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At a fundamental level, our Universe is made of particles, forces, interactions, and the fabric of space and time. Spacetime forms the ever-evolving stage on which the play of the cosmos unfolds, while the particles are the players. They can bind…

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In order to fully exploit the HL-LHC luminosities, the innermost stations, the so called Small Wheels (SW), of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer need to be replaced, by two new detector assemblies called New Small Wheels (NSW). This upgrade is…

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The CERN proton irradiation facility (IRRAD – www.cern.ch/ps-irrad) at the PS East Area and the new gamma irradiation facility (GIF++ - www.cern.ch/gif-irrad) at the SPS North Area have been designed and built during LS1 to cope with the increasing…

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Following the success of the AMVA4NewPhysics network, a new 4-year Innovative Training Network funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission will develop new statistical methods and boost the use of machine learning (ML) to solve…

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The effort to address the remaining open questions of the Standard Model lies at the core of the HL-LHC physics programme and informs current design studies for post-LHC colliders (CLIC, FCC-ee, FCC-hh) as well as new fixed target experiments…

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MoEDAL, the LHC’s newest experiment [1], that started official data taking in 2015, is different to other collider detectors. It is currently comprised of passive tracking, using plastic Nuclear Track Detectors (NTDs) and trapping sub-detectors that…

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During the previous LHC runs, the LHCb experiment collected 10 fb-1  and performed many important measurement in the heavy flavour sector. However, many crucial measurements are statistically limited, with experimental precision not directly…

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The ALICE solenoid re-opens its door as the collaboration prepares for the detector upgrade planned for LS2. At 6 a.m. on December 3, 2018, the LHC expert team switched off the engine of the biggest particle accelerator in the world, which will…

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