Category: Newsletter
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In memory of Bruno Zumino: an arcitect of supersymmetry
In memory of Bruno Zumino: an arcitect of supersymmetry BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/memory-bruno-zumino-arcitect-supersymmetry) April 28th would have marked the 92nd birthday of Bruno Zumino, who died last year. The Theory Group organized a meeting around this date to honour his memory and to discuss his legacy. The presentations with slides and
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CERN participates in the 2015 Google Summer of Code
CERN participates in the 2015 Google Summer of Code The CERN PH/SFT group is participating for the fifth year in the 2015 Google Summer of Code programme. The Google Summer of Code is a global programme funded by Google that offers post-secondary student developers a three month stipend to write code for open source software
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CHEP 2015: Discussing future challenges in HEP computing
CHEP 2015: Discussing future challenges in HEP computing The HEP software and computing communities organise a conference every 18 months with the location rotating between the US, Europe and Asia. This year's conference, CHEP2015, took place from 13-17 April and was organised by our Japanese colleagues on the pacific island of Okinawa, at the Okinawa
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3rd workshop on medical applications of spectroscopic X-‐ray detectors.
3rd workshop on medical applications of spectroscopic X-‐ray detectors. The 3rd workshop on medical applications of spectroscopic X-ray detectors took place at CERN from 20-23 April. There were 113 registered participants of which about 50 were from industry. All of the major medical equipment suppliers active in the spectroscopic Computer Tomography (CT) field (GE, Philips,
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The new CMS Timing and Control Distribution System
The new CMS Timing and Control Distribution System It is of paramount importance that all parts of an LHC experiment are synchronized to each other and to the passage of particles in the centre of the experiment. The original CMS Timing, Trigger, and Control (TTC) system made this possible during the first period of data-taking
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The run 2015 for the PH-DT Irradiation Facilities has begun!
The run 2015 for the PH-DT Irradiation Facilities has begun! The PH-DT irradiation facilities team operates the Proton Irradiation Facility (IRRAD) at the PS East Area and the Gamma Irradiation Facility (GIF++) located at the SPS North Area. Moreover, the team provides support in planning irradiation experiments at CERN and organizes irradiation campaigns in facilities
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LHC experiments back in business at record energy
LHC experiments back in business at record energy BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/lhc-experiments-back-business-record-energy) The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started delivering physics data on 3rd of June for the first time in 27 months. After an almost two year shutdown and several months re-commissioning, the LHC is now providing collisions to all of
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US-CERN agreement paves way for new era of discovery
US-CERN agreement paves way for new era of discovery A new agreement signed yesterday in Washington between the United States and CERN will pave the way for renewed collaboration in particle physics. The agreement, signed in a White House ceremony by the US Department of Energy, US National Science Foundation and CERN will enable continued
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Editorial – May 2015
Editorial – May 2015 Dear Colleagues, With the LHC now back in action, all the LHC experiments are preparing to study the highest-energy particle collisions ever achieved in the laboratory, and search for clear signs of physics beyond the Standard Model. Earlier in April the first beams circulated and the control rooms of all four