Category: Newsletter
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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
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DUNE collaboration meeting at CERN
DUNE collaboration meeting at CERN BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/dune-collaboration-meeting-cern) Dune Collaboration Week at CERN (Image Credits:CERN) On 23-26 January this year about 250 members of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) collaboration met at CERN to discuss the status and plans. This was the first time a general plenary meeting of
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Wealth of new results in Quark Matter 2017
Wealth of new results in Quark Matter 2017 BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/wealth-new-results-quark-matter-2017) Last month, the LHC experiment collaborations presented their latest results at the Quark Matter 2017 conference on how matter behaved in the very early moments of the universe. The programme includes a plethora of presentations on a variety of
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Exotic searches with NA62 experiment
Exotic searches with NA62 experiment The NA62 experiment at CERN focuses in the study of kaon physics; a branch of physics that has been one of the major protagonists of the field in the second half of the twentieth century, as it played a key role in the development of the Standard Model and in