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April 2025 - June 2025
Four CO2 cooling plants and accumulators in the service cavern of CMS in May 2025. (Photo by Jérôme Daguin) During recent shutdown periods, CERN engineers and technicians — in collaboration with the ATLAS and CMS teams — began installing the…
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April 2025 - June 2025
The strategic R&D programme on technologies for future experiments by the CERN EP department is currently in its second phase from 2024 until 2028. Within this effort, Work Package (WP) 3 focusses on the development of calorimetry and light-…
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April 2025 - June 2025
May 7th 2025, 8:15 AM. Many colleagues from all EP groups are gathering in front of the main auditorium. Colourful posters are being exhibited in the lobby. People who don’t see each other often profit from the occasion to chat a bit. It is the…
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April 2025 - June 2025
Introduction The ATLAS ITk (Inner TracKer) is a new all-silicon tracker that will replace the existing ATLAS Inner Detector (ID) to meet the requirements imposed by the high-radiation and high-hit occupancy environments of the HL-LHC (High-…
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April 2025 - June 2025
The Detector Technologies (EP-DT) group has played a vital role in 2024 in advancing experimental capabilities across CERN’s LHC and non-LHC programmes. As outlined in the group’s recently published annual report, their contributions span from…
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April 2025 - June 2025
FCC Week 2025, held in Vienna, provided a timely opportunity to review the project’s scientific and technical progress, ushering in the next phase of design and development. The results of the Feasibility Study will serve as a key input to the next…
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April 2025 - June 2025
The Versatile Link project[1] was initially developed to provide a point-to-point radiation-hardened optical link common to most CERN experiments which upgraded during Long Shutdown 2 (LS2). The Beam Instrumentation group (SY-BI) also adopted it as…
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April 2025 - June 2025
On 15 May 2025, CMS officially inaugurated its new control room at Point 5 in Cessy, France. The celebration brought together guests from CERN management and representatives of all LHC experiments to mark this significant upgrade to CMS’s…
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April 2025 - June 2025
The foreseen increase in luminosity and pileup at the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) [1] will challenge both the detector hardware and the reconstruction software. With higher pile-up, calorimeter energy reconstruction depends even…
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April 2025 - June 2025
Since its launch aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in May 2011, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) has recorded more than 250 billion cosmic-ray events, offering precision measurements of the composition and energy spectra of…
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