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April 2025 - June 2025
Some of the most intriguing developments in physics begin not with a discovery, but with an anomaly, subtle, persistent, and difficult to ignore. In 2019, CMS reported a mild excess of around three standard deviations in a search for heavy…
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April 2025 - June 2025
The study of the polarisation of vector boson scattering (VBS) processes provides a unique test of the Higgs mechanism’s role in taming high-energy electroweak interactions, making it indispensable for fundamental physics for the last decades. As…
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April 2025 - June 2025
PAX UHV test chamber equipped with linear target manipulator and Ti x-ray window. The ADR cryostat containing the TES detector can be seen facing the chamber in its measurement position. X-rays from the antiprotonic atom cascade traverse the Ti…
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January 2025 - March 2025
The CMS collaboration is excited to announce the launch of its new monthly newsletter, "Le Point Cinq." This fresh communication channel will provide regular updates on CMS physics highlights, the progress of upgrade projects, and essential…
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January 2025 - March 2025
The quest to understand the nature of dark matter remains one of the most compelling challenges in modern physics. The NA64 experiment (see Fig. 1) at CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) has been at the forefront of efforts to explore dark sector…
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January 2025 - March 2025
Sketch of the FBCM location behind the last disk of the inner tracker (left) and a zoom to the two FBCM half discs forming a ring around the beam pipe with a detailed representation of the components on each service quadrant (right). The accuracy of…
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January 2025 - March 2025
The Experimental Physics (EP) R&D programme at CERN continues to serve as a cornerstone for technological innovation in particle physics, developing the next generation of detector systems that will empower future discoveries. Launched in 2020,…
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January 2025 - March 2025
Heavy-ion collisions (AA) at ultrarelativistic energies at the RHIC and LHC have produced during the last 25 and 15 years, respectively, an extremely hot and dense environment, a strongly interacting coloured medium named “quark-gluon plasma” (QGP…
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January 2025 - March 2025
Within the strategic EP R&D programme [1], WP2 covers developments of gaseous detector technologies for addressing the challenging needs of future experiments. The main research lines within WP2 cover the following activities: Exploring novel…
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January 2025 - March 2025
Irradiation is the process by which a material sample is exposed to radiation. This broad term encompasses various activities, from systematic qualification of components and materials following international standards to experimental research on…
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