Category: Newsletter
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CMS pixel upgrade: a truly global endeavor
CMS pixel upgrade: a truly global endeavor A new and upgraded pixel detector has just been installed in the heart of CMS in this extended year end technical stop (EYETS 2016-17), marking the end of a five year long construction project. The CMS pixel detector that was replaced was performing very well. However, the upgrade
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ICARUS flies to Fermilab
ICARUS flies to Fermilab The ICARUS T600 detectors are ready to start their journey to Fermilab. At the time of writing this note, the two detectors are parked at CERN, close to building 185 where 43 years ago neutral currents were discovered by the Gargamelle experiment. During the last two years, in a large clean
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AIDA-2020 spearheads European detector R&D
AIDA-2020 spearheads European detector R&D Detectors are what makes particle physics an experimental science. Pushing detector technologies and facilities beyond the frontiers of scientific innovation is critical in advancing high-energy physics. As such, current detectors must be improved and upgraded, whilst new technology, concepts and applications for future detectors need to be developed. The AIDA-2020
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A Moriond Retrospective: New Results from the LHC Experiments
A Moriond Retrospective: New Results from the LHC Experiments Every March, particle physicists around the world take two weeks to promote results, share opinions and do a bit of skiing in-between. This is the Moriond tradition and the 52nd iteration of the conference took place this year in La Thuile, Italy. Each of the four
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A highlight from the CLIC Week 2017
A highlight from the CLIC Week 2017 This March saw the annual workshop of the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) at CERN, gathering 220 collaborators from over 26 countries to discuss the latest status of the CLIC accelerator and detector studies. Two collaborations exists to study the feasibility of a future electron-positron linear collider at CERN
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Member States and CERN – at the heart of the Organization
Member States and CERN – at the heart of the Organization BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/member-states-and-cern-heart-organization) There has been much focus in recent years on the geographical enlargement of CERN. Since the process began in 2010, our membership has grown to 22 countries. We have welcomed a number of Associate Members, and
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A word from the Head of the EP department – March 2017
A word from the Head of the EP department – March 2017 Dear Colleagues, dear Members of the EP Department and CERN Users, Your are reading the first EP newsletter of 2017. This year will be another “production” year for LHC and the experiments. This means we will attempt to collect as much data as
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Search for axions in streaming dark matter
Search for axions in streaming dark matter Streaming dark matter (DM) axions may be the better source for their discovery than the widely assumed isotropic DM. Because, a large axion flux enhancement can take place, temporally, due to gravitational lensing when the Sun and/or a planet are aligned with the stream or an axion caustic
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The Lifetime Frontier
The Lifetime Frontier It bear repeating that there must be physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM). The triumphant discovery of the 125 GeV Higgs Boson sharpens the Hierarch Problem, with naturalness suggesting new particles at the TeV scale. A multitude of interlocking astrophysical and cosmological observations give us great confidence in the existence of BSM
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Hunting for right-handed neutrinos: the new game in town
Hunting for right-handed neutrinos: the new game in town What lies behind and beyond the Standard Model is an obsession of particle physicists today. The neutrino physicists have a somewhat different palette of opinions as compared to their colleagues working at the high energy frontier. They consider that the discovery that neutrinos have mass, (which