Category: Newsletter
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Interview with Guido Tonelli
Interview with Guido Tonelli Guido Tonelli, former spokesperson of the CMS experiment and one of the protagonists of the Higgs boson discovery, discusses the meaning of one of the major breakthroughs of the century, as well as the importance of pushing beyond the current limits of knowledge. He reflects on the present situation in particle
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EP department announces new neutrino group
EP department announces new neutrino group To meet the challenges of the neutrino programme at CERN, the EP department recently announced the establishment of a neutrino group in the department. The group will act as a focal point for the activities of the accelerator-based experimental neutrino community in Europe and world-wide, and will work in
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Physics at 100 TeV
Physics at 100 TeV A report discussing the opportunities for physics discoveries with a future 100 TeV hadron circular collider was presented earlier this summer during the 2016 FCC Week. A future hadron-hadron collider machine will be able to cover previously unexplored territory at energies never before reached in a laboratory environment. Standard Model calculations
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A new CERN service for web-based data analysis in the cloud: SWAN
A new CERN service for web-based data analysis in the cloud: SWAN In the last few years, a clear trend has emerged in the data science industry: the increase of service offerings for data analysis in the cloud, accessible via a web interface. It is precisely this phenomenon that led us, the SFT and IT-ST
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First call for proposals for the SESAME light source
First call for proposals for the SESAME light source BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/first-call-proposals-sesame-light-source) Allan, Jordan, and Manchester, UK, 27 July 2016. SESAME, the pioneering new regional laboratory for the Middle East and neighbouring countries, announced last month its first call for proposals for experiments. A third generation light source with a
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Charting the Unknown: interpreting LHC data from the energy frontier
Charting the Unknown: interpreting LHC data from the energy frontier The LHC has started its Run2, exploring for the first time the high-energy frontier at 13 TeV. Collected data will give decisive information on the dynamics behind electroweak symmetry breaking and allow testing the weak-scale naturalness. A TH Institute “Charting the Unknown: Interpreting LHC data
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Help the Higgs to find its siblings
Help the Higgs to find its siblings BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/help-higgs-find-its-siblings) A citizen science project, called HiggsHunters gives everyone the chance to help search for the Higgs boson’s relatives. Volunteers are searching through thousands of images from the ATLAS experiment on the HiggsHunters.org (link is external) website, which makes use of
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The CERN School of Computing 2016
The CERN School of Computing 2016 The CERN School of Computing (CSC) fosters the dissemination of knowledge and learning in the field of scientific computing. Its mission is to create a common culture in scientific computing among young scientists and engineers involved in particle physics and other sciences as a strategic direction to facilitate the
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ASACUSA Collaboration at CERN AD
ASACUSA Collaboration at CERN AD ASACUSA (atomic spectroscopy and collisions using slow antiprotons) now works mainly on two subjects, 1) antihydrogen ground-state hyperfine splitting measurement, and 2) antiprotonic helium laser spectroscopy. Both of these aim at CPT tests. ASACUSA collaboration has a unique infrastructure called the RFQD (radiofrequency quadrupole decelerator), an inverse linac, which decelerates
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The BASE Experiment
The BASE Experiment BASE is a Japanese / German collaboration at the antiproton decelerator facility which was approved in 2013. The goal of the effort is to conduct Penning trap based high-precision investigations of the fundamental properties of protons and antiprotons. These type of experiments provide stringent tests of the fundamental charge, parity, time invariance,