Newsletter Articles
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March 2024 - June 2024
When astronauts look at the Earth from orbit, they are often awed by its beauty and isolation. They speak of the overview effect; a cognitive shift to a new larger perspective that gives context and meaning to their lives. For physicists, a similar…
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December 2023 - February 2024
The first stage of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Integrated Project is a high-luminosity, high-energy electron-positron collider, serving as a Higgs, top and electroweak factory. The second stage is an energy frontier hadron collider, with a…
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June 2023 - August 2023
Jet substructure (JSS) has emerged as a powerful framework for studying the Standard Model (SM) and provides a key set of tools for probing nature at the highest energy scales accessible by terrestrial experiments. While not an experimental or…
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June 2023 - August 2023
The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment with the associated Beam Dump Facility (BDF), currently under consideration for implementation in the SPS ECN3 beam facility, is designed to perform a generic and exhaustive search for feebly…
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June 2023 - August 2023
Who breaks Electroweak symmetry? It sounds like a simple question and the Standard Model of Particle Physics, the prevailing theory for the last half century, has a simple answer - it’s the Higgs. The Standard Model theory predicts that the Higgs…
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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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