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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
Ongoing: Hard Probes 2026: 21-26 June 2026, Nashville, USA
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- ALICE Physics Forum (including ICHEP approvals), 1-3 July 2026
- ALICE Mini Week, 29 Jun - 3 July at CERN
- ALICE Week, 20-24 Jul 2026 at CERN
- 7th ALICE Upgrade Week: Calaserena Resort, Geremeas, Cagliari, 14-18 September 2026. REGISTRATION WITH REDUCED ACCOMMODATION PRICES STILL OPEN (DEADLINE: 30 JUNE)
- ALICE Physics Week 2026 in Wuhan, 12–16 Oct 2026. REGISTRATION OPEN!
- ALICE Calendar 2026
- ALICE approvals calendar for 2026
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NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
 CERN News: ALICE’s upgraded detector showcases its beauty |
- Final collisions, new horizons: After 12 years in operation, a record amount of data and thousands of scientific results, the LHC is taking a break. It will be transformed into the HiLumi LHC, a better-performing machine
- Jets boost nuclear coalescence: CERN Courier Energy Frontier Jun-Jul 202
- The CERN Council decided to update the European Strategy for Particle Physics
- "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
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- BE Seminars, Friday 26 Jun 2026, 16:00: "Crab Cavities in the HL-LHC: Beam Dynamics Challenges and Implications" by Andrea Fornara (CERN)
- Gearing up for Future Colliders — Workshop on Radiative Corrections at Future Lepton Colliders, 29 June 2026 to 3 July 2026, CERN
- Screening of the documentary film "Invisible Energy", Monday 29 Jun 2026, 19:00, Main Auditorium (CERN)
- EP Seminar, Tuesday 30 Jun 2026, 11:00: "Studying exotic nuclei at ISOLDE: what laser spectroscopy can tell us" by Jessica Warbinek (KU Leuven)
- CERN Industry Webinar - June'26, Tuesday 30 Jun 2026, 14:00
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 1 Jul 2026, 14:00: "The discovery potential of FCC-ee" by Gino Isidori (University of Zurich (CH))
- Collider Cross Talk, Thursday 2 Jul 2026, 11:00: "Higgs top coupling and CP measurement in the Higgs top sector" [ATLAS, THEORY]
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 is continuing with the High-Intensity tests, progressively increasing the current circulating in the machine with single or two beams, operating the 3 TeV and 6.8 TeV cycles. At the moment, among the limiting factors for further increasing the beam intensities toward the HL-LHC nominal values is the vacuum activity experienced at P2, for which a mitigation strategy must be identified during the LS3. Yesterday, the last collisions were provided at the different interaction points. During the weekend, LHC will proceed with the magnet quench tests.
- Monday at 6 a.m. Run 3 will be over! LS3 starts!
- ALICE is operating the FIT detector to provide luminosities to the LHC and to check the stability and feasibility of various separation levels at P2 for the different beam currents. In parallel, it is running tests on the software.
- LHC is continuing with the High-Intensity tests, progressively increasing the current circulating in the machine with single or two beams, operating the 3 TeV and 6.8 TeV cycles. At the moment, among the limiting factors for further increasing the beam intensities toward the HL-LHC nominal values is the vacuum activity experienced at P2, for which a mitigation strategy must be identified during the LS3. Yesterday, the last collisions were provided at the different interaction points. During the weekend, LHC will proceed with the magnet quench tests.
- Run Manager (15-20 June 2026): Sahil UPADHYAYA
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 17th Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum (QCHS26), 29 June - 4 July, Wroclaw, Poland
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- Strong and Electro-Weak Matter 2026, 17-21 Aug, Helsinki, Finland
- International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics 2026 (ISMD 2026), 19-21 Aug, Chungly, Taiwan
- Call open for plenary talks (deadline 11 Jul)
- Call open for plenary talks (deadline 11 Jul)
- 9th Conference on Micropattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGD2026), 31 Aug - 4 Sep, Prague, Czechia
- 14th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors (PSD14), 1-4 Sep, London, UK
- NSTAR 2026 - The 15th International Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons 7-11 Sep, Seville Spain
- 12th International Workshop on Semiconductor Pixel Detectors for Particles and Imaging PIXEL2026, 8-12 Sep, Miyazaki,Japan
- Emmi Workshop: Light Ion Collisions 2026, 21-25 Sep, Heidelberg, Germany
- Call open for overview talk on recent experimental results from light-ion collision systems + one to three abstracts for short contributions (deadline 1 Jul)
- Call open for overview talk on recent experimental results from light-ion collision systems + one to three abstracts for short contributions (deadline 1 Jul)
- 16th International QCD@LHC Workshop (QCD@LHC 2026) , 28 Sep - 2 Oct, Oxford, UK
SCHOOLS
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30 July - 5 Aug 2026 |
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21 - 27 Mar 2027 |
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior Representatives (Sara, Davide, Meiyi)
- "Supporting early careers beyond CERN"
- 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 Juniors website
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE visits this week:
- Saturday 20 June 2026
- European Education Centre, Georgia
- Tuesday 23 June 2026
- FluxSwiss Sagl, Switzerland
- Radnor House Twickenham, UK
- Stagiaires, France; Débat public français
- Thursday 25 June 2026
- Korean-KAIST, South Korea
- Press team visit from India
- Friday 26 June 2026
- Our Lady’s Grammar School, UK
- Procurech Region Ost, Switzerland
- ALICE member’s friend, Austria
- Saturday 20 June 2026
- Recent Social Media Highlights:
- Congratulations to Barbara Erazmus!
- LHC Live from ALICE
- Silvia on Social Media on the start of the heavy-ioin run!
- A new chapter of ALICE physics at LHCP 2026
- Building bridges towards ALICE 3: Japan
- Mexico in ALICE 3
- 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
DIVERSITY
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Building on the 25 by’25 momentum, the Diversity & Inclusion Programme has launched Inclusion Matters, featuring 50 Inc. — a plan to co-create 50 practical actions that improve inclusion over the next five years. Already, 20 proposals have been submitted, including ideas to improve accessibility, create quiet zones, increase women speakers at events, use more inclusive language, and visibly support the Pride community. Read more in the CERN Bulletin You can take part by submitting your own proposal or contacting the ALICE Diversity Office: alice-diversity-office@cern.ch |
- "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.
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Please refer to the Job Announcements page for details.