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It is now 18 months that LHCb has not seen any particle beam passing through the experimental area, and the collaboration is eagerly waiting for the start-up of Run II in spring 2015. But before this, the LHCb detector and all its services required…
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LS1 was an opportunity not only to upgrade detectors and accelerators but also the software used for analysis and data processing. The SFT team has worked closely throughout the year with software experts in the four LHC collaborations to prepare…
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Our understanding of the early Universe has greatly increased in the past few years due to the high-quality observational data on the cosmic microwave background and large scale structure. The unprecedented precision of the Planck results enabled…
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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…
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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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