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June 2023 - August 2023
While the new Inner Tracking System detector, ITS2, could finally start its data taking in nominal operation for the RUN3 of LHC, ALICE is already working at replacing the three innermost layers during LS3. The ITS3 (Fig.1) is a new vertex detector…
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June 2023 - August 2023
The story starts in September 2022 while, during the ECAL Operations meeting our veteran electronics expert, Evgueni Vlassov reported that the voltage in one of the control cards was unstable. He prophetically proposed that the cause might be water…
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June 2023 - August 2023
All atoms heavier than bismuth, which has 83 protons, are radioactive and their isotopes have short half-lives, with few exceptions. As a result, the study of heavy atoms and their molecular compounds is complicated by the radioactive decay of the…
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June 2023 - August 2023
FASER is a new small LHC experiment designed to search for light, weakly interacting, long-lived beyond-standard model particles such as dark photons and to detect high energy neutrinos produced in proton-proton collisions. The FASER detector is…
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June 2023 - August 2023
The existence of Dark Matter (DM) has been inferred by Cosmology and Astrophysics through its gravitational effects. However, its microscopic nature remains one of the most pressing questions in particle physics. Scenarios in which the DM is a…
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June 2023 - August 2023
Fig. 1: Map of CVMFS cache instances. The tiered cache model is one of the techniques that helps to efficiently deploy software on /cvmfs to computing sites all over the world. Anyone who has ever used experimental software on CERN's computing…
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March 2023 - May 2023
Within the Standard Model (SM) the basic constituents of matter are the three "families" (two quarks and two leptons) with different quantum numbers, that completely determine the properties of these particles under the three fundamental forces…
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March 2023 - May 2023
For the past 40 years, the W boson has been making headlines. In the 1980s, the announcement of its discovery helped confirm the theory of the electroweak interaction – a unified description of electromagnetic and weak forces. Today, measurements of…
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