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NA62 Observes Ultra-Rare Kaon Decay to Pion and Neutrinos
The NA62 experiment at the CERN north area was built to investigate the ultra-rare K+ → π+νν̄ decay. Measurement of this decay, a golden mode for kaon physics, is considered a key flavour physics objective because it provides both a strong test of…
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Perturbed angular correlations at ISOLDE
Solid state physics and biophysics research has been conducted at ISOLDE-CERN for almost 50 years [JOH2017]. Our role in supporting experimental equipment and manpower has enabled the development of on-site laboratories. This has several advantages…
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Breakthrough in the cooling technologies of a single antiproton/proton at the BASE experiment
The Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) is recognized for performing the most precise measurements of the fundamental properties of antiprotons and protons, such as the 16 p.p.t. precision measurement of the antiproton-to-proton charge-to-…
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AMBER uncovers the universe’s mysteries
The AMBER spectrometer. Credit: K Bernhard-Novotny/A Sargsyan Despite our extensive knowledge, the universe remains mysterious in many ways. To this day, questions prevail about the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry. The exact sources of…
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ISOLDE’s New Beta-Decay Station Unlocks Advanced Decay-Spectroscopy Experiments with Laser-Polarised Unstable Nuclei
Exciting new opportunities for experiments with beta-decaying atomic nuclei have arisen at the ISOLDE facility with the recently developed new spectroscopy station called DeVITO [1]. The novelty of the setup lies in its integration with the VITO…
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Studying FIPs with FASER - recent news
Feebly Interacting Particles (FIPs) exist within both the Standard Model (SM) and in theories that extend beyond it. The FASER experiment [1] is the first of two experiments approved for data taking in Run 3 aiming to study these elusive particles.…
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Highlights from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, AMS, is a high-energy particle detector performing unprecedented-precision measurements of cosmic rays of rigidity (momentum/charge) ranging from GV to 3 TV on the International Space Station (ISS). AMS has now…
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MoEDAL-MAPP Experiment’s Quest for Anomalously Charged Avatars of New Physics
Nature, as described by the Standard Model (SM), has decreed that stable or pseudo-stable subnuclear charged particles can only have an observable electrical charge of ±1e, where e is the charge of an electron and that there is no magnetic charge.…
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Looking in all directions for long-lived particles at the LHC
In 1984, Alvaro de Rujula pointed out that the proton-proton collisions at the LHC would produce large fluxes of very high energy neutrinos in the forward direction [1]. In 2023, almost 40 years later, the FASER and SND experiments ushered in the…
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SHiP Experiment: Charting New Territory in Particle Physics
Full speed ahead Layout of the SHiP experiment, with the target on the left and the experiment in the ECN3 hall. Credit: SHiP collaboration. In a significant step forward for particle physics, CERN’s Research Board recently approved the SHiP (…
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