Category: Newsletter
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Can Future Energy Needs be Met Sustainably? CERN Colloquium on 15 September 2015
Can Future Energy Needs be Met Sustainably? CERN Colloquium on 15 September 2015 Global energy use is increasing rapidly, driven by rising living standards in developing countries. Although the percentage of primary energy provided by burning fossil fuels is falling slowly from its current value of some 80%, their contribution is rising in absolute terms
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Editorial September 2015
Editorial September 2015 Dear Colleagues, Summer is coming to a close, and I hope you have found time for some vacation and have returned reinvigorated, ready for the full exploitation of the restarting of the experimental programme. The summer students who enliven the laboratory at this time of year will now be leaving us, but
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LHC experiments present latests results from heavy-ion runs
LHC experiments present latests results from heavy-ion runs The 7th edition of the Hard Probes International Conference series was hosted by McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in the Summer of 2015 (June 29 – July 3). During the last two decades, high-energy nuclear physics has seen a tremendous progress; thanks to the combined efforts
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Safety for newcomers
Safety for newcomers Imagine yourself arriving at CERN for the first time; you probably know very little about how CERN is organised, the location of the different buildings and the types of installations and equipment. As a newcomer, you are keen and motivated and want to start working as soon as possible. However, it is
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n_TOF one year after – First results
n_TOF one year after – First results Since the termination of the construction of the new second experimental area EAR2 [1,2] of n_TOF in July 2014 [3], the facility has been successfully taking data both in the existing experimental area EAR1 and in the new EAR2. The neutron beams in both areas are produced simultaneously
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COMPASS-II: A QCD Laboratory at CERN
COMPASS-II: A QCD Laboratory at CERN With COMPASS-II CERN enters in the exploration of a new territory: the structure of the proton in multiple dimensions. While COMPASS-I primarily studied the distribution and polarisation of quarks and gluons in the nucleon as a function of the longitudinal momentum carried by the struck quark or gluon, now
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EPS – HEP 2015 Conference Highlights
EPS – HEP 2015 Conference Highlights BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/eps-hep-2015-conference-highlights) The EPS – HEPP Conference was held in Vienna, Austria from 22 to 29 of July, 2015, with about 700 participants. The organisation committee, chaired by Prof. Thomas Lohse, did a perfect job from every aspect. The first results from the
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ALICE and BASE experiments present new results related to CPT symmetry
ALICE and BASE experiments present new results related to CPT symmetry In August the ALICE experiment published a precise measurement of the difference between ratios of the mass and electric charge of light nuclei and antinuclei produced during heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. The article published in the journal Nature Physics confirms one of the
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Interview with Nima Arkani Hamed
Interview with Nima Arkani Hamed P.C. What were your biggest influences in deciding to do physics? Α.Η. As I grew up in a family of physicists, I have been fascinated by science, and especially the connection between mathematics and physics, since my childhood. For instance, I recall coming to the striking realization that Newton’s equations
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TOTEM experiment upgrade
TOTEM experiment upgrade The Totem experiment has shown with recent data that in collaboration with CMS is possible to enlarge the original physics program in the diffractive proton interaction field. The Central Diffraction channel, although it has an order of magnitude less cross-section than the Single Diffraction process, has the peculiarity to give precise information