Category: Newsletter
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A future e+e- circular collider
A future e+e- circular collider As discussed during the FCC kick-off meeting, there is more than one variety of FCC under study. Besides the long-term goal of a 100 TeV proton-proton collider, the study includes, as a first step, a 90-400 GeV high-luminosity e+e– machine, FCC-ee, a.k.a. TLEP,sensitive to new physics but not only at
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A future proton-proton collider
A future proton-proton collider The very stimulating FCC kick-off meeting was an occasion to discuss preliminary ideas about the physics case and potential of a 100 TeV proton-proton collider (FCC-hh), the experimental challenges and possible detector layouts. The FCC-hh activity started in November 2013. It already benefitted a lot from previous and ongoing efforts elsewhere
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Virtual Atom Smasher: contribute to CERN’s scientific discoveries
Virtual Atom Smasher: contribute to CERN's scientific discoveries Theoretical physicists at CERN are testing different theories that describe the nature of the particle world and their interactions in subatomic level. They create mathematical models that describe the theories and they use them to simulate high-energy particle collisions. The software used for this process are called
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Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics, AEPSHEP2014
Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics, AEPSHEP2014 The second Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics, AEPSHEP2014, will be held in Puri, India, 4-17 November 2014, is open for applications (deadline 11 April 2014). AEPSHEP is held every second year, hosted in countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The first School in the series was held in Fukuoka, Japan
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Why is physics beautiful?
Why is physics beautiful? The physics done at CERN aims at understanding how particles and forces act in the subatomic world and are organized to form everything we observe around us. By using what we learn on the path towards larger and larger collision energies, we also model the first instants after the Big Bang,
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ICTR-PHE 2014: Uniting physics, biology and medicine
ICTR-PHE 2014: Uniting physics, biology and medicine The ICTR-PHE 2014 conference, co-chaired by Jacques Bernier and Manjit Dosanjh, introduced a fresh approach to the medical applications that the fundamental research conducted at CERN can have. Detector techniques developed by physicists are no longer confined to cancer treatment; innovative solutions for better healthcare are on the
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Editorial – May 2014
Editorial – May 2014 Dear Colleagues, Although still in full swing of the preparation of the next round of data taking, due to start early next year, the LHC experiments are more and more intensively looking into the future. Therefore, this issue of the PH Newsletter is focused on their upgrade programmes, in particular the
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Discussing the FCC plans with Michelangelo Mangano
Discussing the FCC plans with Michelangelo Mangano The FCC Kick-off meeting took place in Geneva earlier in February as a response to one of the directions emphasized by the European Strategy for Particle Physics. But is it the right time to start exploring this direction? Michelangelo Mangano says: “The LHC will saturate its exploration potential
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PH Plenary Meeting
PH Plenary Meeting The PH Department is organizing a plenary meeting that will be held on Monday 24 February at 15:30 at the Globe. The meeting will also be video-transmitted in the Council Chamber. The scope of the meeting is to have a a presentation addressing all the personnel of PH and describing the scientific
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RD53: Development of pixel readout integrated circuits for extreme rate and radiation.
RD53: Development of pixel readout integrated circuits for extreme rate and radiation. In June 2013 the LHCC has endorsed the establishment of a new R&D collaboration, RD53, to address the challenges of making readout integrated circuits for the phase 2 pixel detector upgrades of ATLAS and CMS, as well as long term developments of interest