A two-day workshop was held at CERN on April 3rd and 4th to discuss a new initiative for establishing a collaboration that would foster the further development of scientific software packages for use in HEP experimental programmes world-wide. The…
Read MOREThe design of the NA62 straw tracker is driven by the requirement of low multiple scattering and high efficiency over the full acceptance. An ultra-light straw tracker operated in vacuum was chosen for this purpose. Extensive R&D was performed…
Read MOREThere was a time when CERN was the Mecca of deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering (DIS). Roughly 30-40 years ago, various muon and neutrino scattering experiments were pursued to develop the Quark-Parton Model of hadronic matter establishing…
Read MOREAs discussed during the FCC kick-off meeting, there is more than one variety of FCC under study. Besides the long-term goal of a 100 TeV proton-proton collider, the study includes, as a first step, a 90-400 GeV high-luminosity e+e- machine, FCC…
Read MOREThe FCC Kick-off meeting took place in Geneva earlier in February as a response to one of the directions emphasized by the European Strategy for Particle Physics. But is it the right time to start exploring this direction? Michelangelo Mangano says…
Read MOREIn June 2013 the LHCC has endorsed the establishment of a new R&D collaboration, RD53, to address the challenges of making readout integrated circuits for the phase 2 pixel detector upgrades of ATLAS and CMS, as well as long term developments of…
Read MOREThe open session at the beginning of the recent CLIC workshop, held at CERN 3-7 Feb, focused on preparing for CERN's long-term future. The High Luminosity upgrade of the LHC confirms CERN's presence at the high energy frontier for the next two…
Read MOREIf apples fall down, do anti-apples fall up? Or do ordinary particles fall with the same acceleration as antiparticles? According to Einstein's Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP), gravity is independent of mass and composition, hence the answer to the…
Read MORECERN recently launched the Stakeholder Relations Office, which will manage and sustain the Organization’s relationship with key audiences. Furthermore, it will take responsibility for the Organization’s reputation and ensure that CERN is “…
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