Category: Newsletter
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Proto-DUNE at CERN: New technologies for new discoveries
Proto-DUNE at CERN: New technologies for new discoveries Following many years of R&D work, recent results from ProtoDUNE-SP, the single-phase DUNE Far Detector prototype at the CERN Neutrino Platform, now validate the Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber (LArTPC) technology choice for DUNE providing the necessary information for the DUNE Technical Design Report (TDR) [https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.03010] recently
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CHIPS: A new EP-ESE service for the HEP community
CHIPS: A new EP-ESE service for the HEP community ASIC technology and designs are becoming increasingly complex but bring potentially huge benefits to HEP experiments (see also previous EP article “A bright future for microelectronics“). Figure 1 summarises the evolution of CMOS technologies in the last decades, and their increasingly delayed adoption in HEP. Each
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A word from the Head of the EP department – April 2020
A word from the Head of the EP department – April 2020 Dear Colleagues, dear Members of the EP Department and CERN Users, I am writing this editorial while on telework from home. We are in an unprecedented situation, which would have been unimaginable only one month ago. In this month we have seen the
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Artificial neural networks shed light on rare SM processes.
Artificial neural networks shed light on rare SM processes. In a new paper released last month, the ATLAS Collaboration reported the observation of a single top quark produced in association with a Z boson (tZq) using the full Run-2 dataset, thereby confirming earlier results by ATLAS and CMS using smaller datasets. As reported in an
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ALPHA publishes first measurements of quantum effects in antimatter
ALPHA publishes first measurements of quantum effects in antimatter The ALPHA collaboration at CERN has reported the first measurements of fine structure effects and Lamb shift in the energy structure of antihydrogen that provide another test of comparison between antimatter and ordinary matter. The results, described in a paper published in Nature, show that these
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ISOLDE dives deeper in the mystery of the odd-even staggering effect
ISOLDE dives deeper in the mystery of the odd-even staggering effect In a recent paper, to appear in Nature Physics in the next weeks (arXiv:1911.08765v3), the CRIS collaboration, located at the ISOLDE facility in CERN, presents measurements of charge radii of exotic copper isotopes that shed further light on one of the most pertinent open
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Towards high-precision luminosity for CMS in Run 3 and beyond
Towards high-precision luminosity for CMS in Run 3 and beyond Luminosity is a key parameter for any collider-based high energy physics experiment as it links the interaction rates observed in an experiment to the cross sections of physics processes. Therefore, it is a key ingredient to most major analyses performed at an experiment and the
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FCC software workshops and hands-on tutorials
FCC software workshops and hands-on tutorials In October 2019, the first FCC Software Workshop and Hands-on Tutorial was held at CERN by the EP-SFT group in collaboration with the FCC study coordination group. Following its success a second edition was held during the last FCC physics workshop (January 2020). The purpose of these events is
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EP launches new R&D programme on Detector Technologies
EP launches new R&D programme on Detector Technologies Progress in fundamental physics calls for pushing the current state-of-the-art for detectors, and developing new technologies that would boost the efficiency while reducing the cost and the environmental impact of future experiments. For future experiment to continue playing their important role in scientific inquiry a solid programme
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Heterogeneous computing efforts for high-energy physics experiments
Heterogeneous computing efforts for high-energy physics experiments Substantial improvements to the current experiments at the LHC are underway, and new experiments are being proposed or discussed at future energy-frontier accelerators to answer fundamental questions in particle physics. At future hadron colliders, complex silicon vertex trackers (3D and 4D) and highly granular calorimeters must operate in
