Category: Newsletter
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POLAR-2 project enters final design stage
POLAR-2 project enters final design stage The POLAR-2 project is a follow-up of the POLAR mission that was launched in 2016, mounted on the exterior of the Chinese Spacelab Tiangong-2. Following its application to the Recognized Experiment Committee earlier this year, it has been recommended to be granted CERN Recognized Experiment status. The POLAR instrument
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MUonE experiment gears up to chase whiff of new physics
MUonE experiment gears up to chase whiff of new physics A new proposed project, MUonE, was described on the EP Newsletter few months ago [2]. It is an experiment aiming at helping in understanding the long-standing discrepancy between the experimental value and the Standard Model (SM) prediction of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon,
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A voice from Early-Career Researchers
A voice from Early-Career Researchers Any post-LHC collider, starting operations around late 2030s, would be an inter-generational project and thus it is vital to include the voices of young researchers in the decision making process. Studies planning for a next-generation collider strive to create a global vision for a "sustainable, innovative and diverse" research infrastructure,
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ATLAS and CMS joint bootcamp for analysis preservation
ATLAS and CMS joint bootcamp for analysis preservation Last month, 30 young graduate students and postdocs gathered at CERN to attend the first joint ATLAS+CMS analysis preservation bootcamp, organised by Sam Meehan, Clemens Lange, Lukas Heinrich (CERN), and Savannah Thais (Princeton). Over the course of three days, the workshop participants learnt through hands-on tutorials and
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Deep Neural Networks for particle reconstruction in high-granularity calorimeters
Deep Neural Networks for particle reconstruction in high-granularity calorimeters Precision measurements in high energy physics as well as an increasing amount of searches for new phenomena rely on a precise reconstruction of the event that caused a particular signature in the detector. Particle flow algorithms [1, 2, 3, 4] aim to identify individual particles before
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Civil engineering for FASER
Civil engineering for FASER Civil engineering work to enable the installation of the FASER experiment in TI12, which is the former LEP injection tunnel from the SPS, successfully completed this month. The FASER experiment is designed to detect new physics particles produced by the LHC at Point 1. To detect any long-lived weakly interacting particles
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FASERν: looking for high-energy collider neutrinos
FASERν: looking for high-energy collider neutrinos In December 2019 a proposed upgrade of the FASER detector designed to study neutrinos at the LHC was approved by CERN. The new detector called FASERν will be placed in front of the main FASER detector, 480-m in front of the ATLAS collision point, and exactly aligned with the
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Using 3D printing techniques for future neutrino detectors
Using 3D printing techniques for future neutrino detectors Plastic scintillator is one of the most used active materials in high-energy physics. A charged particle crossing a plastic scintillator loses part of its initial energy and produces a quantity of scintillation light that depends on its energy and type. This property allows using this technology for
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You have to love the penguins
You have to love the penguins In 1977 John Ellis made a bet with a student, Melissa Franklin, “If you lose this game of darts,” Franklin said, “you have to use the word ‘penguin’ in your next paper.” John Ellis lost and as a result he coined the term Penguin decays while investigating charge-parity violation
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Upgrade of the EP Irradiation Facilities: The Gamma Irradiation Facility GIF++
Upgrade of the EP Irradiation Facilities: The Gamma Irradiation Facility GIF++ In the spirit of the ongoing LS2, the time without particle beams is currently used to significantly upgrade the two CERN Irradiation facilities run by EP-DT, namely IRRAD and GIF++. Both facilities deliver essential services to the HEP community, with the focus on validating