With COMPASS-II CERN enters in the exploration of a new territory: the structure of the proton in multiple dimensions. While COMPASS-I primarily studied the distribution and polarisation of quarks and gluons in the nucleon as a function of the…
Read MOREIn August the ALICE experiment published a precise measurement of the difference between ratios of the mass and electric charge of light nuclei and antinuclei produced during heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. The article published in the journal…
Read MOREMössbauer spectroscopy (MS) is named after Rudolf L. Mössbauer (1929-2011) who found the effect in 1957 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery in 1961. MS makes use of recoilless nuclear resonance fluorescence of gamma rays…
Read MOREData Quality Monitoring (DQM) is an important aspect of every high-energy physics experiment. In the era of LHC, when the detectors are extremely sophisticated devices, an online feedback on the quality of the data recorded is needed to avoid taking…
Read MOREThe TDCpix, which stands for Time-to-Digital Converter Pixel ASIC, measures the position and arrival time of incident beam particles in the Gigatracker detector of the NA62 experiment. Its design architecture stems from experience with silicon pixel…
Read MOREIn May 2015, the first public release was made of Virtual Atom Smasher, an educational game platform that was developed by a partnership between CERN and Citizen Cyberlab. During the Challenge, more than 19 billion particle collisions in the LHC and…
Read MORELast month, the High Energy and Particle Physics division of the European Physical Society announced the 2015 prizes for outstanding contributions in the field of high energy physics. The 2015 Young Experimental Physicist Prize was awarded to…
Read MOREApril 28th would have marked the 92nd birthday of Bruno Zumino, who died last year. The Theory Group organized a meeting around this date to honour his memory and to discuss his legacy. The presentations with slides and videos can be found…
Read MOREThe CERN PH/SFT group is participating for the fifth year in the 2015 Google Summer of Code programme. The Google Summer of Code is a global programme funded by Google that offers post-secondary student developers a three month stipend to write…
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