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On Friday October 10th 2014 at 21:13, for the first time, the primary 24 GeV/c proton beam slow-extracted from the PS went trough the new East Area Irradiation Facility (EA-IRRAD) reaching the beam dump located downstream the T8 beam line. This…

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On 21 September this year, CLOUD restarted experiments following the end of LS1 for the PS. Many thanks to Lau Gatignon and the PS team for their efficient re-commissioning of the beam. During LS1, in October-November 2013, CLOUD had carried out a…

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After the long-shut down the SPS accelerator restarted in the beginning of October along with a new experiment, NA62.  In contrast to the LHC, where new physics is studied at the highest possible energy, NA62 challenges the Standard Model by looking…

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The second ECFA High Luminosity LHC Experiments Workshop was held in Aix-les-Bains, France, from the 21st to the 23rd of October 2014. The first such workshop last year was organized as a follow on from the Update of the European Strategy for…

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From 23 to 26 October, the delegates from each successful participating organization in 2014 Google Summer of Code were invited to Google for a reunion, to greet, collaborate, and code. The CERN PH/SFT group was there as well, having participated…

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When Jean-Daniel Colladon, a 38-year-old Swiss professor at the University of Geneva, demonstrated in 1841 for the first time light guiding due to total internal reflection in a jet of water [1], he may hardly have divined the range and importance…

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Public lecture: "The Long Road to the LHC" by Prof. Lyn Evans, Dr Daniel Treille and Prof. Peter Jenni. Lecture by Lyn Evans The key to the discovery of the Higgs boson has been the development of particle accelerators at CERN through the years. I…

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