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The RD50 collaboration “Radiation hard semiconductor devices for high luminosity colliders” is working on the development of radiation-tolerant silicon sensors for the detectors of the HL-LHC (High Luminosity-LHC) experiments and started to…

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The RD53 collaboration presented the RD53A large scale pixel chip demonstrator in 65nm CMOS technology as a vital milestone to make viable pixel detectors for the ATLAS and CMS phase 2 upgrades. The RD53 collaboration has during the last 4 years…

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In a paper published last month in Nature Physics, the ALICE collaboration reports that proton collisions sometimes present similar patterns to those observed in the collisions of heavy nuclei. This behaviour was spotted through observation of…

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Particle colliders generate an extremely large amount of high-energy interactions in order to produce and detect very rare events that can be used to improve our understanding of the underlying physical laws. In doing so, a significant background is…

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The field of dark matter (DM) particle physics is at an interesting stage, as key discoveries are anticipated. However, despite the intensive direct, indirect and LHC searches, the experiments have not yet yielded unambiguous Dark Matter (DM)…

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Last month, the LHCb collaboration presented results on the measurement of RK*0, which is the ratio of the probabilities that a B0 meson decays to an excited kaon and muons (K*0μ+μ-) or electrons (K*0e+e-).  By isolating and counting these decays,…

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The 5th of July marks the fifth anniversary since the discovery of a Higgs boson at the LHC. Summarizing notes for a recent set of lectures at the Asia-Europe-Pacific School of High-Energy Physics, John Ellis reviews events leading to the discovery…

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This year has been a busy one for HIE-ISOLDE, the high energy and intensity upgrade project at ISOLDE. In January 2017, another milestone was reached with the addition of the third cryomodule to the HIE-ISOLDE linear post-accelerator, increasing the…

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A new and upgraded pixel detector has just been installed in the heart of CMS in this extended year end technical stop (EYETS 2016-17), marking the end of a five year long construction project. The CMS pixel detector that was replaced was performing…

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