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No.384,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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- 164th LHCC Meeting - OPEN Session: 17 Nov 2025, 14:30, Council Chamber (CERN): "ALICE Status Report" will be presented by Robert Helmut Munzer (Goethe University Frankfurt (DE)) at 15:00 hrs.
- ALICE Week: 8-12 Dec 2025 at CERN
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
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- Call for plenary speaker nominations (3 talks):
Please provide your nominations to alice-cc-chairs@cern.ch by 5 December. Self-nominations are welcome. Please include a brief motivation in support of your suggestions.
- SQM2026 (22-27 March, Los Angeles, CA)
- Light flavours measurements in ALICE
- Heavy flavour measurements in ALICE
- ICHEP2026 (30 July - 5 August, Natal, Brazil)
- Overview of Heavy Ion measurements (multi-experimental talk)
Given the broad scope of the audience for this conference, it is important to select a speaker who can effectively communicate highlights to particle physicists from various subfields, and has a large expertise covering the whole Heavy ion field for all experiments. The nature of this talk differs from those tailored to more specialized audiences, such as those at SQM.
- Overview of Heavy Ion measurements (multi-experimental talk)
- SQM2026 (22-27 March, Los Angeles, CA)
- ALICE Calendar 2026
- "Why we need a CERN-wide AI strategy" Joachim Mnich, Director for Research and Computing, CERN (13 Nov 2025)
- "Accelerator Report: 2025 is another record-breaking year for protons in the LHC" By Rende Steerenberg (12 Nov 2025)
The 2025 LHC proton run has come to a close, with record performance delivered to all experiments. The LHC now gears up for the upcoming lead-ion run.
- "CERN accelerates medical applications" By Amedeo Habsburg
- Physics Forum dates in 2025:
- 3 December (extraordinary)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- "17th edition of the Quarkonium Working Group Workshop": 17-21 Nov 2025
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 18 Nov 2025, 11:00: "Combination of heavy resonance searches with CMS" by Sitian Qian (Peking University (CN))
- Lattice seminar, Tuesday 18 Nov 2025, 16:00: "Diffusion models for lattice field theory" by Prof. Gert Aarts (Swansea University)
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 20 Nov 2025, 11:00: "top quark pair production in PbPb [CMS, TH]" by Andre Govinda Stahl (CERN), Liliana Apolinario (LIP (PT))
- Detector Seminar, Friday 21 Nov 2025, 11:00: "Timepix and Medipix: an overview of recent progress and some lessons learned" by Michael Campbell (CERN)
- BE Seminars, Friday 21 Nov 2025, 16:00: "Metamaterial absorbers for beam-coupling impedance mitigation" by Leonardo Sito (Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (IT))
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):
- QC Expert: 5.12 - 7.12
- QC Expert: 5.12 - 7.12
- LHC and ALICE:
- Last Saturday, the Pb-Pb commissioning started and advanced quite well during the weekend.
- On Sunday, background tests with Pb-Pb beams were carried out. The test revealed a similar background level at P2 as in 2024. Also, with a low solenoid field, the background situation was stable.
- On Monday morning, a technical stop started and lasted till late Wednesday afternoon. During those days, several detector maintenance tasks in preparation for the Pb-Pb period were carried out.
- On Wednesday afternoon, Pb-Pb commissioning continued. First stable beams are expected on Friday. During the weekend, the vdM scans at all IPs are scheduled.
- Last Saturday, the Pb-Pb commissioning started and advanced quite well during the weekend.
- Current Run Manager (10-23): Luca Quaglia:
Luca is a post-doc in the Torino ALICE group and is currently also employed as an academic guest at ETH Zurich. He is a specialist in the MID gas system and a member of PWG-DQ. He defended his thesis in April 2023 on the development of eco-friendly gas mixtures for Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC), and he is currently the ALICE representative for the EcoGas@GIF++ collaboration and a member of the DRD1 collaboration. Moreover, he is in charge of a service-work task to extract the MID efficiencies and store the results in the CCDB, to improve the accuracy of the Monte Carlo simulations.Luca has also been one of the ALICE Junior Representatives between March 2022 and July 2024, and therefore was a member of the Collaboration Board. As far as operations at Point 2 are concerned, Luca is a very experienced Shift Leader and Run Manager, having already covered many shifts and RM blocks in Run 3.
During his mandate this year, he will follow the start of this year’s Pb-Pb data taking, with the intensity ramp-up.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- The 14th international "Hiroshima" Symposium on the Development and Application of Semiconductor Tracking Detectors (HSTD-14), Taipei, 16-21 November
- 1st PhyStat School of Statistics Statistics in the era of Machine Learning" The Netherlands., 17-21 November
- 17th Meeting of the Quarkonium Working Group (QWG 2025), CERN, 17-21 November
- 13th ROOT Users Workshop (ROOT 2025), Valencia, Spain, 17-21 November
- Second International Conference on the Physics of Two Infinities, Tokyo, Japan, 17-21 November
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 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.
- 28th Conference on Computing in High energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP2026), Bangkok, Thailand, 25-29 May, abstract deadline 19 November,
SCHOOLS
- None
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22-27 Mar 2026 |
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18-22 May 2026 |
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21-26 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 8 November 2025
- Ghent University, Belgium
- colleagues’ friends, Spain, Switzerland
- Tuesday 11 November 2025
- ITIS Enrico Fermi, Italy
- APEGE Association des pensionnes de l'Etat de Genève, Switzerland
- Wednesday 12 November 2025
- Association des professeurs honoraires de la HEIG VD, Switzerland
- Thursday 13 November 2025
- Police, Switzerland
- Lycée Jules Haag, France
- VIP visit:
- Her Excellency Dr Katarzyna Lubnauer, Secretary of State, Ministry of National Education
- Saturday 8 November 2025
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- Observation of an attraction between a proton and a ρ⁰ (rho) meson
- 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.