ALICE Newsletter No. 339
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ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS
Here's a glimpse at some of the ALICE stories featured in 2024!
The annual end-of-year break starts this weekend. We will take a break and the newsletter will be back in the new year.
We wish everyone a good start of 2025 and a restful break for those who also have holidays,
We wish everyone a good start of 2025 and a restful break for those who also have holidays,
— The Newsletter team
- ALICE Mini Week: 20 - 24 Jan 2025
- Town meeting: heavy ion and QGP physics at CERN, Monday 17 Feb 2025
- "ALICE 3" Days: 18 - 10 February 2025 at CERN
- ALICE Week: 17-21 March 2025
- Survey: The diversity office arranges different trainings that get good feedback! However the participation is not optimal, therefore we prepared survey to help us make better arrangements and develop new trainings. Please take 3-5 minutes to complete it: https://forms.gle/WwdjWCYzcAsWmMj56
NEWS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- CERN News: ALICE finds first ever evidence of the antimatter partner of hyperhelium-4
- Endorsement of the Collaboration Board:
Ionut Arsene (Oslo) as a new member of the Conference Committee
- Accelator report: A well-deserved winter break for the accelerator complex by Rende Steerenberg
- Updated schedule for CERN’s accelerators by Mike Lamont (4 Oct 2024)
- CERN Press Release: Particle physicists chart a course to the future (11 Oct 2024)
- CERN70 Feature Series:
- CERN70: Preparing for the future (12 Dec 2024)
- CERN70: Continuing CERN’s legacy of open science (29 Nov 2024)
- CERN70: From physics to medicine (14 Nov 2024)
- CERN70: Announcing the Higgs boson discovery (31 Oct 2024)
- CERN70 Feature: CERN70: Tasting the primordial soup by Jurgen Schukraft (18 Oct 2024)
- CERN70: Switching on the Large Hadron Collider (4 Oct 2024)
- CERN70: Superconductors accelerate progress (20 Sep 2024)
- CERN70: Into the antiworld (3 Sep 2024)
- CERN70: Where the Web was born… (20 Aug 2024)
- CERN70: Green light for LEP (31 Jul 2024)
- CERN70: The end of the alphabet (11 July 2024)
- CERN70: A two-stage rocket (27 June 2024)
- CERN70: A gargantuan discovery (13 June 2024)
- CERN70: The world’s first hadron collider (29 May 2024)
- CERN70: An electronic revolution (16 May 2024)
- CERN70: The nucleus as a laboratory (2 May 2024)
- CERN70: Tracing particles (26 Mar 2024)
- CERN70: The dark side of the muon (14 Mar 2024)
- CERN70: The heart of CERN’s accelerator chain (29 Feb 2024)
- CERN70: A first discovery (14 Feb 2024)
- CERN70: The Laboratory takes shape (1 Feb 2024)
- CERN70: Foundations for European science (18 Jan 2024)
EVENTS OF INTEREST
- CERN Directorate’s traditional new-year meeting with the personnel, on 14 January, starting at 10.00 a.m., in the Main Auditorium.
- "Nuclear Shape and BSM Searches at Colliders" 13 January 2025
- CERN Lattice Coffee, Tuesday 14 Jan 2025, 16:00: "Advances in spectral density estimations for lattice gauge theories" by Niccolò Forzano (Swansea)
- LHC Seminar, Tuesday 21 Jan 2025, 11:00: "ALICE"
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
- Year-End Technical Stop (YETS): 25 Nov 2024 to 12 Mar 2025
- Shift Booking for 2025 will be opened on Thursday 23 January at 1 PM (Geneva local time):
2025 will be a very challenging year with ~21 weeks of pp data taking, 1 week of p-O/O-O at the end of June, and 4 weeks of Heavy Ion run starting in the middle of November.
The shift booking for 2025 includes 4 periods:
- 24 March to 27 June 2025: shifts open to any member of the collaboration, reservation via SAMS.
- 28 June to 7 July 2025: O-O shifts, reserved to collaborators that are identified as "Experts" in SAMS.
- 8 July to 7 November 2025: shifts open to any member of the collaboration, reservation via SAMS.
- 8 November to 8 December 2025: Heavy Ion shifts, reserved to collaborators that are identified as "Experts" in SAMS.
Expert shifts: If you have experience as central shifter and are willing to commit for this exciting data taking period, but you are not yet identified as Expert for your preferred shift role, do not hesitate to contact us!
All information related to shifts and operations are described in the ALICE Operation Website.
CONFERENCES
CURRENT CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (starting this week)
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| The ALICE Conference committee would like to thank all the speakers, presenters, and everyone involved in the preparation of the presentations and final results delivered on behalf of ALICE throughout 2024. A total of around 350 talks and 120 posters were presented. Thanks to all for the huge work. We wish you a well-deserved end-of-year break! |
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES (events within 3 months or deadline within 1 month)
- DeSyt2025, LaboratoryNazionaliSud, Italy, 24-26 February, abstract deadline 20 December opportunities for detectors, upgrades
- XXXVIII Rencontres de Physique de La Vallée d'Aoste, LaThuile2025, La Thuile, Italy, 9 March, abstract deadline 24 January, Invitation for 20’ plenary talk: "Newest physics results from ALICE » contact CC chairs
- Fragmentation in the collider precision era, Zurich, Switzerland, 17-19 March, abstract deadline 31 Jan. Invitation for an overview talk of measurements with identified light of heavy hadrons in ALICE (contact CC)
- 32nd International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2025), Cape Town, South Africa, 24 March, abstract deadline 15 Jan
- HADRON 2025 — 21st International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy and Structure, Osaka, Japan, 27 March, abstract deadline 15 Jan
- Moriond/QCD2025: 59th Rencontres de Moriond on "QCD & High Energy Interactions", La Thuile (Italy), 29 March, abstract deadline 19 January, central talk preparation (6 talks), contact conveners
- 2nd International Workshop on the Physics of Ultra Peripheral Collisions (UPC2025), Saariselkä, Finland , 9 June, abstract deadline 2 February INVITATION for a plenary talk (overview of ALICE UPC results contact CC chairs ) + possibilities to submit parallel talks
- 11th International Conference on Physics Opportunities at an Electron-Ion Collider (POETIC XI), Miami, Florida, United States, 24-28 February 2025. Abstract deadline 10 Jan 2025
- Hot Quarks 2025 Hefei, China , 12 May, Invitation to submit abstracts to young speakers
- Hadron in Nucleus 2025 (HIN25), 2–4 Apr 2025, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, abstract deadline: 31Jan 2025
SCHOOLS
- 2025 CERN Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics, Quesada, Costa Rica, 30 April to 13 May, Application deadline: 10 January 2025
- 16th Thematic CERN School of Computing (tCSC security 2025), Abingdon, UK, 6-12 April, Application deadline: 31 January 2025
UPCOMING CONFERENCES
Dates of upcoming major conferences
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JUNIOR'S CORNER
- Message from Junior representatives (Bianca, Florian, Rohaan):
- 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.
- ALICE Theses website
- Guidelines for ALICE Thesis Video: a ~3 min video summarizing the key results of PhD thesis.
OUTREACH NEWS
- ALICE underground visits from 25 Nov 2024 (14:00) to 27 Mar 2025 (12:00)
Contact the ALICE visits team for any questions!
- ALICE Visits this week:
- Saturday 14 December 2024
- Watford Grammar School for Girls, UK
- colleague’s friends, Italy, France
- Sunday 15 December 2024
- ALICE member’s friends, India
- Monday 16 December 2024
- Arts@CERN: Alice Bucknell
- ALICE member’s friends, Ukraine
- Tuesday 17 December 2024
- colleague’s friends, UK; visitor from Slovakia
- Vassiliadis High School, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Wednesday 18 December 2024
- Oeiras International School, Portugal
- Thursday 19 December 2024
- 3M7 school, Switzerland
- ALICE member’s friends, South Korea
- CERN Council chair
- Friday 20 December 2024
- IIS Luigi Einaudi Siracusa, Italy
- IIS Luigi Einaudi Siracusa, Italy
- Saturday 14 December 2024
- ALICE virtual visit
- Friday 13 December 2024 Virtual visit of the ALICE cavern, exhibition and Control Room for Swedish High Schools
- Friday 13 December 2024 Virtual visit of the ALICE cavern, exhibition and Control Room for Swedish High Schools
Recent Social Media Highlights:
Early Morning Coffee at CERN podcast Episode 3:
Turning lead into primordial soup with Marco Van Leeuwen
- Instagram Live from ALICE cavern with Jiyoung Kim, Kai Schweda, and Simone Ragoni
- QGP at 50: Facebook, X/Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram
- A successful physics season with Kai Schweda: Facebook, X/Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram
- Getting Ready for Heavy Ions Video with Andrea Ferrero, Robert Munzer and Meike Danish: Facebook, X/Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram
- #AskAPhysicist series on CERN Social Media - video part 3 with Chiara Pinto, Tulika Tripathy and Ananya Rai: facebook, X/Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram
- #AskAPhysicist series on CERN Social Media - video part 2 with Chiara Pinto, Tulika Tripathy and Ananya Rai: facebook, X/Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram
- #AskAPhysicist series on CERN Social Media - video part 1 with Chiara Pinto, Tulika Tripathy and Ananya Rai: facebook, X/Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram
- True or False: heavy-ion edition with Marco Van Leeuwen: facebook, X/Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram
- Heavy-ion run at the LHC begins: Facebook, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram
- VIP visits to ALICE on 1 October 2024 (CERN 70)
- Happy 70th anniversary CERN
- ALICE Probes the strong interaction three-body probelm
- We reached 500
- 🎶The ALICE experiment is red, Our magnets are blue, It’s CERN's birthday, And we want to celebrate with you🎶
- Can you guess their profession (Tapan)?
DIVERSITY
- CERN mobility survey (deadline: 6 Dec): Please take 1 minute of your time to complete the survey: 7 quick questions to help continuous improvement of CERN’s mobility infrastructure and calculate associated emissions for the next Environment Report.
- CERN Staff Association launches a new Working Group to drive diversity, equity and inclusion
- New webpage on ethics at CERN
- 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 Job Announcements link for details.
Have a nice weekend and a great week ahead!