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December 2023 - February 2024
In recent years, the physics of feebly-interacting particles (FIPs) has received considerable and growing attention from the broad HEP community, motivated by both existing data, and by the appeal of simple extensions of the Standard Model to…
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December 2023 - February 2024
Atmospheric aerosols are tiny solid or liquid droplets suspended in the air. They are all around us, emitted from a variety of natural and anthropogenic sources. Although aerosol particles are too small to be seen with the human eye, they have a…
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December 2023 - February 2024
The New Small Wheel (NSW) [1] has been the largest Phase-1 upgrade project of ATLAS. The two innermost stations of the Endcap Muon spectrometer have been replaced with two newly built detector systems based on small-strip Thin Gap Chambers (sTGC)…
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December 2023 - February 2024
Silicon solid state detectors have been developed over a long time to address the challenges of particle tracking and vertexing. At the LHC, when the machine reaches its full design regime, it collides proton bunches at a rate of 40 million times…
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December 2023 - February 2024
The ATLAS Collaboration has just released a new measurement of the production cross-section of two Z bosons. This result examines data collected during Run 3 of the LHC – with protons colliding at a record energy of 13.6 TeV – and pioneers the use…
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December 2023 - February 2024
The ATLAS and CMS Experiments at CERN have just released a new measurement of the mass of the top quark. The new result combines 15 previous measurements to give the most precise determination of the top-quark mass to date. Among the known…
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December 2023 - February 2024
In a paper published earlier this autumn in Nature, the ALPHA collaboration at CERN’s Antimatter Factory shows that, within the precision of their experiment, atoms of antihydrogen – a positron orbiting an antiproton – fall to Earth in the…
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December 2023 - February 2024
The LHC schedule for 2023 has been revised following the emergence of a leak in mid-July. The decision was to stop the regular proton running this year and focus on the heavy ion physics that was already scheduled for the year-end. This was…
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December 2023 - February 2024
Earlier this summer, the 2023 Young Experimental Physicist Prize of the High Energy and Particle Physics Division of the European Physical Society – for early career experimental physicists – was awarded to CERN staff physicist Valentina Cairo for…
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