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New light from CLOUD on climate change
In a paper published in the journal Nature, the CLOUD experiment at CERN reports on a major advance towards solving a long-standing enigma in climate science: how do aerosol particles form in the atmosphere? It is known that all cloud droplets form…
Read moreThree Natures in the ISOLDE hand
The radioactive beam facility at CERN, ISOLDE(1) has pioneered many achievements both at the level of designing new devices and of producing frontier Physics. These demarches have been crowned by a series of papers in Nature and Nature…
Read moreThe CLOUD Experiment
CLOUD Collaboration: Aerodyne Research Inc., Billerica, Massachusetts 01821, USA California Institute of Technology, Div. of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Carnegie Mellon University, Center for Atmospheric…
Read moreMeeting the challenges of the High-Energy ISOLDE!
The On-Line Isotope Mass Separator ISOLDE is a facility dedicated to the production, study and use of exotic nuclei located far from the valley of stability i.e. far from the species found naturally on Earth. These exotic nuclei are being studied in…
Read moreISOLTRAP’s MR-ToF mass separator to plumb a neutron star
The mass of an atomic nucleus is one of its most fundamental properties.Via the binding energy, i.e., the difference in mass between its constituents (protons and neutrons) and the entire nucleus, it reflects the sum of all interactions present.…
Read moreGBAR - Gravitational Behavior of Antimatter at Rest
The GBAR experiment, proposing a gravity measurement of antihydrogen at the planned ELENA facility, was approved by the Research Board in May 2012. The collaboration is formed of 14 laboratories and about 40 researchers at present1. The goal of…
Read morePRESENT STATUS AND FUTURE PROGRAMS OF THE n_TOF EXPERIMENT
High precision neutron cross-‐section data are of major importance for a wide variety of research fields in basic and applied …
Read moreCOMPASS-‐II: Preparing for the next step
COMPASS (NA58) is preparing for the next step in its programme studying nucleon structure and hadron spectroscopy. From 2014 onward the focus will be on transverse momentum…
Read moreNA62 – Searching for the Very Rare
Work is progressing swiftly on the construction of the new NA62 detectors. The experiment aims to collect new data, with a partial setup, already in 2012. NA62 is an experiment devoted to the study of rare kaon decays. It addresses in particular the…
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