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HIE-ISOLDE is tuning up for the new physics season

This year has been a busy one for HIE-ISOLDE, the high energy and intensity upgrade project at ISOLDE. In January 2017, another milestone was reached with the addition of the third cryomodule to the HIE-ISOLDE linear post-accelerator, increasing the…

Search for axions in streaming dark matter

Streaming dark matter (DM) axions may be the better source for their discovery than the widely assumed isotropic DM. Because, a large axion flux enhancement can take place, temporally, due to gravitational lensing when the Sun and/or a…

Exotic searches with NA62 experiment

The NA62 experiment at CERN focuses in the study of kaon physics; a branch of physics that has been one of the major protagonists of the field in the second half of the twentieth century, as it played a key role in the development of the Standard…

MOEDAL first results at the LHC’s discovery frontier

In 2010 the MoEDAL experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was approved, as the LHC’s newest experiment, to start data taking in 2015. MoEDAL is a pioneering experiment designed to search for highly ionizing avatars of new physics such as…

First measurements of the antihydrogen spectrum

For many years, atomic spectroscopy allowed the determination of the composition of an element by its electromagnetic spectrum. Every chemical element has a unique `signature' which can be revealed by analyzing the light it gives off. Measuring how…

NA61/SHINE efforts in support of the US Neutrino Physics Program

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…

A new experiment searching for dark matter at CERN

One 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.…

HIE-ISOLDE celebrates the end of the first stage of the energy upgrade and the great physics outcome.

There 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…

ASACUSA Collaboration at CERN AD

ASACUSA (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.…

The BASE Experiment

BASE 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…

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