Category: Newsletter
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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
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Silicon photonics for high-energy physics experiments
Silicon photonics for high-energy physics experiments Optical links have become ubiquitous in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments to transport data generated from the particle detectors and other control points along the accelerator to the processing electronics. So far, links based on both single-mode Edge Emitting Lasers (EELs) [1] and multi-mode Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers
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Colour X-rays for Medicine: The 2019 specXray workshop
Colour X-rays for Medicine: The 2019 specXray workshop The fifth workshop on Medical Applications of Spectroscopic X-ray Detectors (specXray) took place at CERN from 13 to 17th of May. Since its establishment in 2011, the workshop has brought together specialists from different but related fields focusing on how best to advance effort and understanding in
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HIE-ISOLDE: a unique window into the nucleus
HIE-ISOLDE: a unique window into the nucleus With the recent completion of the second phase of HIE-ISOLDE, CERN’s ISOLDE facility has a machine capable of answering long-unanswered questions about the nature of the nucleus. The installation of 4 cryomodules in 2018 allowed for the acceleration of radioactive isotopes up to 7.4 MeV/u for A/q =
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DT group: A year in review
DT group: A year in review In the beginning of June, the EP-DT group has published its Annual Report summarizing its yearly activities and offering an overview of major achievements and future collaborative plans. The Detector Technologies (DT) group comprises expertise in many key domains for advanced detector systems and engages in several detector projects
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The Higgs boson as a probe for new physics
The Higgs boson as a probe for new physics The discovery of the Higgs boson has ushered in a new era of exploration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Persistent tensions in the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics compel us to seek out physics beyond the SM (BSM) at the TeV scale, and the
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Studying the Higgs at future colliders
Studying the Higgs at future colliders The LHC offers a very detailed knowledge of how the Standard Model particles interact, but we know that this knowledge is incomplete. A number of experimental data and theoretical motivations point to the existence of new physics beyond the description of the Standard Model. The recently discovered Higgs boson
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Physics from neutrino near detectors: opening a new window for BSM searches
Physics from neutrino near detectors: opening a new window for BSM searches With the advent of a new generation of neutrino experiments which leverage high-intensity neutrino beams for precision measurements, it is timely to explore the opportunity that these experiments offer for searches of beyond the standard model (BSM) physics. The realm of BSM physics