Category: Newsletter
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Accelerating Innovation…in medicine
Accelerating Innovation…in medicine On Thursday 10 July, Eleanor A. Blakely, Ph.D., Senior Staff Biophysicist, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, gave seminar on: Reflections and perspectives on 60 years of particle therapy; the first of a new series of seminars proposed by the Medical Applications Team. It was in September 1954, when Dr John H.
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Browse the new websites of the DT and SFT groups
Browse the new websites of the DT and SFT groups During the first half of 2014 the PH-DT and PH-SFT groups published their new websites. They are the result of a technical student’s project and involved cooperation between two PH groups: the DT group funded the student, whilst the SFT group proved the supervision and
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ATLAS and LHCb evacuation exercises
ATLAS and LHCb evacuation exercises The PH department, in partnership with the HSE, the fire brigade, and the Group Leaders In Matters Of Safety (GLIMOS), conducts annual exercises to ensure safety at CERN. This year, as part of the continuous effort to improve even more the safety standards of CERN, evacuation exercises took place for
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CERN TH Institute on “Resurgence and Transseries in Quantum, Gauge and String Theories
CERN TH Institute on “Resurgence and Transseries in Quantum, Gauge and String Theories A CERN TH Institute on “Resurgence and Transseries in Quantum, Gauge and String Theories” was held at CERN from 30 June to 04 July. The goal of this CERN TH-Institute was to bring together mathematicians working on aspects of asymptotic analysis and
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SHiP Collaboration Hoist Sails
SHiP Collaboration Hoist Sails With the results from LHC Run 1 as a backdrop, more than 100 physicists from 15 countries, including theorists, gathered on June 10 for a 2.5 day workshop hosted by the Zurich University to discuss alternative approaches to the remaining fundamental questions about the foundation of the Universe. The aim of
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? The mirror system is an important part of the NA62 RICH detector* covering the full acceptance range of 7m2 surface. It is composed of 18 hexagonal (Ø≈70cm, thickness 2.5cm) and 2 semi-hexagonal mirrors which are sustained by a lightweight support structure made of
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CERN invites its neighbours to celebrate its 60th anniversary
CERN invites its neighbours to celebrate its 60th anniversary BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/cern-invites-its-neighbours-celebrate-its-60th-anniversary) CERN invites its neighbours to celebrate its 60th anniversary Come and discover the fantastic research that’s being performed right on your doorstep. CERN is organising a weekend of discovery especially for its neighbours, on Saturday 24 and Sunday
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Editorial – March 2014
Editorial – March 2014 Dear Colleagues, For this issue of the PH Newsletter we have focused on the activities related to the Future Circular Collider, which is being considered as a possible long term future for the laboratory, to follow the LHC. There was a recent kick-off meeting for these studies which was held in
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The ALICE Upgrade plans
The ALICE Upgrade plans ALICE, the LHC experiment specifically designed to study the physics of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) and, more generally, of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities is planning a major upgrade during the Long Shutdown 2 foreseen to start in 2018. The new ALICE will have significantly enhanced read-out capabilities
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The LHCb Upgrade
The LHCb Upgrade LHCb is a high precision experiment devoted to the search for new physics beyond the Standard Model by studying CP violation and rare decays in the b and c-quark sectors. By searching for deviations from the Standard Model due to virtual contributions of new heavy particles in loop diagrams, LHCb is sensitive