Category: Newsletter
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ECFA Workshop: Planning for the High Luminosity LHC
ECFA Workshop: Planning for the High Luminosity LHC The second ECFA High Luminosity LHC Experiments Workshop was held in Aix-les-Bains, France, from the 21st to the 23rd of October 2014. The first such workshop last year was organized as a follow on from the Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, which identified Europe’s
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CERN’s 2015 Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics
CERN's 2015 Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics The 8th CERN – Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics will be organized at Ibarra, Ecuador, from 4 to 17 March 2015. The School, which is held every two years, is intended mainly for young physicists from Latin America in the final years of work towards their PhDs in
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2014 Google Summer of Code students present their projects
2014 Google Summer of Code students present their projects BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/2014-google-summer-code-students-present-their-projects) From 23 to 26 October, the delegates from each successful participating organization in 2014 Google Summer of Code were invited to Google for a reunion, to greet, collaborate, and code. The CERN PH/SFT group was there as well,
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The ALICE TPC Upgrade Plans
The ALICE TPC Upgrade Plans The expected lead-lead collision rate in the LHC Run3 (2019 onwards) is 50 kHz. This corresponds, on average, to a collision every 20 μs. In the ALICE TPC, a 90 m3 gas volume where ionization electrons take 100 μs to drift the full 2.5 m distance to the Readout Chambers,
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Upgrading LHCb with a Large Scintillating Fibre Tracker
Upgrading LHCb with a Large Scintillating Fibre Tracker When Jean-Daniel Colladon, a 38-year-old Swiss professor at the University of Geneva, demonstrated in 1841 for the first time light guiding due to total internal reflection in a jet of water [1], he may hardly have divined the range and importance of the applications his discovery might
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Public lecture: “The Long Road to the LHC”
Public lecture: "The Long Road to the LHC" BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/public-lecture-long-road-lhc) Public lecture: “The Long Road to the LHC” by Prof. Lyn Evans, Dr Daniel Treille and Prof. Peter Jenni. Lecture by Lyn Evans The key to the discovery of the Higgs boson has been the development of particle accelerators
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Editorial – September 2014
Editorial – September 2014 Dear Colleagues, This is an exciting time at CERN, with the accelerator chain starting up again after the long shutdown. Although the LHC will not be ready for data taking until next Spring, the rest of the broad program of physics is coming back to life. In particular, the facilities for
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Commissioning tests of the AIDA telescope
Commissioning tests of the AIDA telescope The high-resolution pixel telescope, initially developed in the EU FP6 EUDET project, has gained global recognition. In 2014, the last year of the EU FP7 AIDA project, we continue implementing improvements aiming to make the facility more useful for the detectors that are developed for the upgraded LHC experiments.
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Pixel-detector tests for CLIC with the AIDA beam telescope
Pixel-detector tests for CLIC with the AIDA beam telescope The PH Linear Collider Detector group (PH-LCD) was the first user of the new AIDA beam telescope in August, taking data with silicon pixel-detector prototypes under development for a future vertex detector at the CLIC high-energy linear electron-positron collider. The PS-T9 beamline in August 2014. The
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LHCb test beam programme
LHCb test beam programme The LHCb test beam programme is motivated by the upgrade of the experiment scheduled for installation in 2018/19, which requires the redesign of major components of the existing tracking and particle identification systems. The first period (25 July to 6 August), at the T9 beam line, was dedicated to the commissioning