In April, the MoEDAL collaboration submitted its first physics-research publication on the search for magnetic monopoles utilising a 160 kg prototype MoEDAL trapping detector exposed to 0.75 fb–1 of 8 TeV pp collisions, which was…
Read MORETwo of the LHC experiments, ATLAS and ALICE, recently announced winners of the “ATLAS PhD Grant” and “ALICE Thesis Award” schemes. The prizes aim to foster healthy competition between young members of the two collaborators and acknowledge the hard…
Read MOREThe Future Circular Collider study for hadron-hadron collisions/collider (FCC-hh) foresees a collision energy of 100 TeV, which is about 7 times higher than the LHC. For the detectors this means that in order to determine the properties of the…
Read MOREThe design study of the Future Circular Colliders (FCC) was initiated at the beginning of 2014, to identify post-LHC accelerator projects at CERN. The study has an emphasis on proton-proton (FCC-hh) and electron-positron (FCC-ee) colliders, and…
Read MOREFrom left to right, L.Deront, S.Ravat and A.Kehrli in front of the Safety and Control system racks developed and manufactured in PH-DT for the COMPASS solenoid. The PH-DT Instrumentation and Controls team has being developing a new safety system…
Read MOREDark Matter makes up a quarter of the universe and is five times more abundant than normal matter such as neutrons, protons, electrons and neutrinos. Without it, galaxies would fall apart, and stars would spin off into space. Yet we have not…
Read MOREAWAKE is an accelerator R&D experiment. In the coming years the AWAKE experiment should pave the way to understanding the physics and potential of proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration for future accelerators. Over the last fifty years,…
Read MOREThe Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a proposed e+e- collider to be built at CERN in order to serve the needs of the particle physics community beyond the high-luminosity LHC. The accelerator is foreseen to be built in several stages,…
Read MORE2015 has been extraordinary: after 2 years of shutdown (LS-1) the LHC and its experiments have come back into operation for a new exciting running period (Run-2) to push the research about the infinitely small structure of matter, related…
Read MOREAfter the Long Shutdown of 2013 and 2014, LHCb started to take data this year and collected during this year 320 pb-1 of proton-proton collisions at the center of mass energy of 13 TeV. The detector was almost identical to the one used during Run 1…
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