Category: Newsletter
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Exploring the Lifetime Frontier at the LHC and Beyond
Exploring the Lifetime Frontier at the LHC and Beyond By any reasonable measure, the first ten years of the LHC have been an unmitigated success. But are we exploring everywhere in our data? The overwhelming majority of the searches for particles beyond the Standard Model (BSM) conducted at ATLAS and CMS, for example, assume that
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Upgrading the LHCb trigger system
Upgrading the LHCb trigger system BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/upgrading-lhcb-trigger-system) The LHCb experiment is undergoing a significant upgrade during LS2 in order to allow it to run at a five times higher instantaneous luminosity in LHC Run 3. In order to deal with the corresponding increase in pileup per bunch crossing, most
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CMS Open data in use
CMS Open data in use “[…] The release of data could create a community of users which may be nurtured through regular events organized by CMS.[…]” This is a phrase in the CMS data preservation, re-use and open access policy, which was first approved seven and a half years ago. Now five years after the
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Scientific data management with Rucio
Scientific data management with Rucio Today's scientific experiments are manifold and diverse in their objectives, size, and workflows. However, one commonality uniting most, if not all, scientific experiments is the creation and analysis of data. Managing these scientific datasets is becoming an increasingly complex and complicated challenge. We have evolved from storing data in single
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BASE probes antimatter – dark matter interaction
BASE probes antimatter – dark matter interaction In a recent paper, the BASE collaboration presented results from a direct search for interactions of antimatter with dark matter and placed direct constraints on the interaction of ultralight axion-like particles (dark-matter candidates) with antiprotons. Their analysis constrained the value of the axion–antiproton interaction parameter in the range
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Optical Data Transmission for LHC Experiment Phase-2 Upgrades
Optical Data Transmission for LHC Experiment Phase-2 Upgrades Optical Readout and Control Systems have become ubiquitous with the LHC-era of Particle Physics Experiments, with each generation of detector upgrades bringing a need to transfer ever-greater amounts of data. Just like in our everyday lives where we now take for granted the ability to watch movies
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RECAST: A framework for reinterpreting physics searches at the LHC
RECAST: A framework for reinterpreting physics searches at the LHC On 22 of December 2015 a SpaceX rocket launched towards space delivering satellites to low Earth orbit and then, instead of being lost to the depths of the ocean, the rocket’s first stage — the most expensive component of a rocket — returned back to
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The NNLO frontier
The NNLO frontier The potential of a post-LHC collider to explore for hints of new physics relies on technological advancements but also on theoretical developments that will allow very accurate background determinations. With a concensus growing for a lepton collider offering a wide range of precision Higgs and electroweak measurements it is important to consider
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Shining more light on the onset of deconfinement
Shining more light on the onset of deconfinement “It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it.” said Sherlock*. – A Study in Scarlet, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1886 NA61/SHINE has recently completed data acquisition for its original programme on strong interactions. The Collaboration has gathered a rich data on collisions
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NA62 experiment presents new results
NA62 experiment presents new results The NA62 experiment presented the latest result on the search for the ultra-rare kaon decay K+ → π+νν ̄ using 2017 data at the KAON2019 Conference, at the Physics in Collision Conference and during a recent CERN’s EP Seminar Kaons, the lightest elementary particles containing the strange quark, have always