Category: Newsletter
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Setting a roadmap for future experimental technologies
Setting a roadmap for future experimental technologies In elementary-particle physics as in most fields of science, advances in understanding are closely coupled to advances in technology. Machines of higher luminosity open opportunities for the observation of rare and unexpected processes while higher-energy accelerators are needed to cross thresholds for suspected new phenomena. Advances in accelerator
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Report from CLIC Week 2018
Report from CLIC Week 2018 The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) workshop is the main annual gathering of the CLIC accelerator and detector communities. This year it attracted more than 220 participants to CERN, 22-26 January. CLIC is a proposed electron-positron linear collider, envisaged for the era beyond the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), that would operate a
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Theory goes forward to meet the FCC-ee strong experimental demands.
Theory goes forward to meet the FCC-ee strong experimental demands. The remarkable precision of LEP and other lepton colliders in the past has been instrumental in testing and understanding the Standard Model. In particular it was able to predict, by their effect on quantum corrections (a.k.a. ’loops’), the masses of the top quark and Higgs
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LHC experiments present results in Moriond Conference
LHC experiments present results in Moriond Conference This year saw the 53rd meeting in the series “Les Rencontres de Moriond”. ATLAS and CMS presented impressive results (see pictures) of searches for new phenomena, setting boundaries to where the new physics can still exist. These limits severely constrain models for physics beyond the Standard Model including
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Weighing up the LHC’s future
Weighing up the LHC’s future As the LHC’s 2017 run drew to a close late last year, CERN hosted a workshop addressing future physics opportunities at the flagship collider. The first workshop on the physics of High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) and perspectives at High-Energy LHC (HE-LHC) took place from 30 October to 1 November, attracting around
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Jürgen Schukraft receives the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour
Jürgen Schukraft receives the Niels Bohr Institute Medal of Honour Former ALICE spokesperson Jürgen Schukraft has been recently awarded the Niels Bohr Institute’s Honorary Medal, an honour for his outstanding career in heavy-ion physics and his role as leader of the ALICE experiment. Established in 2010 as a tribute to excellent physicists who have also
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A new database of irradiation facilities
A new database of irradiation facilities Detector and accelerator developers need irradiation facilities to test their components under conditions that are as close as possible to real applications, as well as to predict and prevent failures in materials. The foreseen high-luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC) and future accelerator projects like the Future Circular Collider
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Interview with Pascal Lamy
Interview with Pascal Lamy The European Commission is working on a proposal for the framework programme that will succeed Horizon 2020. This is done on the basis of various building blocks including the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020 and the Lab-Fab-App report (informally known as the Lamy report). We met Pascal Lamy, Chairman of the
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CernVM turns ten!
CernVM turns ten! BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/cernvm-turns-ten) The 3rd CernVM users workshop took place at CERN from 30 January to 1 February 2018. The workshop aims to bring together users, developers and industry speakers to discuss the current status of the CernVM ecosystem and the future directions, with a fresh look
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ALICE upgrade plans
ALICE upgrade plans The ALICE experiment prepares upgrades of several subsystems and the online–offline system for data acquisition and processing during the Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This will enable the experiment to do high precision measurements of rare probes from high to very low transverse momentum while also searching