Category: Newsletter
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ISOLDE: New access to study dilute rare earth doped materials
ISOLDE: New access to study dilute rare earth doped materials Mössbauer spectroscopy (MS) is named after Rudolf L. Mössbauer (1929-2011) who found the effect in 1957 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery in 1961. MS makes use of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence of gamma rays from low energy nuclear states
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CERN Summer Students Programme
CERN Summer Students Programme During the summer CERN turns into one of the most international and lively places you could ever imagine as hundrends of Summer Students arrive every year from all over the world. Students with different backgrounds spend a few weeks working with their supervisors on numerous topics in scientific research. BROKEN IMAGE
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CERN announces winners of its 2015 beamline for schools competition
CERN announces winners of its 2015 beamline for schools competition This week CERN announced the winners of its 2015 beamline for schools competition. Two teams of high-school students have been selected to travel to CERN in September to carry out their own experiments using a CERN accelerator beam. The winners, the “Leo4G” team from Liceo
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Editorial – June 2015
Editorial – June 2015 Dear Colleagues, Run 2 of the LHC is now officially underway, with first collisions recorded at the record energy of 13 TeV on 3rd June. I would like to congratulate everyone on the hard work throughout the long shutdown, which has brought the experiments and accelerator back to physics operation in
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Data Quality Monitoring: An important step towards new physics
Data Quality Monitoring: An important step towards new physics Data Quality Monitoring (DQM) is an important aspect of every high-energy physics experiment. In the era of LHC, when the detectors are extremely sophisticated devices, an online feedback on the quality of the data recorded is needed to avoid taking low quality data and to guarantee
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TDCpix: a high rate pixel detector ASIC with built-in ultra-precise stopwatches
TDCpix: a high rate pixel detector ASIC with built-in ultra-precise stopwatches The TDCpix, which stands for Time-to-Digital Converter Pixel ASIC, measures the position and arrival time of incident beam particles in the Gigatracker detector of the NA62 experiment. Its design architecture stems from experience with silicon pixel detectors and time measuring devices gained during the
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LHC experiment release data in CERN’s Open Data Portal
LHC experiment release data in CERN's Open Data Portal On 20 November 2014, CERN launched the Open Data Portal, making data from real collision events at the LHC experiments available for the first time to the general public. This project is part of the Organisation's policy of openness, which is enshrined in its founding convention
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New Human Resources Advisor for PH
New Human Resources Advisor for PH The PH department welcomes a new Human Resources Advisor, Michel Sebastian Guye-Bergeret. The HRA acts as an interface between the HR department and the department assigned to him or her, advising and supporting managers and other staff members on all HR matters. All discussions with your HRA are confidential.
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First public release of the Virtual Atom Smasher
First public release of the Virtual Atom Smasher In May 2015, the first public release was made of Virtual Atom Smasher, an educational game platform that was developed by a partnership between CERN and Citizen Cyberlab. During the Challenge, more than 19 billion particle collisions in the LHC and other CERN accelerators were simulated by
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EPS announces the 2015 prizes in the field of high energy physics.
EPS announces the 2015 prizes in the field of high energy physics. Last month, the High Energy and Particle Physics division of the European Physical Society announced the 2015 prizes for outstanding contributions in the field of high energy physics. The 2015 Young Experimental Physicist Prize was awarded to Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus and Giovanni Petrucciani,