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December 2023 - February 2024
The ATLAS Collaboration has just released a new measurement of the production cross-section of two Z bosons. This highlight result examines data collected during Run 3 of the LHC – with protons colliding at a record energy of 13.6 TeV – and pioneers…
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December 2023 - February 2024
DIRAC and Rucio are two software projects used for scientific computing. Both projects are led by CERN, and the EP department is one of the major contributors to both. DIRAC is used by CERN experiments such as LHCb, CLIC, FCC, NA62, and non-CERN…
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December 2023 - February 2024
The ATLAS and CMS Experiments at CERN have just released a new measurement of the mass of the top quark. The new result combines 15 previous measurements to give the most precise determination of the top-quark mass to date. Among the known…
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December 2023 - February 2024
In a paper published earlier this autumn in Nature, the ALPHA collaboration at CERN’s Antimatter Factory shows that, within the precision of their experiment, atoms of antihydrogen – a positron orbiting an antiproton – fall to Earth in the same way…
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December 2023 - February 2024
The LHC schedule for 2023 has been revised following the emergence of a leak in mid-July. The decision was to stop the regular proton running this year and focus on the heavy ion physics that was already scheduled for the year-end. This was…
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December 2023 - February 2024
In recent years, the physics of feebly-interacting particles (FIPs) has received considerable and growing attention from the broad HEP community, motivated by both existing data, and by the appeal of simple extensions of the Standard Model to…
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December 2023 - February 2024
When astronauts look at the Earth from orbit, they are often awed by its beauty and isolation. They speak of the overview effect; a cognitive shift to a new larger perspective that gives context and meaning to their lives. For physicists, a similar…
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December 2023 - February 2024
The New Small Wheel (NSW) [1] has been the largest Phase-1 upgrade project of ATLAS. The two innermost stations of the Endcap Muon spectrometer have been replaced with two newly built detector systems based on small-strip Thin Gap Chambers (sTGC)…
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