The 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…
Read MOREWith the advent of a new generation of neutrino experiments which leverage high-intensity neutrino beams for precision measurements, it is timely to explore the opportunity that these experiments offer for searches of beyond the standard model (BSM…
Read MOREThe “Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics” is the successor of the LEB and LECC Workshop series, which were initiated in 1994 by the LHC Electronics Board (LEB), an advisory board to the CERN LHC Experiments Committee. Since…
Read MORE*/ We live in a Universe of matter, which is a good thing but poses a problem: We know that in the Big Bang initially as much matter as antimatter was produced, and that the antimatter somehow disappeared. How this happened is one of the questions…
Read MOREIn addition to the ordinary atoms, abnormal or exotic atoms serve as tools to study in detail the structure of atoms and their interactions. Different exotic atoms, consisting of other building blocks than electrons, protons and neutrons, have been…
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