Category: Newsletter
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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
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MOEDAL first results at the LHC’s discovery frontier
MOEDAL first results at the LHC’s discovery frontier In 2010 the MoEDAL experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was approved, as the LHC’s newest experiment, to start data taking in 2015. MoEDAL is a pioneering experiment designed to search for highly ionizing avatars of new physics such as magnetic monopoles or massive (pseudo-)stable charged
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First measurements of the antihydrogen spectrum
First measurements of the antihydrogen spectrum For many years, atomic spectroscopy allowed the determination of the composition of an element by its electromagnetic spectrum. Every chemical element has a unique `signature' which can be revealed by analyzing the light it gives off. Measuring how elements emit or absorb light allows scientists to characterize atoms and
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Gender in Physics Day
Gender in Physics Day BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/gender-physics-day) The fourth Gender in Physics Day (GiPD) conference was hosted by ESO, NordForsk and CERN on Friday 27 January 2017 at the Globe of Science and Innovation, CERN. The GiPD, organised in the framework of the GENERA Project (Gender Equality Network in the
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ATLAS and CMS physicists awarded 2017 Panofsky Prize
ATLAS and CMS physicists awarded 2017 Panofsky Prize BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/atlas-and-cms-physicists-awarded-2017-panofsky-prize) On Tuesday, 11 October 2016, the American Physical Society (APS) announced the award of the 2017 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize in Experimental Particle Physics to Michel Della Negra (Imperial College London and, previously, CERN), Peter Jenni (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg and, previously,
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Searching for dark energy with particle colliders
Searching for dark energy with particle colliders 2 GeV. For one type of coupling this is eleven orders of magnitude more stringent than constraints obtained from cosmological and solar system tests, and excludes previously popular models that require the coupling scale to lie close to the dark energy scale, Λ ~ 10 -3 eV. These
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Measurement of matter-antimatter differences in beauty baryon decays.
Measurement of matter-antimatter differences in beauty baryon decays. The LHCb collaboration recently published in Nature Physics the first evidence for the violation of the CP symmetry in baryon decays with statistical significance of 3.3 standard deviations (σ). CP violation has been observed in K and B meson decays, but not yet in any baryon decay.
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Xmas wishes FCC
Xmas wishes FCC Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends, 2016 has been an exciting year that in many respects exceeded our expectations. Significant progress has been made since the FCC kick-off meeting, held in Geneva in 2014. Today’s outstanding questions in fundamental physics can only be successfully addressed through the variety of approaches the field has developed