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April 2024 - June 2024
The High-Luminosity LHC upgrade will provide an unprecedented challenge to the data acquisition and online event processing capabilities of ATLAS and CMS. Both experiments are currently undergoing major upgrades to prepare their detectors to cope…
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April 2024 - June 2024
Earth Observation (EO) and particle physics research have more in common than you might think. In both environments, whether capturing fleeting particle collisions or detecting transient traces of ocean plastics, rapid and accurate data analysis is…
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April 2024 - June 2024
In 1984, Alvaro de Rujula pointed out that the proton-proton collisions at the LHC would produce large fluxes of very high energy neutrinos in the forward direction [1]. In 2023, almost 40 years later, the FASER and SND experiments ushered in the…
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April 2024 - June 2024
Full speed ahead Layout of the SHiP experiment, with the target on the left and the experiment in the ECN3 hall. Credit: SHiP collaboration. In a significant step forward for particle physics, CERN’s Research Board recently approved the SHiP (…
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March 2024 - June 2024
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN smashes particles together at record-breaking energies and intensities, unlocking the secrets of our universe. But lurking beneath the excitement of groundbreaking discoveries lies a constant battle against…
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March 2024 - June 2024
We are well-used to long lead times in particle physics. Detectors that are commissioned often rely on technology that was in an R&D phase decades before and now, as the CERN community, we now plan for new accelerators that will still be…
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March 2024 - June 2024
At CERN experiments, some particle detector systems are operated with gas mixtures containing fluorinated gases. These gases are essential for achieving the specific detector performance required for data taking (e.g., long-term stability, time…
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March 2024 - June 2024
In August 2023, the ATLAS Collaboration presented the most comprehensive results to date of searches for electroweak production of supersymmetric particles interpreted within the Phenomenological Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (pMSSM)…
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March 2024 - June 2024
The strategic EP R&D programme on technologies for future experiments pursues an ambitious development programme for advanced silicon detectors. Achieving reliable, high-performance, large-area tracking and timing detector systems with minimal…
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March 2024 - June 2024
Improvements implemented in the CMS trigger and data acquisition systems before the start of Run 3 LHC in 2022 have enabled an increase in both the event rate and the volume of useful data collected by the CMS detector, thereby broadening its…
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