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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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- "ALICE 3" Week: 4-8 May 2026: Please register by April 28 if you plan to participate in person. We need to count participants for the coffee breaks and the reception on Wednesday 6 May at R2.
- ALICE Physics Forum: LHCP approvals and HP early approvals / previews: 23 April - 4 May
- LHC RRB Meeting: 27-28 April 2026
- 7th ALICE Upgrade Week Calaserena Resort, Geremeas, Cagliari, 14-18 September 2026:
- ALICE UPC Workshop: Katowice, Poland, 15-19 June 2026
- ALICE Calendar 2026
- ALICE approvals calendar for 2026
- ALICE Breakthrough Prize PhD Grant 2026 (ALICE-BP-PhD-2026): Deadline: 30 April 2026
Contact: alice-breakthrough-grant-committee@cern.ch
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Watch Alex Kluge explaining the ALICE ITS3 in the YouTube video
- Big thanks to Marie Germain, who ended her mandate as the Chair of the Conference Committee at the end of March. Please continue to use the alice-cc-chairs@cern.ch address for communication which allows your messages to be processed more easily.
- Reminder from Conference Committee Chair: Please try to respect as closely as possible the deadlines for submission of abstracts of "at least 7 days prior to the submission deadline of the conference” according to the ALICE constitution. Recently we had abstracts only 1-2 days from the deadline which is not realistic for obtaining multiple approvals. Additionally Team Leader approval is a mandatory step.
- CERN Courier March-April 2026, Energy Frontier: The flavour dependence of jet structures
- "ALICE sees new sign of primordial plasma in proton collisions" 20 March 2026
- "Accelerator Report: Excellent performance at the LHC" By Matteo Solfaroli, Deputy Leader of the Operations Group (BE-OP)
- "A collective commitment to safety as LS3 approaches" By Mark Thomson & Benoît Delille
- "Inclusion Matters: CERN’s new participatory inclusion initiative" A new “Inclusion Matters.” initiative invites the CERN community to co-create 50 visible and tangible inclusion actions by 2030
- Girls in ICT at CERN on 25 April: Register now!
- "Taxation in France" 15 April 2026
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar, Friday 24 Apr 2026, 11:00: "Summary of the 8th Workshop on Medical Applications of Spectroscopic X-ray detectors" by Anthony Butler
- KT Seminars, Friday 24 Apr 2026, 11:00: "Latest development on spectroscopic X-ray imaging in medicine: SPECXRAY Workshop Summary" by Anthony Butler (University of Canterbury (NZ))
- BE Seminars, Friday 24 Apr 2026, 16:00: "Performance limitations due to beam-beam interactions and wakefields in high energy lepton colliders" by Roxana Soos
- QCD Seminar, Monday 27 Apr 2026, 14:00: "Studying the Infrared Behaviour of Improved Logarithmic Accuracy Parton Showers with Herwig" by Mike Seymour (The University of Manchester (GB))
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 28 Apr 2026, 11:00: "Nuclear cross sections at the frontier: from cosmic rays to spatially resolved nuclear structure with ATLAS" by Savannah Clawson (CERN), Benjamin Jacob Gilbert (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Laboratory (US))
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 28 Apr 2026, 14:00: "Counting AdS Vacua" by Prof. Alessandro Tomasiello (Milan Bicocca University)
- Lattice seminar, Tuesday 28 Apr 2026, 16:00: "The Truncated Hankel Correlator Method" by Johann Ostmeyer (University Bonn)
- "Steer Your Own Path: Resilience and mindset lessons from a 46,000 km bicycle journey around the world" 28 April 2026
- TH Cosmo Coffee, Wednesday 29 Apr 2026, 11:30: "Zero-temperature Baryon Number Violation from the dynamics of Standard Model electroweak textures" by Martina Cataldi (University of Hamburg)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 29 Apr 2026, 14:00: "LISA - Measuring Gravitational Waves in Space" by Dr Nora Lützgendorf (ESA - European Space Agency)
- "Hunting the Higgs" 29 April 2026, CERN Science Gateway
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 30 Apr 2026, 13:30: "A Cosmological Solution to the Doublet-Triplet Splitting Problem" by Pablo Sesma
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
- LHC and ALICE
- LHC continued with pp production at low mu. During the last weekend, the vdM programs of the different experiments have been completed. LHC then resumed the low-mu program at full machine, that was stopped for an access that took place on Thursday morning, and tests on RF at injection and loss maps for the 3-TeV cycle (the latter to be exploited during the high-intensity test) followed.
- ALICE continued with the data taking at 500 kHz with positive/positive magnet polarities. On Friday, April 17th the van der Meer scan for pp was successfully completed. During the vdM scans of the other experiments ALICE collected data at different mu values. In the next fills at full machine, some special runs requested by the lumi group to study the difference in efficiencies observed between FT0 and FDD have been collected. On Tuesday, a circuit break in a rack connected to the EMCAL prevented the calorimeter from being included in the data taking, and was eventually fixed during the access on Thursday morning. During the latter, the magnet polarities have been reverted to the negative/negative configuration.
- LHC continued with pp production at low mu. During the last weekend, the vdM programs of the different experiments have been completed. LHC then resumed the low-mu program at full machine, that was stopped for an access that took place on Thursday morning, and tests on RF at injection and loss maps for the 3-TeV cycle (the latter to be exploited during the high-intensity test) followed.
- Open shift blocks:
If you have any question about the training and, overall, on how to get ready to cover these earlier shifts do not hesitate to contact us (alice-rc@cern.ch). Dedicated trainings can be arranged.
- Urgent: a full (non expert) QC block starting on 9 May (MM-AA-NN)
- Expert ECS and QC blocks from 19 May
- Urgent: a full (non expert) QC block starting on 9 May (MM-AA-NN)
- Run Manager (20 Apr - 3 May 2026): Minjung Kim
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- The 7th Allpix Squared User Workshop, MBI, Vienna, 28-30 Apr 2026
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- QCD Evolution 2026 Workshop, El Escurial, Spain, 11-15 May, abstract deadline 30 April
- 4th Joint ECFA-NuPECC-APPEC Activity Workshop "Synergies between the EIC and the LHC", Cagliari, Italy, 8-10 June, abstract deadline 30 April
- QCD@Work 2026 - International Workshop on Quantum Chromodynamics - Theory and Experiment, Trani, Italy, 16-19 June, abstract deadline 30 April
- 17th Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum (QCHS26), Wrocław, Poland, 29 June - 4 July, abstract deadline 26 April
- Strong and Electro-Weak Matter 2026 (SEWM), Helsinki, Finland, 17-21 August, abstract deadline 30 April
- 9th Conference on Micropattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGD2026), Prague, Czechia, 31 August - 4 September, abstract deadline 24 April
- 23rd International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI), 6-10 Jul, abstract deadline 24 April
- ISMD 2026 (54th International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics), Chungli, Taiwan, 17-21 Aug, abstract deadline 15 May
- Many speaking opportunities for ALICE. Please contact CC chairs.
- Vertex 2026 in Stoos, Switzerland, 20–24 July, abstract deadline 15 May
- two invitations for talks on ITS2 operations and ITS3 sensor characterisation
- two invitations for talks on ITS2 operations and ITS3 sensor characterisation
- NSTAR 2026, Seville, Spain, 7-11 Sep, abstract deadline 30 Jun
SCHOOLS
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior Representatives (Bianca, Rohaan, Sara)
- 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.
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE visits this week:
- Saturday 18 April 2026
- Conseil Municipal Bonneville, France
- colleague’s friends, Italy
- Tuesday 21 April 2026
- 4th Senior High School of Patras, Greece
- VIP visit : Professor R. Nunung Nuryantono, Deputy Chairman for Development Policy,
- Wednesday 22 April 2026
- Carlo Cattaneo Torino, Italy
- Association Ukraine reborn, Ukraine
- Thursday 23 April 2026
- St Albans Independent College, UK
- VIP visit : His Excellency Professor Bonginkosi Emmanuel Nzimande, Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Republic of South Africa
- Friday 24 April 2026 Maricourt High School, UK
- Saturday 18 April 2026
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- ALICE ITS3 by Alexander Kluge
- ALICE observes partonic flow even in small colliding systems
- Do all jets lose energy in the same way?
- International Women’s Day, 8 March
- LHC Career Event: 17 Mar 2026
- ALICE 3 MID
- ALICE EMCal
- International Day of Women and Girls in Science
- Curiouser and curiouser: a riddle at the ALICE detector
DIVERSITY
- "E-learning course “Ethics at CERN” for all CERN personnel":
To ensure that everyone is aware of the guidelines of our ethical framework, the HR Department has developed an e-learning course entitled “Ethics at CERN”, which is available in English and French on the CERN Learning Hub. As of now, this course is mandatory for all members of the CERN personnel. Ethics at CERN
- "Inclusion Matters: CERN’s new participatory inclusion initiative" A new “Inclusion Matters.” initiative invites the CERN community to co-create 50 visible and tangible inclusion actions by 2030.
- 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.