method" by Lajos Bojtar (CERN)
- "2nd CERN School of Computing on IT Services" 3-7 Nov 2025
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 4 Nov 2025, 11:00, Council Chamber CERN: "Recent searches for new light (pseudo)scalars decaying into a boosted bbˉ pair using the ATLAS detector" by Yuan-Tang Chou (University of Washington (US))
- Archives, Library and Open Science events, Wednesday 5 Nov 2025, 13:30: Meet the author of "Hans Joachim Specht: Scientist and Visionary" by Sanja Damjanovic (SEEIIST Association (CH))
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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: please contact RC (alice-rc@cern.ch):
- ECS Expert: 11.11-16.11
- SL Expert: 29.11-4.12
- QC Expert: 5.12 -7.12
- ECS Expert: 7/8.12
- LHC and ALICE:
- During the last week, the target delivery luminosity at all four IPs for pp was reached one week ahead of the end of pp production of 2025
- The machine was continuing to run with asymmetric beam intensities (B1: 1.4E11 ppb, B2: 1.8E11 ppb). No issue was observed in the machine. The background contribution in ALICE is at a similar level to last week.
- ALICE data taking was quite smooth. So far, 49.0/pb were recorded (52.3/pb were delivered).
- During an access on Thursday morning, a few activities were carried out in the cavern, and some patches for O2 and QC were installed at P2.
- pp production will finish on 5 November, followed by three days of machine development. Afterwards, the HEAVY-ION period will begin, starting with 4 days of commissioning and TS2.
- During the last week, the target delivery luminosity at all four IPs for pp was reached one week ahead of the end of pp production of 2025
- Current Run Manager (27 Oct - 6 Nov): Nicolo Valle:
Nicolo Valle is a post-doc at Pavia. During his Ph.D., he specialized in analysing Z bosons decaying into 2 muons with the muon spectrometer. He measured the Z boson production yield and RAA in Pb-Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV with the RUN 2 data. Since 2019, he has taken care of the development of the new ALICE inner tracking system (ITS), both on the hardware side, being in charge of the mechanical aging tests of the ITS upgrade, and on the software side, having developed part of the ITS synchronous QC and being an expert in the ITS calibration. Thanks to this expertise, he ensured the responsibility of the ITS System Run Coordinator role in 2022 and 2023.
Nicolo already covered one Run Manager block in 2023 and is returning for one more block this year.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 2025 international workshop on the high energy Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC2025) , Guangzhou, China, 5-10 November
- Advances in QCD at the LHC and the EIC, Paray, Brazil , 9-15 November
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:
- Tuesday 28 October 2025
- Reading School, UK
- Wednesday 29 October 2025
- Exeter School, UK
- Gems Wesgreen International School, Arab Emirates
- Thursday 30 October 2025
- The Junior and Senior School, Cyprus
- Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im Emilii Plater w Bialej Podlaskiej, Poland
- FCC relations institutionnelles, France
- Friday 31 October 2025
- Professor Zeblon Vilakazi - the Vice Chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa
- Professor Zeblon Vilakazi - the Vice Chancellor of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa
- Tuesday 28 October 2025
- ALICE Masterclasses
- Friday 31 October 2025: ALICE Masterclasses for Swedish Teachers at the CERN Training Centre in the frame of the Swedish Teacher Programme
- Friday 31 October 2025: ALICE Masterclasses for Swedish Teachers at the CERN Training Centre in the frame of the Swedish Teacher Programme
- IPPOG:
The 30th IPPOG Collaboration meeting took place at CERN, 27-30 October 2025.
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- Marco's visit to India
- 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.