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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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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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March 2023 - May 2023

The proton irradiation facility (IRRAD) at the PS East Area was built during the LS1 to cope with the increasing needs for radiation tests of the experimental community working for the HL upgrade of the LHC and beyond. The IRRAD facility, operated…

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March 2023 - May 2023

In November 2022 the magnet service team of the Detector Technology group performed the mapping of the superconducting solenoid in the sPHENIX experiment at BNL (US). The two-week long campaign was the culmination of preparations that started during…

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March 2023 - May 2023

The Flow TUbe System (FLOTUS) during its installation at CLOUD, November 2022. Credit: Maximilien Brice, CERN   Introduction Atmospheric aerosols are tiny solid or liquid particles that are suspended in the Earth's atmosphere. Aerosol particles can…

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