Category: Newsletter
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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
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Entrepreneurship Meet-Ups: Drive your creativity
Entrepreneurship Meet-Ups: Drive your creativity To inspire and encourage CERN people to entrepreneurship and innovation, the Knowledge Transfer Group recently launched a concept called Entrepreneurship Meet-Ups. The idea is to provide those interested in innovation and entrepreneurship with an informal arena where they can meet to learn about and discuss related topics. Some meet-ups will
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NA62 Experiment records first data
NA62 Experiment records first data Over the last weeks, while everyone has been excited with the restart of LHC, the NA62 experiment at CERN has already started producing data, following the circulation of the first beams in the injector chain in 2014. The experiment focuses in the study of kaon physics, which has been among
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KT group publishes its annual report
KT group publishes its annual report BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/kt-group-publishes-its-annual-report) As every year, the KT annual report was published in March. The present version of the report was implemented 4 years ago evolving from a standard report to CERN’s Finance Committee to a glossy form, reflecting how CERN transfers knowledge through