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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
| 8 November - 6 December: Pb-Pb physics run 8 December: start of YETS 9 December at noon: End-of-Run party at Point 2 Visits to the ALICE cavern are possible between 8 December and 19 February (except from 20 December to 4 January) 10 December 2025 at 1 PM: Opening of the shift booking for 2026 |
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Recent PhD in ALICE: Congratulations to our new Doctor:
- Dr. Salman Kurshiki Malik
Thesis Title: An event-by-event study of local fluctuations in multiparticle production at ultra-relativistic energies
CDS Record: https://repository.cern/records/7g744-nmn45
Defense Date: 19 October 2025, University of Jammu
Supervisors: Prof. Ramni Gupta
Service Task: Quality control and performance monitoring for the TRD
- Dr. Salman Kurshiki Malik
- 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 flavour 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)
- QGP International Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Japan - kick-off Symposium: 25 Nov 2025 :
In July 2025, the QGP International Research Center was newly established at the University of Tsukuba as an academic hub for interdisciplinary research. The Center focuses on the study of the Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP) - with special emphasis on ALICE upgrade projects of FoCal and continuing to ALICE 3.
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- CERN Courier (Nov-Dec 2025), Energy Frontier: ALICE observes ρ–proton attraction
- "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)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- QTI Seminars, Friday 28 Nov 2025, 10:00: "Atoms from the cold: from the Measurement of Time to Quantum Computing" by Massimo Inguscio (UCBM Rome)
- "Light ion collisions at the LHC - 2025": 1–3 Dec 2025, CERN
- Strings Informal seminar, Tuesday 2 Dec 2025, 10:30: "Bouncing Off a Stringy Singularity" by Cristoforo Iossa
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 2 Dec 2025, 14:00: "Renormalons for string theorists" by Marcos Mariño (University of Geneva)
- Archives, Library and Open Science events, Wednesday 3 Dec 2025, 12:30: "Library Science Talk - The Future of Digital Archival Storage Technology" by Mark Lantz (IBM Research Lab)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 3 Dec 2025, 14:00: "The physics opportunities of light-ion collisions" by Aleksas Mazeliauskas (Heidelberg University (DE))
- A&T Seminar, Thursday 4 Dec 2025, 11:00: "MAD-NG, a standalone multi-platform tool for linear and non-linear optics design and optimisation" by Dr Laurent Deniau (CERN)
- QTI Seminars, Friday 5 Dec 2025, 10:00: "Superradiant interactions of cosmic relics and how to look for them" by Mario Galanis
- Detector Seminar, Friday 5 Dec 2025, 11:00: "Future Upgrades of the LHCb ECAL: the LS3 Enhancement and the PicoCal" by Loris Martinazzoli (CERN)
- BE Seminars, Friday 5 Dec 2025, 16:00: "Wakis: An open-source 3D time-domain electromagnetic solver for beam-coupling impedance simulations" by Elena De La Fuente Garcia (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (ES))
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:
- During the last week, Pb-Pb production continued with a mixed machine availability. On Friday and Saturday, a series of issues, including injector problems and a power cut in the Meyrin area, caused>24h of downtime.
- From Sunday on, the machine was running with better availability. Still, occasionally issues occurred, resulting in some downtime
- On Thursday, the polarity in the ALICE magnet was swapped. Before this, one filled with a low magnetic field of the solenoid at positive polarity was carried out.
- During the following days, production will continue. The MD period of 1.5 was moved to next week on Tuesday.
- ALICE continues taking data with a leveling of 23kHz. So far 0.900/nb were recorded of 0.948/nb delivered luminosity.
- Current Run Manager (24 Nov - 8 Dec): Michal Broz:
Michal Broz is a Physicist from CTU, Prague, and a specialist in ultraperipheral collisions and diffraction. He was convener of the UD PAG for Ultra peripheral collisions from 2016 to 2021 and convener of the PWG-UD from 2019 to 2021. During this period he was a member of the Physics board. In 2020 and 2021, during the critical phase of integration of detectors and final commissioning in preparation for RUN 3, he was FDD System Run Coordinator. Michal has a long-standing implication in operation at P2 as he holds the record of taking the maximum number of Shift Leader shifts in ALICE since SAMS is in place to collect the statistics. Since the beginning of Run 2, he has ensured two Run Manager mandates every year, including the critical Heavy Ion data taking.
During his mandate, Michal will take care about the second half of the Pb-Pb data taking.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 25th ZIMÁNYI WINTER WORKSHOP ON HEAVY ION PHYSICS,Budapest,Hungary, 1-5 December
- Light-ion collision workshop at CERN, CERN (Switzerland), 1-3 December
- 7th international workshop on new Photon-Detectors (PD2025) , Bologna, Italy, 3-5 December
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
Experimental overview from pp, pPb
+ possibility to submit abstracts for the 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.
- CPOD 2026 Workshop on Critical Point and Onset of deconfinement, CERN, 13-17 April, abstract deadline 1 December
- 28th Conference on Computing in High energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP2026), Bangkok, Thailand, 25-29 May, abstract deadline 19 November.
- 33rd International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2026), Bologna, Italy, 4-8 May 2026, application deadline: 15 Jan 2026
SCHOOLS
- Frontiers in Nuclear and Hadronic Physics 2026, Arcetri, FIrence, Italy, 16-28 Feb 2026, Application deadline: 18 Dec 2025
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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 22 November 2025
- Istituto Guglielmo Marconi, Italy
- Ashton Sixth Form College, UK
- colleagues’ friends, UK, France
- Monday 24 November 2025
- Professional visitors - SM3A, France
- Tuesday 25 November 2025
- Islington Collegiate Sixth Form, UK
- Wallington High School for girls, UK
- Wednesday 26 November 2025
- Neuchatel Junior College, Switzerland
- Kauno Jono Jablonskio Gimnazija, Lithuania
- EIC ePIC LFHCal Test Beam Participants, USA
- QBC Summit - ALICE, Switzerland
- Friday 28 November 2025
- colleague’s friends, Czech Republic
- colleague’s friends, Czech Republic
- Saturday 22 November 2025
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- Lead ion beams at the LHC
- 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.