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One of the conclusions of the ESPPU 2013 process was that CERN should engage actively in the world accelerator based neutrino program. As a result, CERN joined, among others, the DUNE project and took a leading role in the construction of two…
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October-December 2024
One of the most fascinating characteristics of particles carrying colour charge, such as quarks and gluons, is their inability to exist as free entities in nature. They are indeed perpetually confined within colour-neutral composite particles known…
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October-December 2024
The unification of the electromagnetic and weak-nuclear forces into an electroweak theory was one of the major breakthroughs of 20th century particle physics. In the 1960s, Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow, and Abdus Salam proposed that these two…
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October-December 2024
Candidate event for the ZH → μμ cc process, where a Z boson and a Higgs boson decay to two muons (red tracks) and two charm-tagged jets (blue cones). (Image: ATLAS collaboration) In the summer of 2024, the ATLAS collaboration released two new…
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October-December 2024
Lead is an abundant element of the solar system and is particularly abundant on the Earth’s crust (Figure 1). The origin of three of its four stable isotopes (206Pb, 207Pb, and 208Pb) can be partially traced back to the decay of uranium and thorium…
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October-December 2024
The TOTEM experiment is designed to explore the proton interactions when they survive intact after the collisions. With this goal, special detectors have been placed far from the interaction points to detect a small angular deflection, due…
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October-December 2024
Using the Large Hadron Collider as a neutrino source is the goal of the SND@LHC experiment. High-energy neutrinos, from a few hundred GeV to a few TeV, have never been studied. Moreover, neutrinos, particularly electron and tau species, in the SND…
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October-December 2024
Thanks to the excellent beam conditions provided by the PS staff, combined with the efficiency of research groups participating in the n_TOF Collaboration, an intense experimental program has been performed during the 252 days of measurements of the…
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October-December 2024
Antimatter, often portrayed as the elusive counterpart to ordinary matter, has long captivated the scientific community with its potential to unlock some of the universe's most profound mysteries. Yet, one of the most significant challenges in…
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October-December 2024
Fibre optic links are crucial in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments, allowing the transmission of large volumes of data from particle detectors operating in harsh radiation environments to radiation-free zones. Silicon Photonics (SiPh) [1] has…
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