Dear colleagues in EP,

I hope this message finds you all well. I imagine you are all very busy with the ongoing run, the work towards the upgrades of the experiments, the data analysis and the many other activities you may be involved in. Nevertheless, I hope you find time to browse through this edition of the EP newsletter.

The articles in this newsletter show again the wide panorama of activities in EP. You may read about anomaly searches in CMS, measurements on flavor violation in LHCb and new results from FASER on neutrinos and on the search for ALPs.

Concerning upgrades of LHC experiments, there is an interesting article about the new ALICE subdetectors foreseen for installation in LS3: the ITS3 and the FoCal.

Don’t miss the article on the construction of the large cryostats for the DUNE experiment in the US. Although not at CERN, the Neutrino Platform and EP have assumed large responsibilities for the construction of this experiment. The CERN contributions are well advanced and so is the preparation of the underground facility in South Dakota.

ATLAS, CMS and LHCb have all released a significant amount of their collision data through the CERN Open Data Portal, marking a significant milestone in open science. The data comes with corresponding simulations, documentation, and metadata. I am very curious to see if this data will lead to the extraction of new physics results from outside the collaborations.

The results from AMS, the high energy experiment on the International Space Station operated by the ground station in Prévessin, are also fascinating. The article explains the foreseen upgrade of the AMS detector with a new tracking layer. If all goes according to plan, the new detector element will arrive at the ISS in January 2026.

Furthermore, you will find an interview with John Preskill, by Panos Charitos. John Preskill is a leading expert in quantum computing and the director of the institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech. The article also features an entertaining video on the difference between classical and quantum systems.

There is much more to read in this month's EP newsletter, and I leave it to you to discover.

The summer has arrived and many of you will also have plans for summer vacations. I wish you and your families a very relaxing time at your dream destination or at home, as you prefer. Those who may not leave now, because of the ongoing activities at CERN, will hopefully find time later for a well-deserved break.

All the best,

Manfred Krammer