Category: Newsletter
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Science: a model for collaboration?
Science: a model for collaboration? This opinion piece was originally published in the January-February issue of the CERN Courier. Today, science, technology and innovation are among the most powerful forces driving social change and development. However, what is the actual role that a fundamental science laboratory like CERN can have when it comes to designing
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Interview with James Peebles
Interview with James Peebles An interview with Jim Peebles, one of the world’s foremost cosmologists and an emeritus professor at Princeton University, where since 1984 he was the Albert Einstein Professor of Science. Together with Robert Dicke (who was originally his supervisor) and others they predicted the existence of the cosmic background radiation while his
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ATLAS and ALICE PhD Awards
ATLAS and ALICE PhD Awards Two of the LHC experiments, ATLAS and ALICE, recently announced winners of the “ATLAS PhD Grant” and “ALICE Thesis Award” schemes. The prizes aim to foster healthy competition between young members of the two collaborators and acknowledge the hard efforts of the winners but also of those who were considered
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ICTR-PHE 2016: Uniting physics, biology and medicine
ICTR-PHE 2016: Uniting physics, biology and medicine The third edition of the ICTR-PHE conference (see here), held in Geneva from 15 to 19 February, was again a unique place where multidisciplinary scientists met to share knowledge and to bridge gaps between all disciplines. More than 440 participants from all over the world met during five
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ICTR-PHE 2016: An Overview
ICTR-PHE 2016: An Overview Along the five days of the ICTR-PHE 2016 Conference, a copious group of scientists coming from different research fields, spanning physics, engineering, radiobiology, and medicine, shared the results of their work and brought proposals for the future development of radiation oncology. Very hot topics were discussed between plenary sessions, parallel workshops,
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Design of Twin Solenoid & Dipoles Detector Magnet System for the Future Circular Collider
Design of Twin Solenoid & Dipoles Detector Magnet System for the Future Circular Collider The Future Circular Collider study for hadron-hadron collisions/collider (FCC-hh) foresees a collision energy of 100 TeV, which is about 7 times higher than the LHC. For the detectors this means that in order to determine the properties of the particles the
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In theory: Welcome to the Theory Department
In theory: Welcome to the Theory Department After almost ten years under the umbrella of the PH department, TH becomes again a department. In 2005, it was incorporated into the CERN Physics Department as the "Theory Unit". In 2016 it once again became an independent department, the "Theoretical Physics Department" To this end, CERN-TH aims
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ISOLDE sheds light to the nature of the proposed magic number N = 32
ISOLDE sheds light to the nature of the proposed magic number N = 32 The most intuitive properties of the nucleus are its mass and size. Both properties can be precisely studied with dedicated experiments at ISOLDE. Most of the nuclei are deformed, i.e. shaped like a rugby ball or like a pancake, only a
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FCC-ee physics workshops at CERN
FCC-ee physics workshops at CERN The design study of the Future Circular Colliders (FCC) was initiated at the beginning of 2014, to identify post-LHC accelerator projects at CERN. The study has an emphasis on proton-proton (FCC-hh) and electron-positron (FCC-ee) colliders, and includes the design and optimization of detectors that would comply with the physics programme
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Successful commissioning of the new PH-DT safety and control system for the refurbished COMPASS Solenoid.
Successful commissioning of the new PH-DT safety and control system for the refurbished COMPASS Solenoid. From left to right, L.Deront, S.Ravat and A.Kehrli in front of the Safety and Control system racks developed and manufactured in PH-DT for the COMPASS solenoid. The PH-DT Instrumentation and Controls team has being developing a new safety system for
