Category: Newsletter
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TH Institute on “Neutral Naturalness”
TH Institute on "Neutral Naturalness" The TH Institute on "Neutral Naturalness", focussing on theories which aim to address the hierarchy problem and feature color-neutral top partner fields was held at CERN/TH from 23 to 26 April 2015. The systematic study of "neutral naturalness": natural theories with SM-neutral states that are as yet untested by the
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LS1 Upgrade of the ATLAS Level-1 Central Trigger Processor
LS1 Upgrade of the ATLAS Level-1 Central Trigger Processor Triggering at the LHC is a challenge: during Run-1 in ATLAS, the task was to select out of the 40 million bunch crossings per second the 1000 events most promising for data analysis. The first of three levels of this selection is the Level-1 trigger system,
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LHC sees first circulating beams
LHC sees first circulating beams Long Shutdown 1 officially came to an end on 5 April 2015, when a beam of protons circulated the LHC for the first time after two years. Following this long period of upgrades, repairs, and consolidation, the LHC is now ready to restart at 13 TeV, almost double its previous
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Focus on the Run Coordinators of the LHC Experiments (Part 2)
Focus on the Run Coordinators of the LHC Experiments (Part 2) Following two years of maintenance and consolidation work, the Long Shutdown 1 officially ended on 5 April 2015, when the first proton beams circulated the LHC. Now the LHC experiments are getting ready to operate once more and record the first collision data. In
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AMS Days at CERN
AMS Days at CERN The conference 'AMS Days at CERN' took place from 15 to 17 April at the Main Auditorium. Its aim was to provide an overview of the latest results of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, as well as bring together experts in astroparticle physics to exchange ideas and discuss the recent developments in
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Joining efforts to reach out with particle physics
Joining efforts to reach out with particle physics After the Higgs, how to best communicate LHC as a discovery machine? How to bring the masterclasses to new countries, age groups and settings? What makes a good educational game? How to join efforts in the existing national cosmic ray detector programs in order to take them
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Two distinctions for ISOLDE scientists
Two distinctions for ISOLDE scientists Two ISOLDE scientists have received prestigious awards this year for their research in the field of nuclear and particle physics. Kara Marie Lynch was honoured with the GENCO Young Scientist award, which recognizes outstanding achievements of young scientists in the field of exotic nuclei and super-heavy elements. The GENCO prize
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Carlo Rubbia: Muon Cooling at CERN
Carlo Rubbia: Muon Cooling at CERN BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/carlo-rubbia-muon-cooling-cern) In a talk at the CERN auditorium on 14 April Nobel laureate and Former DG Carlo Rubbia reviewed the case for a muon-antimuon (µ+µ–) collider. The interest in building a so-called "second-generation" Higgs factory that would allow better studying the properties
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CERN’s Latin-American Schools of High Energy Physics
CERN's Latin-American Schools of High Energy Physics The eighth CERN – Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics took place from 4 to 17 March 2015 in Ibarra, Ecuador. It was organized by CERN with the support of local colleagues from Escuela Politecnica Nacional (EPN), Quito, and Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ). The School was hosted
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2015 European School of High-Energy Physics
2015 European School of High-Energy Physics The 2015 European School of High-Energy Physics (formerly the CERN–JINR School of Physics) will take place from 2 to 15 September 2015 in Bansko, Bulgaria. It is organised and sponsored by CERN and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia, together with the University of Sofia, the