Category: Newsletter
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Emmy Noether: the mathematician who changed the face of physics
Emmy Noether: the mathematician who changed the face of physics On a warm summer evening, a visitor to 1920s Göttingen, Germany, might have heard the hubbub of a party from an apartment on Friedländer Way. A glimpse through the window would reveal a gathering of scholars. The wine would be flowing and the air buzzing
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Cloud(y) climate studies at CERN
Cloud(y) climate studies at CERN Continuous improvements to the CLOUD facility as well as to the instruments combined with the state of the art know-how available at CERN have enabled a steady increase in the measurement capabilities and resulted in numerous high impact publications. This combination reflects CLOUD's world leading role in experimental laboratory studies
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Precise timing detectors for the LHC experiments
Precise timing detectors for the LHC experiments The ATLAS and CMS experiments physics programme at the HL-LHC will target a very wide range of measurements, including in-depth studies of the Higgs boson properties and direct searches for physics beyond the standard model (BSM). Timing detectors will help improve vertex identification, acceptance extension for isolated objects,
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Neutrinos: the hunt continues at CERN
Neutrinos: the hunt continues at CERN BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/neutrinos-hunt-continues-cern) DsTau is a new project which has been proposed at the CERN SPS to study tau-neutrino (ντ ) production [1] with the aim of providing important data for future ντ measurements. Indications of possible lepton non-universality have been recently reported by
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XENON1T probes deeper into Dark Matter WIMPs
XENON1T probes deeper into Dark Matter WIMPs Results from XENON1T, the world’s largest and most sensitive detector dedicated to a direct search for Dark Matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), were reported on the 28th May, by the spokesperson, Prof. Elena Aprile of Columbia University, in a seminar at the hosting
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Heavy-ion collisions at Quark Matter 2018
Heavy-ion collisions at Quark Matter 2018 BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/heavy-ion-collisions-quark-matter-2018) CERN experiments presented their latest results from the study of lead-ion collisions at the annual Quark Matter conference, that was held this year in Venice, Italy. The programme includes a plethora of presentations on a variety of topics, spanning QCD at
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Towards an FCC-hh Detector Magnet System
Towards an FCC-hh Detector Magnet System The Future Circular Collider (FCC) study is well on its way, and will culminate in the publication of the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) early 2019. The most ambitious proposed future machine is a hadron-hadron accelerator (FCC-hh) of 100 km in circumference foreseeing proton-proton collisions at a center of mass
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A bright future for microelectronics at CERN
A bright future for microelectronics at CERN During the 2018 FCC week in Amsterdam, Michael Campbell (EP-ESE) gave a presentation on the “Present and future of microelectronics”. Following an informative review of ASICs used in the LHC run one systems, he tried to distinguish recent trends in ASIC design for HEP experiments and discussed possibly
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New season starts for the LHC experiments
New season starts for the LHC experiments The last 2017 proton-proton collisions took place on 28 November and the LHC machine was shut down during the winter period to allow for planned technical interventions while the LHC experiments profit from this period to perform maintenance work on many sub-detectors. Four months later proton beams were
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ProtoDUNE gets ready for first tests at CERN
ProtoDUNE gets ready for first tests at CERN Last year has been particularly busy in CERN’s EHN1 test facility in the north area of the Prévessin site, as work is ongoing for the construction of the two ProtoDUNE detectors. The two prototypes test different concepts of the future Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) detector, planned