Category: Newsletter
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Injection tests make a splash
Injection tests make a splash BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/injection-tests-make-splash) On Saturday 7 March, two of the LHC experiments saw proton beams for the first time after a two-year stop. Beam 2 (anticlockwise) made it through LHCb at 10.30 and Beam 1 (clockwise) passed through ALICE at 17.00. The two experiments were
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COMPASS paves the way to new discoveries
COMPASS paves the way to new discoveries COMPASS, a “COmmon Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy”, is a multipurpose high-energy physics experiment at the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). Following the approval of the project in 1997 the spectrometer was installed in 1999 – 2000 and was commissioned during a technical run in 2001
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Accelerating Argon Ions at the SPS
Accelerating Argon Ions at the SPS This year, the SPS accelerated argon ions for the first time, delivering beam to the NA61/SHINE experiment in the North Area. NA61/SHINE explores the phenomenon of deconfinement by studying the collisions of ions of different masses, at different energies. As argon ions are much lighter than lead ions that
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Big Science: What’s it Worth?
Big Science: What's it Worth? BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/big-science-whats-it-worth) The report “BIG SCIENCE: What’s it Worth?” was published last week by Science/Business Publishing (www.sciencebusiness.net). It offers a useful read both for scientists but also for those involved in outreach activities or actively involved in policy-making in fundamental research. In his foreword
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New website for TH division
New website for TH division TH's new website went live in February, after over a year of consultation, design and programming. It replaces the TH Unit's previous website, which was nine years old and in need of an overhaul. Aside from a new look, the site’s contents have been reorganised to facilitate navigation and supplemented
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A special visit to CERN’s new safety training centre
A special visit to CERN's new safety training centre Last month, Livio Mapelli, Head of the PH Department, Frederic Hemmer, Head of IT Department and Lluis Miralles, Head of the GS department, visited the new Safety Training Centre in Prévessin. Gilles Colin and Christoph Balle had organized this special visit for the management of the
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CERN 60 Public Computing Challenge: Completed
CERN 60 Public Computing Challenge: Completed As part of the celebrations for Organisation’s 60th anniversary, Citizen Cyberlab and CERN launched the CERN 60 Public Computing Challenge, which was completed on Saturday 20 December, with the aim of testing a new browser-based approach to volunteer computing. CERN physicists often use event generators to simulate particle collisions
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Interview with Savas Dimopoulos
Interview with Savas Dimopoulos Professor Dimopoulos is searching for answers to some of the most profound mysteries of nature. In this interview we discuss the recent findings of the LHC and his expectations about future HEP experiments, the quest for "truth" that seems to inform our scientific endeavours, as well as the relation between science
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2015 TH Winter School
2015 TH Winter School The 2015 CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings, and Gauge Theory took place, from Monday, February 2 to Friday, February 6, at CERN. It was organized by J. Drummond, K. Papadodimas, B. Pioline of the CERN Theory Division and sponsored by the CERN Theory Division, and the Arnold Sommerfeld Center at
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ERC rewards CERN researchers
ERC rewards CERN researchers The ERC fosters scientific excellence in Europe through competitive funding. Its grants are awarded to projects headed by researchers – both beginning-of-career and established – via an open, peer-reviewed competition. In December 2014, Magdalena Kowalska and Claude Duhr were awarded grants to pursue research in ultra-sensitive nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in