Category: Newsletter
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New Nominations
New Nominations Niels Dupont Sagorin – New Deputy Departmental Safety Officer.
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Three Natures in the ISOLDE hand
Three Natures in the ISOLDE hand The radioactive beam facility at CERN, ISOLDE(1) has pioneered many achievements both at the level of designing new devices and of producing frontier Physics. These demarches have been crowned by a series of papers in Nature and Nature communication published within a month. BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url
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Workshop: Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with Planck
Workshop: Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with Planck Over the next two weeks, the Theory Unit will host a workshop in "Cosmology and Fundamental Physics with Planck" from 17 to 28 June. During the workshop implications of the first cosmology results from Planck will be discussed following the first cosmological data release. The list of speakers
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Discreteness and determinism in superstring theory
Discreteness and determinism in superstring theory Superstring Theory is mathematically equivalent to a completely deterministic automaton,yet the world it describes appears to be quantum mechanical. In his seminar, Gerardus 't Hooft (Utrecht University) discussed how can we reconcile these apparently conflicting observations, and invited us to think "What would John Bell have to say about
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From Space to Earth – Spaceflight for new Knowledge and Innovations
From Space to Earth – Spaceflight for new Knowledge and Innovations In his presentation, titled "From Space to Earth – Spaceflight for new Knowledge and Innovations", Prof. Ernst Messerschmid (Universität Stuttgart, IRS Astronautik und Raumstationen) shared his own spaceflight experienceon the U.S. Space Shuttle Challenger in 1985 for the German Spacelab D1 Mission. He illustrated
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The Infinity Puzzle – The story of the Higgs Boson:From QED to the LHC via Higgs and the Gang of Six
The Infinity Puzzle – The story of the Higgs Boson:From QED to the LHC via Higgs and the Gang of Six Frank Close delivered a talk about his book The Infinity Puzzle (http://www.infinitypuzzlebook.com/) that covers the history of 50 years of particle physics, the emergence of the Standard Model realizing the unification of the weak
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Diversity in action, Interactive Workshop
Diversity in action, Interactive Workshop Come and take part in an interactive workshop organised by the CERN Diversity Programme designed to creatively explore the meaning of diversity and share your experience of working with differences at CERN. Thursday, 4th July 2013 – 1.30pm – 5.30pm Pump Hall – Building 216-R-401 "Diversity in Action" is an
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SPS shutdown sends test beam research to DESY
SPS shutdown sends test beam research to DESY Last week, four members of the CERN LCD group traveled to DESY, Hamburg, to test data acquisition methods for a Timepix pixel detector. It's unusual for CERN groups to have to travel to perform a test beam, but with the PS and SPS out of action for
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The CLOUD Experiment
The CLOUD Experiment CLOUD Collaboration: Aerodyne Research Inc., Billerica, Massachusetts 01821, USA California Institute of Technology, Div. of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890, USA CERN, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland Finnish Meteorological Institute, FI-00101 Helsinki, Finland Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Institute for Atmospheric and
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The RD51 Collaboration: Development of Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors Technologies
The RD51 Collaboration: Development of Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors Technologies Advances in photo-lithography and micro processing techniques during the past decade triggered a major transition from wire chambers to micro-pattern gas amplification devices such as GEM and MicroMegas. Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors offer unprecedented spatial resolution, high rate capability, large sensitive area, operational stability and radiation hardness.