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December 2022 - February 2023
The ATLAS trigger system consists of a first-level trigger based on custom electronics and firmware, and a high-level software trigger (HLT) running on off-the-shelf hardware. The first level trigger (see Figure 1) uses information from calorimeters…
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December 2022 - February 2023
Following an intense period of upgrades, a totally revamped ALICE experiment statred a very challenging period of commissioning with beam and data-taking during the first year of the LHC Run 3. The ALICE detector has undergone a major upgrade…
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December 2022 - February 2023
Even though Run-3 data taking has only just started, the preparations for the next phase of the LHC physics programme are well under way. Just like the LHC, during LS3 many of the LHC experiments will receive significant upgrades. In order to…
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December 2022 - February 2023
Run 3 started on July 5, 2022, and paused with the shutdown of the machine on Monday, November 28 at 6 a.m. CMS recorded an integrated luminosity of nearly 40/fb (see Fig. 1, making for a particularly fruitful startup run. Figure 1: Luminosity…
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December 2022 - February 2023
High-performance electromagnetic calorimeters often make use of inorganic crystal scintillators. Their high density makes them well suited for the construction of large homogeneous detectors where the scintillating material simultaneously serves as…
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December 2022 - February 2023
A wide range of gas mixtures is used for the operation of different gaseous detectors for particle physics research. Among them there are greenhouse gases like C2H2F4 (R134a), CF4 (R14), C4F10 (R610) and SF6, which are needed because they allow to…
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December 2022 - February 2023
SHINE (SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment) [1] is a multi-purpose experiment studying hadron production in hadron-proton, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions. The programme on strong interactions includes studying the properties…
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December 2022 - February 2023
Installation location of the LHCf Arm2 detector in the absorber region 140m right of the ATLAS interaction point The first LHCf special run of the LHC Run 3 was successfully completed in September 2022, with the LHC providing the highest…
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