Category: Newsletter
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10th joint EPPCN & IPPOG meeting held at CERN
10th joint EPPCN & IPPOG meeting held at CERN The 10th meeting of the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) was held at CERN from the 5th to the 7th of November 2015. BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/10th-joint-eppcn-ippog-meeting-held-cern) IPPOG is an international network of physicists, science communicators and educators from all CERN
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LHC successfully completes proton run during Run 2
LHC successfully completes proton run during Run 2 The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has successfully completed its planned proton run for 2015, delivering the equivalent of about 400 trillion (1012) proton-proton collisions. The year began with an intense phase of commissioning using cosmic-ray data and the first proton–proton collisions that allowed physicists to test the
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Hagedorn’s Legacy
Hagedorn’s Legacy A half-day workshop took place last week at CERN on Hagedorn’s Legacy. It provided the forum for discussing the past, present and future of Hagedorn’s contributions to physics, 50 year’s after the publication of his seminal Nuovo Cimento paper on the “Statistical thermodynamics of strong interactions at high energies”. Fifty years have passed
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Guido Altarelli
Guido Altarelli Guido Altarelli passed away on September 30th, the TH group bid farewell him: “Many memories rush to mind, as tears to our eyes. His ironic humour, his warmth, his kindness, his integrity, his magnificent smile. A pillar of our group is gone. His great contributions to physics will be a lasting tribute to
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SFT participates for fifth year in Google’s Summer of Code programme
SFT participates for fifth year in Google's Summer of Code programme BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/sft-participates-fifth-year-googles-summer-code-programme) The CERN PH/SFT group has participated for the fifth consecutive year in the 2015 Google Summer of Code programme. 14 students have been funded by Google to work for 3 months during the summer on CERN
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Results from ATLAS & CMS shed light on Higgs properties
Results from ATLAS & CMS shed light on Higgs properties Three years after the announcement of the discovery of a new particle, the Higgs boson, the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations have recently presented for the first time combined measurements of many of its properties, at the third annual Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference (LHCP 2015).
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AWAKE starts installation
AWAKE starts installation On 18 September, the CERN council approved a boost in funding for a planned experiment called the Advanced Wakefield Experiment, or AWAKE. AWAKE is a proof-of-principle experiment, whose aim is to use protons to generate powerful wakefields, accelerating an electron beam. With accelerator gradients hundreds of times higher than those used in
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Measuring the strong coupling constant: from the LHC to FCC-ee
Measuring the strong coupling constant: from the LHC to FCC-ee The latest advances in the measurement of the coupling of the strong interaction were discussed in a recent workshop on “High precision measurements of αs: from LHC to FCC-ee” held at CERN, 12-13 October 2015. The meeting brought together the leading experts in the field
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A Timelapse video of CAST
A Timelapse video of CAST The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) is an experiment to search for hypothetical particles called axions. These have been proposed by some theoretical physicists to explain why there is a subtle difference between matter and antimatter in processes involving the weak force, but not the strong force. If axions exist,
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LHC experiments upgraded trigger plans
LHC experiments upgraded trigger plans As the LHC prepares for higher energies and luminosities all four experiments have upgraded their triggering to record data more efficiently and make sure that their detectors are ready to find evidence for new physics. The trigger teams from the experiments describe the changes made between Run1 and Run 2