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No.384,
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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
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 13 Nov 2025, 11:00, TH common room (CERN): "High kT splittings in PbPb [ALICE, TH]" by Adam Takacs (Heidelberg University), Raymond Ehlers (University of California Berkeley (US))
- 164th LHCC Meeting - OPEN Session: 17 Nov 2025, 14:30, Council Chamber (CERN)
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- 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
- "CERN accelerates medical applications" By Amedeo Habsburg
- Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 3 December (extraordinary)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- "4th International Symposium on the History of Particle Physics" 10–13 Nov 2025, CERN: Dedicated to the memory of Herwig Schopper 1924-2025
- "Documentary film on the UA1 experiment" 10 Nov 2025 20:00 and 14 Nov 2025 13:00
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 12 Nov 2025, 14:00: "Future Colliders: Possibilities and challenges" by Jacqueline Keintzel (CERN)
- A&T Seminar, Thursday 13 Nov 2025, 11:00: "Heat recovery at CERN, from one multi-MW case to a generalised approach" by Serge Claudet (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):
- SL Expert: 29.11 - 4.12
- QC Expert: 5.12 - 7.12
- ECS Expert: 7.12 (afternoon)
- LHC and ALICE:
- Last Tuesday (4 Nov) evening, pp data taking for 2025 was completed.
Despite a long series of issues that prevented beam operation in the LHC from Thursday noon until Sunday evening (water leak issues with the 18 kV breaker in Points 1 and 8, and quadrupole trips) - the luminosity targets were reached in all IPs.
- The final ALICE recorded luminosity is 49.9/pb (with 53.5/pb delivered).
- Machine development period: from Tuesday night to Saturday morning.
- Afterwards, the first half of Pb-Pb commissioning will start, including the background measurement campaign, which is expected to happen on Sunday at midday. During this, the background contribution at P2 with the default optics for 2025, with a change in the LHCb beta*, will be checked.
- On Monday morning, the Technical Stop will start, followed by the second half of the Pb-Pb commissioning.
- The first Pb-Pb stable beams are expected on Friday evening, 14 Nov.
- Last Tuesday (4 Nov) evening, pp data taking for 2025 was completed.
- Current Run Manager (27 Oct - 6 Nov): Nicolo Valle
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- Advances in QCD at the LHC and the EIC, Paray, Brazil, 9-15 November
- Connecting the Dots2025, Tokyo, Japan, 10-14 November
- Baryons 2025 (The 2025 International Conference on the Structure of Baryons), Jeju, South Korea, 10-14 November
- ExHIC-d 2025 (ExHIC-d workshop on QCD and hadronic dense matter),Jeju, South Korea, 15-17 November
- The 14th international "Hiroshima" Symposium on the Development and Application of Semiconductor Tracking Detectors (HSTD-14), Taipei, 16-21 November
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Bormio2026, 62th International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics, Bormio, Italy, 27-31 Jan 2026, abstract deadline 16 Nov
- MIAMI 2025 Physics Conference, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Florida, US, 12-18 Dec 2025, Please 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
- "Trento" Workshop: 21st "Trento" Workshop on Advanced Silicon Radiation Detectors, 17-19 Feb 2026, INFN and University of Perugia, Perugia (Italy), 17-19 February, abstract deadline 1 December.
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: visits to ALICE cavern are again possible between 8 December and 19 February.
- ALICE visits this week:
- Saturday 1st November 2025
- Liceo Scientifico Gobetti, Italy
- Tuesday 4 November 2025
- 3rd Lyceum of Kalamaria, Greece
- 12th Senior High School of Thessaloniki, Greece
- NEXT Sukkertoppen Gymnasium, Denmark
- Wednesday 5 November 2025
- Broman Students, Sweden
- École Européenne de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Thursday 6 November 2025
- TNG Team, Spain
- Europa2000 Gimnazium, Hungary
- Friday 7 November 2025
- 2nd General Lyceum of Chania, Greece
- GE Medical Systems, Switzerland; colleague’s friends, France
- Saturday 1st November 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.