Category: Newsletter
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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
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A wealth of data for “Beamline for Schools” competition
A wealth of data for "Beamline for Schools" competition After a week of shifts on the T9 beamline at CERN, two teams of high-school students – the winners of CERN's first ever "Beamline for schools" contest – are ready to analyse their data. BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/wealth-data-beamline-schools-competition) CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer
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ISOLDE first to produce physics after the LS1
ISOLDE first to produce physics after the LS1 ISOLDE, CERN’s nuclear physics facility started physics the 1st of August. Several experiments have already been completed thanks to the wonderful job done by Magdalena Kowalska, our beam coordinator, the technical CERN team and all the users that worked intensively to produce the best physics possible. Up
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3rd International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics
3rd International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics The Third International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICNFP) was held July 31-August 6, 2014, at the conference center of the Orthodox Academy of Crete, situated near Kolymbari on Crete’s north-west coast. The conference was preceded by a two-day workshop on the physics of FAIR. The