Even if neutrino oscillations were discovered more than 20 years ago, our knowledge of mixing, flavor oscillation and CP violation in the neutrino sector is still far from the precision achieved for quarks. CP violation in the quark sector was…
Read MOREOn March 5th the CERN Research Board approved the ForwArd Search ExpeRiment (FASER), for installation at the LHC during Long Shutdown 2. FASER is an experiment designed to broaden the search for new physics at the LHC, by looking for light, weakly-…
Read MORESince the beginning of 2019, a new building at CERN is ready to house ongoing R&D activities that will push the performance of detectors to cope with the high performance of the LHC. Building No.107 (replacing the building 102) offers a…
Read MORETo prepare for the higher collision energy and luminosity of the subsequent running period of the LHC significant improvements are ongoing in the CMS detector. One of the planned upgrades is the installation of large-area GEM detectors in the…
Read MOREOptical links have become ubiquitous in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments to transport data generated from the particle detectors and other control points along the accelerator to the processing electronics. So far, links based on both single-…
Read MOREThe fifth workshop on Medical Applications of Spectroscopic X-ray Detectors (specXray) took place at CERN from 13 to 17th of May. Since its establishment in 2011, the workshop has brought together specialists from different but related…
Read MOREWith the recent completion of the second phase of HIE-ISOLDE, CERN’s ISOLDE facility has a machine capable of answering long-unanswered questions about the nature of the nucleus. The installation of 4 cryomodules in 2018 allowed for the acceleration…
Read MOREThe discovery of the Higgs boson has ushered in a new era of exploration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Persistent tensions in the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics compel us to seek out physics beyond the SM (BSM) at the TeV scale, and…
Read MOREThe LHC offers a very detailed knowledge of how the Standard Model particles interact, but we know that this knowledge is incomplete. A number of experimental data and theoretical motivations point to the existence of new physics beyond the…
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