Since neutrinos are charge-less, they cannot be accelerated and steered with magnets as typically done at a particle accelerator. To create a neutrino beam, researchers accelerate charged protons and impinge them onto a fixed target of a few…
Read moreOne of the biggest puzzles in physics is that eighty-five percent of the matter in our universe is “dark”: it does not interact with the photons of the conventional electromagnetic force and is therefore invisible to our eyes and telescopes.…
Read moreThere was an air of celebration at CERN on Wednesday 28th September as nearly 100 invited guests gathered to mark the successful completion of phase 1 of the HIE-ISOLDE project, which aims to provide higher intensity and energy beams, up to 5.5 MeV/…
Read moreASACUSA (atomic spectroscopy and collisions using slow antiprotons) now works mainly on two subjects, 1) antihydrogen ground-state hyperfine splitting measurement, and 2) antiprotonic helium laser spectroscopy. Both of these aim at CPT tests. …
Read moreBASE is a Japanese / German collaboration at the antiproton decelerator facility which was approved in 2013. The goal of the effort is to conduct Penning trap based high-precision investigations of the fundamental properties of protons and…
Read moreISOLDE is CERN’s radioactive beam facility that produces low energy and post-accelerated beams. The high energy and intensity, average intensity of 2 μA, of the proton beam from the PS booster on different thick targets produces high quality intense…
Read moreIn April, the MoEDAL collaboration submitted its first physics-research publication on the search for magnetic monopoles utilising a 160 kg prototype MoEDAL trapping detector exposed to 0.75 fb–1 of 8 TeV pp collisions, which was subsequently…
Read moreDark Matter makes up a quarter of the universe and is five times more abundant than normal matter such as neutrons, protons, electrons and neutrinos. Without it, galaxies would fall apart, and stars would spin off into space. Yet we have not…
Read moreLast May, the newsletter reported about the two-month pilot run of 2014 and how NA62 was preparing for the 2015 data taking: this became reality for five months between mid-June and mid-November, an exciting but exhausting period for our operation…
Read moreMoEDAL is a pioneering experiment designed to search for highly ionizing avatars of new physics such as magnetic monopoles or massive (pseudo-)stable charged particles. Its physics program defines over 34 scenarios that yield potentially…
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