Category: Newsletter
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25 years of Microelectronics at CERN: from LAA to the LHC
25 years of Microelectronics at CERN: from LAA to the LHC Last November, the success of the LAA R&D project that led to the development of microelectronics at CERN was celebrated. LAA was a well-defined R&D activity for the study of new detection techniques for the next generation of hadron-colliders that would reach the scale
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Letter from Sergio Bertolucci
Letter from Sergio Bertolucci Working with Philippe over the last five years has been a privilege and a pleasure. We had a pretty steep start in 2009, with the incident in the LHC forcing us to redefine our ambitions of early discoveries, with a non-LHC physics program that had been compressed close to extinction, and
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First beta release of ROOT 6
First beta release of ROOT 6 The ROOT team is proud to announce the first beta release of ROOT 6. This beta release is targeted at the LHC experiments' ongoing migration to ROOT 6. ROOT 6 is going to be a major update of the ROOT system. Notably the "good old" CINT C++ interpreter will
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First year of the LS1: a busy year for ALICE
First year of the LS1: a busy year for ALICE A very intense year for ALICE is coming to a close. The highly successful proton-lead run seems far in the past, although it actually took place at the beginning of this very year. The many interesting and unexpected results from this run have created a
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The new Geant4 release 10.0
The new Geant4 release 10.0 The new 2013 release of Geant4 is the first major release of the simulation toolkit since 2007. Release 10.0 incorporates many changes in almost all areas, including an evolved API for allowing efficient execution of simulation programs on modern parallel architectures, exploiting multi-threading with parallelisation at the event level. The
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The new ALICE Membership system
The new ALICE Membership system Catherine Decosse and Stefan Boettger have been collaborating closely with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) since the end of 2012 in order to create the new ALICE Membership system. The new system integrates, in an efficient way, functionalities in accordance with the requirements of the Run2 of
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Editorial – December 2013
Editorial – December 2013 Dear Colleagues 2013 has again been a great year. Let me thank all of you for your strong contribution and dedication to these successes. The future looks really bright! Time has come for me to pass the baton to Livio Mapelli and Roger Forty. It has been a great honour to
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ATLAS LS1 considerations
ATLAS LS1 considerations Ten months passed from the beginning of this very hectic Long Shutdown 1 (LS1) and ATLAS went already through so many changes and operations, that it becomes hard to list all of them. LS1 reminds me of the construction time when many people were working underground on the detector and the infrastructure.
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New Nominations
New Nominations Pippa Well is the new Chaiperson of CERN Fellow & Associates Committe replacing R.Voss.
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Young scientist from PH/ESE group wins IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society 2013 Radiation Instrumentation Early Career Award
Young scientist from PH/ESE group wins IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society 2013 Radiation Instrumentation Early Career Award Rafael Ballabriga Sune, a young scientist working within the ESE group, has been presented with the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society 2013 Radiation Instrumentation Early Career Award "for the implementation of a new approach to spectroscopic