The ALICE Newsletter No. 309
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No.309,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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Congratulations on the publication of: ALICE upgrades during the LHC Long Shutdown 2: Journal of Instrumentation 23 May 2024 |
- 158th LHCC Meeting - OPEN Session: 29 May 2024, Main Auditorium (CERN): The ALICE Status Report will be presented by Daiki Sekihata (University of Tokyo (JP)) at 9:30 AM
- SQM/LHCP 2024 rehearsals: 21-31 May 2024: Note that there are 3 different zoom rooms: 1 for plenaries, 2 for the parallel sessions!
- CERN 70th Anniversary Table Tennis Tournament: 27 May - 27 June
- ALICE Mini Week: 17-21 June 2024
- ALICE 3 Days: 24-26 June 2024
- ALICE Week: 8-12 July 2024
- ALICE Upgrade Week, 7-11 October 2024 at IFJ PAN, Krakow: The programme will mostly focus on ALICE 3 and it will include sessions on FoCal and ITS3 as well. Looking forward to a broad participation in Krakow!
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- ditorial board membership: EB members are in charge of reviewing papers, technical publications, and conference proceedings, as well as participating in the EB meetings. By the end of this year, we will have to replace two EB members. On this occasion, we would like to call for people with expertise in PWG-DQ, PWG-JE, and PWG-UD, as well as other areas of expertise. If you're interested in joining the EB, please do not hesitate to contact the EB Chairs before 1 June 2024. Please do not hesitate to contact the EB Chairs if you need further information.
- Conference Committee Membership: If you are interested in joining the Conference Committee for a mandate from December 2024 to November 2026, with PWG-CF expertise, contact CC Chairs before 1 June 2024.
- Shy charm mesons confound predictions: Report in CERN Courier (May-Jun 2024)
ALICE, for the first time, has measured the interaction of open-charm mesons (D+ and D*+) with charged pions and kaons for all the charge combinations. Read More ....
- New subdetectors to extend ALICE’s reach: Report in CERN Courier (May-Jun 2024). Read More ....
- ALICE Run 3 Analysis Resources: Our Junior colleagues have developed this new website which has 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.
- CERN70 Feature Series:
- Next Physics Forum Dates for 2024
- 19 June (during mini-week)
- 21 August (during Hard Probes previews)
- 2 October (extra-ordinary)
- 6 November (mini-week)
- 4 December (during physics week)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- Detector Seminar, Friday 24 May 2024, 11:00: "The electron-Proton and Ion Collider (ePIC) detector at the Electron Ion Collider (EIC)" by Silvia Dalla Torre (Universita e INFN Trieste (IT))
- QCD Seminars, Monday 27 May 2024, 14:00: "Muon-electron scattering at 10ppm" by Yannick Ulrich (Universitaet Bern (CH))
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 28 May 2024, 11:00: "Revealing the Potential of the Higgs field: Recent ATLAS Searches for Higgs Boson Pair Production" by Rui Zhang (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))
- CERN Lattice Coffee, Tuesday 28 May 2024, 16:00: "Towards the quark mass dependence of Tcc" by Saša Prelovšek
- ISOLDE Seminar, Tuesday 28 May 2024, 16:00: "Recent mass measurements with the JYFLTRAP double Penning Trap at IGISOL" by Arthur Jaries (University of Jyväskylä)
- Non-Perturbative and Topological Aspects of QCD: 29-30 May 2024
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 29 May 2024, 14:00, TH Conference Room (CERN): "Non-Perturbative and Topological Aspects of QCD" by Dmitri Kharzeev (Stony Brook U./BNL)
- CERN Colloquium, Thursday 30 May 2024, 16:30: "Quantum Gravity and Predictions for our Universe" by Cumrun Vafa (Harvard University)
- KT Seminars, Friday 31 May 2024, 13:30: "Global Health: Enhancing Access to Cancer Radiation Therapy" by Manjit Dosanjh (University of Oxford (GB)), Taofeeq Abdallah Ige (University of Abuja, NIGERIA)
NEW PAPERS ON THE ARXIV
All publications of the ALICE Collaboration submitted to Refereed Journals are in the link here.
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New ALICE paper submissions appear in twitter: ALICE_Publications
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
- Shift booking opportunities:
- SL Block: 22 June to 27 June
- SL Block: 4 July to 9 July
Shifts booking via SAMS.
- ALICE Run Manager (13 - 26 May): Minjung Kim
- LHC and P2 news:
- LHC:
During the past weekend, the LHC successfully completed the Van der Meer scan program for all experiments and resumed proton-proton physics production. Operations were interrupted on Tuesday due to a fault of the cryogenics compressors in sector 1-2, followed by large losses when going into collisions. Regular operations with stable beams have been finally resumed on Wednesday and will continue until the start of MD2 on 5 June. - P2 operations:
ALICE has successfully completed the proton-proton Van der Meer scans a top energy in the night between Saturday and Sunday. In preparation for the VdM fills, the solenoid and dipole magnets polarity was switched from negative to positive. The ZDC detector was successfully re-commissioned last Friday and included in the low-rate physics runs collected during the scan of the other experiments. After the completion of the Van der Meer scan program, we switched the magnets back to negative polarity and resumed physics production at 500 kHz visible interaction rate.
- LHC:
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- 16th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors : Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics, La Bodiola, Italy, 26 May-1 Jun
- FPCP, Flavour Physics and CP Violation Conference 2024, Bangkok, Thailand, 27-31 May
- QCD Evolution 2024, Pavia, Italie, 27-31 May
- International Workshop on Partial Wave Analyses and Advanced Tools for Hadron Spectroscopy (PWA13/ATHOS8) Williamsburg,Virginia, US, 28 May - 1 June
- Workshop on Non-perturbative and Topological Aspects of QCD, CERN, 29-30 May
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 5th International Conference on Beauty, Charm, Hyperons in Hadronic Interactions (BEACH 2024), Charleston, USA, 3-7June, abstract deadline 31 May
- Physics with high-luminosity proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC - Workshop, CERN, 4-5 July, abstract deadline 31 May
- 7th Workshop on Python in High Energy Physics (PyHEP2024), CERN, Online conference, 1-4 July, abstract deadline 31 May
- Exotic Hadron Spectroscopy 2024, Swansea, UK, 2-4 July, abstract deadline 22 May
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- 27th High-Energy Physics International Conference in Quantum Chromodynamis (QCD24), Montpellier, France, 8-12 Jul 2024, abstract deadline 31 May
- Synergies between LHC and EIC for quarkonium physics, ECT* Trento, Italy, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 14 June
- 8th International Conference on Chirality, Vorticity, and Magnetic Field in Quantum Matter, Timișoara, Romania, 22-26 July, abstract deadline 31 May
- BOOST2024, Genova,Italy, 29 Jul - 2 Aug. Abstract submission 19 May, Invitation to submit up to five talks and two posters. Please contact CC chairs.
- 16th Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum (Confinement XVI), Cairns, Australia, 19-24 August, abstract deadline 28 May.
- New Trends in High-Energy and Low-x Physics: New Trends in HEP, Sfantu Gheorge, Romania, 2 September, abstract deadline 16 June
- 12th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (HP2024), Nagasaki, Japan, 22-27 September, abstract deadline 25 May, Central submission except for posters (to be submitted by presenters)
- XVII international Conference on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors (RPC2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 9-13 Sep 2024, abstract deadline 1 June.
- Diffraction and Low-x 2024 conference, Palermo, Italy , 8-14 Sept 2024, abstract deadline 31 May, invitation for 4 parallel talks contact UD and Jet PWG conveneers
- ICNFP 2024 — International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics 2024, Kolymbary, Crete, 26 Aug - 5 Sep, abstract deadline 20 June
- CHEP2024, Krakov, Poland, 19-25 October, abstract deadline 17 May, contact Software/O2-PDP coordinator
- 8th International Conference on Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors, MPGD2024, Hefei, China, 14-18 Oct, abstract deadline 24 June.
- The 2024 international workshop on the high energy Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), Hangzhou, China, 23–27 Oct, abstract deadline 31 Jul 2024.
SCHOOLS
- Summer School "From Hadronic Structure to Heavy-Ion Collisions", Orsay, France, 9-15 June, registration deadline 31 Apr 2024
- 52nd SLAC Summer Institute (SSI2024), SLAC, USA, 5-16 August-2024, registration deadline 6 July
- 15th Thematic CERN School of Computing on Machine Learning, Split, Croatia, 12 October, registration deadline 19 June
- The International School “Francesco Romano” on Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics, Monopoli (Bari), Italy, 6-13 October, registration deadline 31 July 2024
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Special announcement and dates of major conferences in 2024
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Florian, Luca):
- ALICE Run 3 Analysis Resources: this has 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.
- ALICE Theses website
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis.
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE Visits this week:
- Saturday 18 May 2024 the 8th Secondary School in Gdansk, Poland
- Tuesday 21 May 2024 Colleague’s family, Italy
- Wednesday 22 May 2024 Haberdashers school for girls, UK
- Thursday 16 May 2024 Washington and Lee students, USA
- Friday 24 May 2024 Elekta service team, Austria
- Saturday 18 May 2024 the 8th Secondary School in Gdansk, Poland
- The ALICE Collaboration at CERN is on LinkedIn! Join us.
DIVERSITY
- ALICE Diversity Office website can be accessed here. Your feedback is extremely 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 link for details.