Category: Newsletter
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Radiation Monitors Tested on Orion Space mission
Radiation Monitors Tested on Orion Space mission On Friday 5 December, NASA's new Orion spaceship, a capsule built to take humans further into space than ever before, made its first test flight. The flight marked the first time, since Apollo 17 was launched to the moon in 1972, that a spacecraft built for humans traveled
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Celebrating ISOLDE’s 50th anniversary
Celebrating ISOLDE's 50th anniversary On the 17th December 1964, Victor Frederick Weisskopf, who was strongly supporting diversity in CERN's scientific programme, gave the green light to a proposal for an isotope separator on-line with the CERN synchro-cyclotron, marking the beginning of ISOLDE's journey. The plan was to construct a first class facility to produce radioactive
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CERN’s strategy for neutrino physics
CERN's strategy for neutrino physics The understanding of the neutrino sector is a worldwide priority promising physics beyond the Standard Model in a unified theoretical framework that goes from the electroweak scale to the highest energy scales. Following the Higgs boson discovery, massive neutrinos are now firmly set at the frontier of knowledge in particle
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New Book: “60 Years of CERN Experiments and Discoveries”
New Book: "60 Years of CERN Experiments and Discoveries" The upcoming book 60 Years of CERN Experiments and Discoveries, edited by Herwig Schopper and Luigi Di Lella traces CERN’s exciting journey from its creation in the 1950s to the discovery of the Higgs particle in 2012. It presents the results that led to scientific breakthroughs
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Interview with Sergio Bertolucci
Interview with Sergio Bertolucci BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/interview-sergio-bertolucci) P.C. What does your role as CERN’s Director of Research and Scientific Computing entail? S.B. My two main duties are to act as the interface between CERN as host laboratory and the experimental collaborations and to supervise the Physics and Computing Departments of
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PH Department’s Plenary Meeting
PH Department's Plenary Meeting In the PH Plenary Meeting that took place on 22 January Livio Mapelli, Head of the PH Department, presented the activities of the PH in 2014, and gave an overview of its plans for the future. Fabiola Gianotti, the incoming DG, attended the Meeting and was notified of the current developments
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Editorial – February 2015
Editorial – February 2015 Dear Colleagues, This year is going to be an important one for CERN, with the excitement of the restart of the LHC after its long shutdown, and a change of management at the end of the year . I had the pleasure to present the status and plans of the various
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Director General of UNOG presents the UN world and the relations with CERN
Director General of UNOG presents the UN world and the relations with CERN BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/director-general-unog-presents-un-world-and-relations-cern) To strengthen even more its links with the United Nations and the world of multilateral diplomacy, CERN is launching a new series of seminars aiming to introduce other international organisations to CERN’s internal audience.
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An interview with Dr. Georg Bednorz
An interview with Dr. Georg Bednorz In this interview, Dr Georg Bednorz, Nobel Prize in physics and research scientist at the IBM Zürich research center recalls the early days of this discovery and discusses future applications and challenges in the field. Earlier in autumn he was invited by the University of Geneva to give a
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A successful year for the PH-DT group
A successful year for the PH-DT group In 2014 DT has been engaged in an extensive programme, supporting and finalizing the consolidation and maintenance work for various experiments at CERN, as well as for the users community. This year was equally difficult and successful. LS1 activities for the LHC experiments have been varied and intense