Category: Newsletter
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Scintillation light at the end of the tunnel
Scintillation light at the end of the tunnel The LHC Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) is approaching in giant steps and with it the date for the installation of the LHCb upgrade detectors. A large SciFi tracker will replace the current downstream trackers SciFi stands for scintillating fibre and means that the fibres will produce tiny
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ATLAS observes Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks
ATLAS observes Higgs boson produced in association with top quarks The ATLAS collaboration presented the first evidence of “ttH production”, a rare process where a pair of top quarks emits a Higgs boson. Observing this process would provide new insight into the Higgs mechanism and allow for new studies of how unknown physics might (or
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Upgrade of the Magnet Safety System for Experimental Magnets
Upgrade of the Magnet Safety System for Experimental Magnets The Magnet Safety System (MSS) is a critical system that ensures the safety of experimental magnets, both warm and superconducting. It was developed within EP-DT for the LHC experiments, starting at the end of the 90’s, in the framework of the overall Magnets Control Project (MCP).
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Toward top physics in electron-positron collisions
Toward top physics in electron-positron collisions The heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark, has not been studied in electron-positron collisions so far. A possible future collider such as the ILC, CLIC or FCC-ee would enable a unique top physics program far beyond the capabilities of the HL-LHC. About 60 experts met at CERN from
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A word from the Head of the EP department – October 2017
A word from the Head of the EP department – October 2017 Dear Colleagues, dear Members of the EP Department and CERN Users, Welcome to the autumn edition of the newsletter of the EP department. The EP newsletter is meant to inform all members of the department about what is going on in EP, and
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Electroweak boson pairs offer new approach to searches for New Physics
Electroweak boson pairs offer new approach to searches for New Physics During the past decades, the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics that explains how the basic building blocks of matter interact is scrutinised by high energy physics experiments. Along with the remarkable success of the SM, there are compelling reasons to consider that at
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CERN’s range of interaction becomes infinite
CERN’s range of interaction becomes infinite With over 60 years of history and more than 13,000 users from all over the world who tread the streets of its campus, CERN clearly has great potential to bring together a varied alumni community. While at CERN, members of personnel – not just staff but also users, associates,
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Baby MIND born at CERN
Baby MIND born at CERN BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/baby-mind-born-cern) Born from prototyping activities launched within the AIDA project, the Baby MIND aims to measure the momentum and identify the charge of muons that are the product of neutrino interactions in the WAGASCI detector at J-PARC. The WAGASCI detector, experiment T59, is
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ALICE Highlights from Strangeness in Quark Matter 2017
ALICE Highlights from Strangeness in Quark Matter 2017 BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/alice-highlights-strangeness-quark-matter-2017) The 17th edition of the International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter(SQM) was held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from 10 to 15 July 2017. This conference, traditionally one of the major appointments for the heavy-ion community, focuses on new
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ALPHA experiment takes a closer look at antimatter
ALPHA experiment takes a closer look at antimatter The ALPHA collaboration at CERN in Geneva has scored another coup on the antimatter front by performing the first-ever spectroscopic measurements of the internal state of the antihydrogen atom. The results were published in www.nature.com/nature/journal/v548/n7665/pdf/nature23446.pdf“>https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v548/n7665/pdf/nature23446.pdf“>Nature earlier this year in August. Their measurement showed the hyperfine splitting of
