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March 2024 - June 2024
Plastic scintillator detectors, which are cost-effective due to the affordability of plastic materials, are extensively employed in high-energy physics experiments. They play a crucial role in identifying and tracking particles, conducting time-of-…
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March 2024 - June 2024
Nowadays, one of the most important issues that human beings are facing is the fact that reducing carbon emission is extremely necessary. New materials for a sustainable future are required for the world to become climate neutral. The huge demand…
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March 2024 - June 2024
The seeds of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) were sown a decade ago at a pivotal meeting of physicists at the University of Geneva in 2013. This gathering responded to a call from the European Strategy for Particle Physics, which highlighted the…
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March 2024 - June 2024
In 2012 the ATLAS and CMS collaborations discovered a new particle that – within the present theoretical and experimental uncertainties – is consistent with the predictions for the Higgs boson of the Standard Model (SM) at a mass of about 125 GeV.…
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December 2023 - February 2024
Atomic nuclei come in all manner of shapes and sizes, sometimes at the same time! The reason behind this diversity lies in poorly understood nuclear forces. Many features of these forces only came to light when studying very unstable nuclei, which…
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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
Atmospheric aerosols are tiny solid or liquid droplets suspended in the air. They are all around us, emitted from a variety of natural and anthropogenic sources. Although aerosol particles are too small to be seen with the human eye, they have a…
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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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December 2023 - February 2024
Silicon solid state detectors have been developed over a long time to address the challenges of particle tracking and vertexing. At the LHC, when the machine reaches its full design regime, it collides proton bunches at a rate of 40 million times…
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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 result examines data collected during Run 3 of the LHC – with protons colliding at a record energy of 13.6 TeV – and pioneers the use…
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