Category: Newsletter
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Google Summer of Code brings Students to HEP Software Projects
Google Summer of Code brings Students to HEP Software Projects Google Summer of Code is a programme that brings together students wanting to code for Open Source software projects and mentors who can introduce them to exciting projects and the full software development cycle. As a major supporter of Open Source software the EP-SFT group
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System-on-Chip in Particle Physics Experiments
System-on-Chip in Particle Physics Experiments Many experiments in particle physics use custom-built electronics boards in order to perform event triggering and data readout. For many years now, those electronics boards have been using Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for processing data. An FPGA is a type of integrated circuit that is reconfigurable and that provides fast
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ATLAS New Small Wheel upgrade advances
ATLAS New Small Wheel upgrade advances Group photo after the installation of the last sector of NSW-A. On the right is NSW-C with the first three sectors installed at the time. The New Small Wheel (NSW) upgrade is an ambitious project that aims to allow, along with other upgrade projects, to track and record data
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Successful installation of the CMS Pixel Tracker
Successful installation of the CMS Pixel Tracker In early 2019 the CMS Phase-1 Pixel detector was extracted from the underground cavern after successful completion of the LHC Run 2 data taking campaign. Its sub-detectors, the Barrel Pixel (BPIX) and Forward Pixel (FPIX) detectors, were stored cool and dry in a clean room facility on the
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Cooling a particle from a trap away
Cooling a particle from a trap away The BASE experiment, located at CERN’s Antiproton Deccelerator (AD) performs some of the most precise measurements with antimatter in the world – namely measuring the magnetic moment and charge-to-mass ratio of a single trapped antiproton. With these measurements, BASE, along with other experiments at the AD, is attempting
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Installation of the critical first half of the LHCb SciFi detector progresses
Installation of the critical first half of the LHCb SciFi detector progresses The LHCb SciFi tracker is the replacement of the Outer Tracker (based on gas straw tubes) and the Inner Tracker (Silicon microstrips) by a single detector technology (see also a previous EP newsletter article and a CERN Courier article). The detector consists of
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The new ALICE Fast Interaction Trigger
The new ALICE Fast Interaction Trigger To reach Run 3 physics goals, ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) [1] must collect all minimum-bias data for an interaction rate (i.e., number of collisions each second) of 50 kHz for Pb–Pb and up to 1 MHz for pp collisions. This is two orders of magnitude greater than
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AWAKE gears up for its Second Run
AWAKE gears up for its Second Run CERN’s Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) proved an excellent opportunity for the Advanced Wakefield (AWAKE) experiment to consolidate its plans and prepare for its second run following the successful results from Run 1. We met with Giovanni Zevi Della Porta, the run coordinator, to discuss the lessons carried forward
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CERN’s irradiation facilities eye to the future
CERN's irradiation facilities eye to the future CERN operates several unique in-house radiation-test facilities and makes use of a broad variety of external facilities to satisfy the needs of users from experiments and equipment groups in the Research and Computing (RCS) and Accelerators and Technology (ATS) sectors. To assess the current facilities and testing needs,
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The installation of the beam pipe at the heart of the CMS experiment
The installation of the beam pipe at the heart of the CMS experiment After several years of complex design, manufacture and planning, the CMS collaboration, in tight cooperation with experts of the CERN Technology Department-Vacuum, Surfaces, and Coating group, have been installing the new heart of the detector, the beam pipe, over the last months.