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One of PH/ESE’s flagship projects is the Radiation Hard Optical Link project for LHC, a common development for all LHC experiments and other interested collaborations. The objective of the project is to supply experiments with a radiation hard…

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The last edition of this letter ended with the optimistic remark that CMS after the end of LS1 would be perfectly prepared for the exciting times ahead of us. And indeed the final steps of LS1 went smoothly with CMS ready for the first beams. In…

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Last May, the newsletter reported about the two-month pilot run of 2014 and how NA62 was preparing for the 2015 data taking:  this became reality for five months between mid-June and mid-November, an exciting but exhausting period for our…

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MoEDAL is a pioneering experiment designed to search for highly ionizing avatars of new physics such as magnetic monopoles or massive (pseudo-)stable charged particles. Its physics program defines over 34 scenarios that yield potentially…

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The core of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) project is a hadron collider called "FCC-hh" which aims at colliding proton beams with a centre of mass energy of 100 TeV - more than seven times the energy that can be reached in the LHC. A…

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The end of year is traditionally the time when SFT makes new releases of our main software products. It is a very busy time with everyone working energetically to meet various deadlines. All last minute changes and fixes need to be integrated and…

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The NA62 experiment is the successor of a previous kaon decay experiment (NA48) operated in the same experimental area at the CERN SPS (see Fig.1). In December 2008, the CERN Research Board has authorized the collaboration to build new detectors,…

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Although they lack the fundamental significance of the constants of Nature, powers of 10 have symbolic importance in human culture. Attaining the age of 100 years is rare enough to be celebrated in many ways around the world. We regularly…

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