Category: Newsletter
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PH Department: at the heart of CERN
PH Department: at the heart of CERN The Physics Department is where the Laboratory’s scientific activity takes place. Some 1000 members of the personnel and 11,000 users work together on CERN’s highly-diversified experimental programme. The challenges for the coming years are twofold: maintain the level of excellence that led the Laboratory to the discovery of
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CLIC workshop highlights common challenges for future detector R&D
CLIC workshop highlights common challenges for future detector R&D The open session at the beginning of the recent CLIC workshop, held at CERN 3-7 Feb, focused on preparing for CERN's long-term future. The High Luminosity upgrade of the LHC confirms CERN's presence at the high energy frontier for the next two decades. However, a series
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New management team for the PH department
New management team for the PH department Livio Mapelli as the new Department head will have two deputies, Ignatios Antoniadis who continues as head of the Theory Unit, and Roger Forty who will focus on the experimental programme. Catherine Decosse will be the new Departmental Planning Officer of the PH department taking over from Jose
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Roger Forty: New Deputy Head of the PH department
Roger Forty: New Deputy Head of the PH department BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/roger-forty-new-deputy-head-ph-department) Roger is British, and studied physics at Oxford University and then Imperial College London. His thesis was on a fixed-target experiment, studying the production of charmed particles with one of the first silicon micro-strip detectors. He came to
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The AEgIS Experiment
The AEgIS Experiment If apples fall down, do anti-apples fall up? Or do ordinary particles fall with the same acceleration as antiparticles? According to Einstein's Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP), gravity is independent of mass and composition, hence the answer to the above question should be yes. The WEP, however, has been tested successfully for matter,
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The 2014 European School of High-Energy Physics
The 2014 European School of High-Energy Physics The 2014 European School of High-Energy Physics will take place in the Netherlands from 18 June to 1 July 2014. The school is targeted particularly at students in experimental HEP who are in the final years of work towards their PhDs. You can find more details about the
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Editorial – February 2014
Editorial – February 2014 Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the first PH Newsletter for 2014. This is going to be an exciting year, with LS1 past its halfway point, and the injector chain starting up for physics. Preparations for Run 2 of the LHC will be in full swing, along with the planning for the upgrades,
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EDU group moves to CERN’s new Stakeholder Relations Office
EDU group moves to CERN's new Stakeholder Relations Office CERN recently launched the Stakeholder Relations Office, which will manage and sustain the Organization’s relationship with key audiences. Furthermore, it will take responsibility for the Organization’s reputation and ensure that CERN is “communicating optimally with everyone we care about and who cares about us” to use
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2014 CERN TH Winter School
2014 CERN TH Winter School CERN’s Winter School on Supergravity, Strings, and Gauge Theory is the analytic continuation of the yearly training school of the former EC-RTN string network “Constituents, Fundamental Forces and Symmetries of the Universe”. The 2014 edition of the school took place from Monday February 3 to Friday February 7, at CERN.
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Rosalind McLachlan, a virtual artist exploring CERN
Rosalind McLachlan, a virtual artist exploring CERN “How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and