Category: Newsletter
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Designing pixel readout chips at CERN: From dream to reality.
Designing pixel readout chips at CERN: From dream to reality. Back in the 1980s, Erik Heijne at CERN envisioned that the then fledgling integrated circuit technologies could be employed to create a novel radiation detector. His vision was that all the electronics needed for processing signals from a radiation sensor could fit into 1 mm
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Editorial – October 2013
Editorial – October 2013 Dear Colleagues, The award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to F.Englert and P.Higgs “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and
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Winners of the “2013 CERN OpenDays” photo contest
Winners of the "2013 CERN OpenDays" photo contest CERN’s Photo Club, worked closely with the organizing team of the CERN Open Days, to organize a photo competition with “CERN Open Days 2013” as the main theme. The competition lasted from 28 of September to 11 of October and the winners were announced earlier last week.
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Concrete Quarks: The Beginning of the End
Concrete Quarks: The Beginning of the End In his talk, George Zweig, reviewed the events that lead to the discovery, and eventual acceptance, of concrete quarks. You can watch his talk here.
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New Committee for Summer Student’s Lectures Programme
New Committee for Summer Student's Lectures Programme The composition of the committee of the Summer Student's Lecture Programme committee has been modified: new members are: Emmanuelle Perez (CMS) who becomes also the chairman of the committee, Richard Hawkings (ATLAS) and Andreas Weiler (TH). They will join Peter Skands (TH), Roger Bailey (Accelerators), Markus Schulz (IT)
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HEFT2013 Workshop
HEFT2013 Workshop A workshop on Higgs Field Effective Theories (HEFT2013) was held earlier this month in the Theory Division. The aim of the workshop was to gather experts, working in different institutes around the world, to discuss the current state of the art in Effective Field Theory approaches to the Higgs sectors. The workshop was
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4 pillars of wisdom: CERN technologies find medical applications
4 pillars of wisdom: CERN technologies find medical applications State-of-the-art techniques borrowed from particle accelerators, detectors, and physics computing are increasingly used in the medical field for the early diagnosis and treatment of tumours and other diseases. But an essential ingredient to catalyse successful multidisciplinary ventures is the collaborative spirit that is a core value
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Physics, biology and medicine for better healthcare: ICTR-PHE 2014
Physics, biology and medicine for better healthcare: ICTR-PHE 2014 The upcoming ICTR-PHE conference will be held from 10-14 February 2014 at the International Conference Centre of Geneva (CICG). This event is a joint conference that attracts experts in physics, engineering, medicine, computer science and biology, creating a unique opportunity to discuss the latest advances in
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New light from CLOUD on climate change
New light from CLOUD on climate change In a paper published in the journal Nature, the CLOUD experiment at CERN reports on a major advance towards solving a long-standing enigma in climate science: how do aerosol particles form in the atmosphere? It is known that all cloud droplets form on aerosols: tiny solid or liquid
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PH participates in 2013 CERN OpenDays
PH participates in 2013 CERN OpenDays CERN Open Days – how was it for you ? Over 70,000 visitors and volunteers swarmed over the Meyrin and Prévessin sites as well as the various LHC points during the last weekend in September. The 2013 Open Days were organised in a spirit of exchange and sharing around