Category: Newsletter
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PUMA: Exploring exotic nuclear phenomena with antimatter
PUMA: Exploring exotic nuclear phenomena with antimatter PUMA is a new experiment proposed at both the CERN AD and ISOLDE facilities, that would for the first time transport antiprotons trapped at AD/ELENA to ISOLDE, by carrying them in a trap loaded onto a truck. The antiprotons would then be used for nuclear physics experiments at
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A word from the Head of the EP department – December 2019
A word from the Head of the EP department – December 2019 Dear Colleagues, dear Members of the EP Department and CERN Users, Another year turns to its end. It was the first year of the Long Shutdown 2 with all the accelerators stopped at CERN. This didn’t mean that we were idling in EP.
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AMVA4NewPhysics legacy in searches for new physics
AMVA4NewPhysics legacy in searches for new physics A couple of months ago, the four-year life cycle of AMVA4NewPhysics, a Horizon2020-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN), in which CERN participated as one of the member institutions, was completed. With the ultimate objective of searching ways which would improve the measurement and search sensitivity of the
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EP launches new R&D programme for detector technologies
EP launches new R&D programme for 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 experiments to continue playing their important role in scientific inquiry a solid programme
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First SWAN workshop at CERN
First SWAN workshop at CERN The first SWAN (Service for Wab based ANalysis) and Jupyter Notebooks Users’ Workshop was held last October at CERN. One of the main goals of the meeting was to offer a space where users could openly share their experience and gather feedback for develpments that could improve the service to
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Shaping the future of particle physics
Shaping the future of particle physics Τhe ongoing update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics aims to identify the potential opportunities and challenges of the proposed research programme through an inclusive and evidence-driven process. Discussions focus on the parameter space that can be explored and how future searches could guide theoretical developments along with
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CAST: from Solar to Dark Matter Axions searches
CAST: from Solar to Dark Matter Axions searches CERN’s Axion Solar telescope (CAST) has been running since 2003 searching for the axion: a hypothetical particle introduced in 1978 as a consequence of the Peccei-Quinn mechanism aiming to solve the strong CP problem, i.e why is the neutron electric dipole moment limit some ten orders of
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Precision timing upgrade of the CMS detector
Precision timing upgrade of the CMS detector Soon after 2027, the LHC will enter the high luminosity era, known as HL-LHC. It will begin operations at a stable luminosity of 5.0×1034 cm−2 s−1, resulting in much higher collision rates than currently achievable, but with a pileup of 140 collisions during a bunch crossing. In an
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Finding the best candidates for atomic EDM searches
Finding the best candidates for atomic EDM searches The search for hints of new physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) calls for a combination of experimental strategies including both direct searches but also a number of very high-precision measurements of certain quantities looking for deviations that could be interpreted in the framework of BSM physics.
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Re-discovering the Higgs boson in the Cloud
Re-discovering the Higgs boson in the Cloud It’s hard to believe that it has already been more than seven years since the discovery of the Higgs boson. Since then, numerous papers have been published by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations measuring the long-awaited particle’s properties in detail. Have you ever wondered whether one could repeat