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The CERN injectors, up to the PS, started operations mid-June. The long-running ISOLDE radioactive ion-beam facility on the PS Booster resumed operations by the end of July. Several experiments that use protons from the PS are already…
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The evidence that some invisible (“dark”) matter exists in the universe was first observed many decades ago, by the Swiss physicist Fritz Zwicky in 1933, among others, from studying the relative movement of stars and galaxies, and was more recently…
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The first PATRAS Workshop took place at CERN in 2005. Last July, it returned to CERN for its tenth anniversary. The initial aim of this series of workshops was to provide academic training to the new generations of scientists working within the…
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CERN has a longstanding tradition of pursuing fundamental physics on extreme low and high energy scales. The present physics knowledge is successfully described by the Standard Model and the General Relativity. In the anti-matter regime many…
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With the results from LHC Run 1 as a backdrop, more than 100 physicists from 15 countries, including theorists, gathered on June 10 for a 2.5 day workshop hosted by the Zurich University to discuss alternative approaches to the remaining fundamental…
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The mirror system is an important part of the NA62 RICH detector* covering the full acceptance range of 7m2 surface. It is composed of 18 hexagonal (Ø≈70cm, thickness 2.5cm) and 2 semi-hexagonal mirrors which are sustained by a lightweight support…
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The PH/DT group has published its Annual Report where key activities throughout 2013 are described as well as a wider description of how the group is organized and interacts with the experimental community. The PH Detector Technology (DT) group is…
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