Category: Newsletter
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Interview Shep S. Doeleman, Event Horizon Telescope Director
Interview Shep S. Doeleman, Event Horizon Telescope Director “We have taken the first picture of a black hole! This is an extraordinary scientific feat accomplished by a team of more than 200 researchers” with these words, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) project director Sheperd S. Doeleman of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
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A word from the Head of the EP department – June 2019
A word from the Head of the EP department – June 2019 Dear Colleagues, dear Members of the EP Department and CERN Users, It is a pleasure to introduce this edition of the EP newsletter. Once again the newsletter contains many articles covering the broad spectrum of activities in our department. You will find articles
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Exploring dark sector with NA64: First results from the combined analysis of 2016-2018 runs
Exploring dark sector with NA64: First results from the combined analysis of 2016-2018 runs Searches for dark matter (DM) particles, an essential experimental goal for particle physics, are entering in an interesting stage. Despite the strong astrophysical evidence for dark matter, little is still known about the origin and dynamics of this substance of our
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MUonE experiment plans to shed light on the muon anomalous magnetic moment
MUonE experiment plans to shed light on the muon anomalous magnetic moment BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/muone-experiment-plans-shed-light-muon-anomalous-magnetic-moment) The long-standing discrepancy between the experimental value and the Standard Model (SM) prediction of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon remains one of fundamental parameters in Quantum Field Theory that still lacks an explanation.
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COMPASS++/AMBER: A new QCD facility at CERN’s SPS M2 beam line
COMPASS++/AMBER: A new QCD facility at CERN's SPS M2 beam line The COMPASS++/AMBER Collaboration proposes to establish a “New QCD facility at the M2 beam line of the CERN SPS”. Such an unrivalled installation would make the experimental hall EHN2 the site for a great variety of measurements to address fundamental issues of strong interactions.
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Searching for new physics with hadrons and muons at SPS
Searching for new physics with hadrons and muons at SPS CERN is not only home to the LHC but provides a diverse physics programme using the LHC injector complex including the PS and the SPS that deliver a range of high-energy beams to a number of experiments. In order to fully exploit the scientific potential
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ENUBET: a beam for the precision era of neutrino physics
ENUBET: a beam for the precision era of neutrino physics Even if neutrino oscillations were discovered more than 20 years ago, our knowledge of mixing, flavor oscillation and CP violation in the neutrino sector is still far from the precision achieved for quarks. CP violation in the quark sector was established in 1964 and the
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FASER joins the exploration for new physics
FASER joins the exploration for new physics On March 5th the CERN Research Board approved the ForwArd Search ExpeRiment (FASER), for installation at the LHC during Long Shutdown 2. FASER is an experiment designed to broaden the search for new physics at the LHC, by looking for light, weakly- interacting new particles that could be
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A new home for GEM detectors at CERN
A new home for GEM detectors at CERN Since the beginning of 2019, a new building at CERN is ready to house ongoing R&D activities that will push the performance of detectors to cope with the high performance of the LHC. Building No.107 (replacing the building 102) offers a brand new laboratory with sophisticated equipment,
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The GEMs of CMS
The GEMs of CMS To prepare for the higher collision energy and luminosity of the subsequent running period of the LHC significant improvements are ongoing in the CMS detector. One of the planned upgrades is the installation of large-area GEM detectors in the forward muon region. Following an extensive R&D program since 2009, Triple GEM