The ALICE Newsletter No. 307
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No.307,
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
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New subdetectors to extend ALICE's reach Shy charm mesons confound predictionsCERN
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NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- 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.
- Accelerator Report: Keeping cool and adapting to challenges
- Ultra-peripheral conference debuts in Mexico: Report in CERN Courier May-June 2024
- Balancing matter and antimatter in Pb–Pb collisions: CERN Courier Energy Frontier March - April 2024
- 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:
- CERN LHCC and Research Board approve FoCal and ITS 3 projects:
- 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
- Eurovision Song Contest 2024 Public Screening, 11 May 2024, 19:30, Main Auditorium (CERN)
- QCD Seminars, Monday 13 May 2024, 14:00 "NNLO Matching in VINCIA" by Prof. Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))
- TH String Theory Seminar, Tuesday 14 May 2024, 15:00: "Subregion independence in gravity" by Aasmund Folkestad (MIT)
- Theory Colloquia, Wednesday 15 May 2024, 14:00 by Clara Murgui
- CineGlobe 2024 - Opening night: Universe in a Grain of Sand, 15 May 2024
- TH BSM Forum, Thursday 16 May 2024, 13:30: "Topological portal to the dark sector" by Admir Greljo (Universitaet Basel (CH))
- Detector Seminar, Friday 17 May 2024, 11:00: "The Detector Configuration of the ATLAS experiment for Run3 of the LHC" by Clement Camincher (University of Victoria (CA)), Paolo Iengo (INFN)
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 blocks (2 blocks): (1) 21-26 May and (2) 26 June to 1 July
Shifts booking via SAMS.
- The new shift schedule, with the additional proton-proton shift blocks as well as the shifted heavy-ion period, is open for booking to the whole collaboration.
- ALICE Run Manager (29 April - 12 May 2024): Daiki Sekihata
- LHC and P2 news:
- LHC operations:
The LHC is regularly providing stable beams with 2352 colliding bunches, for proton-proton physics production. During the past week, the machine efficiency in stable beams was around 65%. Operations were paused for access on Monday morning for machine, detector activities and a VIP visit. On Wednesday the operation was interrupted by a problem with the cryo compressor at p6. The recovery could be done much faster than originally anticipated and physics production could be continued the same day. Next Monday MD 1 is scheduled for 3 days followed by Van Der Meer scans of all experiments. - P2 operations:
ALICE continues to collect data for proton-proton physics production at 500 kHz. On Monday we performed the regular software upgrade and validation, taking advantage of the access. The data-taking efficiency during the last week was above 90%, with all detectors regularly taking part in the physics runs.
A new record for the data-taking efficiency (99.5%) was reached in one fill during the last weekend.
- LHC operations:
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
- INFN School of Statistics, Paestum, Italy, 12-18 May
- Joint Meeting of APS Division of Particles & Fields and the Phenomenology Symposium (DPF-Pheno 2024), Pittsburgh, 13-17 May
- Corfu Workshop on Future Accelerators (CORFU2024), Corfu, Greece, 19-26 May
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- 15th International Conference on Beauty, Charm, Hyperons in Hadronic Interactions (BEACH 2024), Charleston, USA, 3-7June, abstract deadline 31 May
- QCD@Work 2024, Trani, Italy, 18-21 June, abstract deadline 15 May. possibility of a few ALICE talks in parallel sessions contact PWG conveners
- 7th Workshop on Python in High Energy Physics (PyHEP2024), CERN, Online conference, 1-4 July, abstract deadline 17 May
- Exotic Hadron Spectroscopy 2024, Swansea, UK, 2-4 July, abstract deadline 15 May
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- Synergies between LHC and EIC for quarkonium physics, ECT* Trento, Italy, 8-12 July, abstract deadline 14 June
- CAARI-SNEAP conference, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, 21-26 July, Invitation for 1 abstract in parallel session in session: Latest progress in high energy nuclear physics and the future Electron-Ion Collider opportunity.
- 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 31 May.
- 11th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics (CD24), Bochum, Germany, 26-30 August, abstract deadline 15 May
- New Trends in High-Energy and Low-x Physics: New Trends in HEP, Sfantu Gheorge, Romania, 2 September, abstract deadline 31 May
- ISNS-24 — International Symposium on Nuclear Science, Sofia, Bulgaria, 9-13 September, abstract deadline 15 May
- 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.
- ICNFP 2024 — International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics 2024, Kolymbary, Crete, 26 Aug - 5 Sep, abstract deadline 30 May
- ISNS-24 — International Symposium on Nuclear Science Sofia, Bulgaria, 9-13 September, abstract deadline 15 May
- CHEP2024, Krakov, Poland, 19-25 October, abstract deadline 17 May
- 2024 IEEE NSS MIC RTSD, Miami, Florida, USA, 26 October - 2 November, abstract deadline 7 May
- 8th International Conference on Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors, MPGD2024, Hefei, China, 14-18 Oct, abstract deadline 24 June.
- 27th High-Energy Physics International Conference in Quantum Chromodynamis (QCD24), Montpellier, France, 8-12 Jul 2024
SCHOOLS
- 15th Trans-European School of High Energy Physics, Bezmiechowa Gorna, Poland, 11-20 July, registration deadline 31-Apr-2024
- GRASPA 2024 Summer School in Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Annecy, France, 16-23 July, registration deadline 10 May
- 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 (Carolina, Florian, Luca):
- LHC Job Matching Event (JMEv), 14 May 2024: Organized by the LHC Early Career Scientist Fora (LHC ECSF), the event aims to bring early career researchers and recruiters together to discuss open academic job positions on a LHC experiment. Furthermore, the event will include motivational talks from two academic and one non-academic speakers. The event registration for recruiters is open. For job seekers, the registrations will be opened in mid-April.
- If you are an early career researcher, looking for a position in HEP at a LHC experiment, you can register from mid-April using the Job Seeker's Registration Form.
- If you are a senior member of an LHC experiment, offering a position, and looking for candidates, you can register now using the Recruiters' Registration Form.
- ALICE Run 3 Analysis Resources: 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 who are 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 4 May 2024 Guests from Parma, Italy
- Tuesday 7 May 2024 Liceo Gramsci, Italy
- Wednesday 8 May 2024 Secondary School, Poland
- Friday 10 May 2024
- Gymnazium Partizanske, Slovakia
- Georgia IB MTIEBI, Georgia
- 27th IPPOG Collaboration Meeting took place from 22 - 25 April 2024 at CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain
- The ALICE Collaboration at CERN is now 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.