Category: Newsletter
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A full carbon-composite box prototype to host the new LHCb Upstream Tracker detector
A full carbon-composite box prototype to host the new LHCb Upstream Tracker detector The LHCb Collaboration will replace the Trigger Tracker (TT) detector by the Upstream Tracker (UT) during LS2. The UT detector will be installed in a box (UT box) which will serve as the boundary between the detector (operated below zero degrees Celsius)
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LHC community prepares the High Luminosity Upgrades
LHC community prepares the High Luminosity Upgrades With the approval of the CERN Council in June 2016, the LHC is now moving toward execution of the High Luminosity upgrades. As well, after the first step of approval by scientific committees at the end of 2015, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations were encouraged by the Resource
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Become a Higgs Hunter
Become a Higgs Hunter HiggsHunters is the first mass-participation citizen science project for the Large Hadron Collider, allowing non-experts to get directly involved in physics analysis. Since its launch in 2014 on the Zooniverse platform, over 30,000 people from 179 countries have participated in the project. Their work has led to the project’s first publication
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An ambitious p-Pb data taking campaign just came to an end
An ambitious p-Pb data taking campaign just came to an end These asymmetric collisions were originally meant as a benchmark to control for background effects unrelated to the production of a quark-gluon plasma, expected in Pb-Pb collisions simply due to the use of Pb nuclei instead of protons in the collisions. Distinguishing the two classes
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CERN Summer Student Programme 2016
CERN Summer Student Programme 2016 BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/cern-summer-student-programme-2016) During the summer the EP department welcomed 230 summer students. They have participated in lectures covering a wide range of topics, and had the chance to visit different sites around CERN and learn more about the diversity of CERN's research programme. Additionally
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Can ‘useless’ knowledge be useful?
Can ‘useless’ knowledge be useful? BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/can-useless-knowledge-be-useful) As far back as 1939, Abraham Flexner penned a stirring paean to basic research in Harpers magazine under the title: ‘The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge’. Flexner, perhaps being intentionally provocative, pointed out that Marconi’s contribution to the radio and wireless had been
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A word from the Head of the EP department – September 2016
A word from the Head of the EP department – September 2016 Dear Colleagues, Members of the EP Department and CERN Users, Welcome to the 3rd edition of the EP Newsletter this year. Many of you have certainly followed the ICHEP 2016 conference, either in Chicago directly or from remote. An amazing wealth of results
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Playing with Protons: Engaging Teachers to Engage K-6 Students with Science, Technology and Innovation
Playing with Protons: Engaging Teachers to Engage K-6 Students with Science, Technology and Innovation BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/playing-protons-engaging-teachers-engage-k-6-students-science-technology-and-innovation) There is widespread consensus among science education researchers that learning science should begin early in every child’s schooling. Among many good reasons, one stands out clearly: “Children naturally enjoy observing and thinking about
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Physics Beyond Colliders kickoff workshop
Physics Beyond Colliders kickoff workshop Recent results from the LHC shows that that the Standard Model works with a remarkable accuracy within the presently accessible energy range. However there is now overwhelming evidence for the existence of Dark Matter; a component of our Universe not described by the Standard Model. On the other hand, the
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LHC experiments present latest results in ICHEP16
LHC experiments present latest results in ICHEP16 BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/lhc-experiments-present-latest-results-ichep16) New results from the LHC experiments were presented during the 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2016) that took place in Chicago, USA. The collaborations of the LHC experiments can now dive in and explore at the new
