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Truly non-destructive: Antimatter under the microscope during the 2024-YETS

Early in the morning, on the 13th of November 2023, the AD/ELENA facility delivered its final antiproton bunch to the users at the antimatter factory. Most of the particles annihilated a few minutes later in antihydrogen formation and its…

AEgIS Experiment Breakthrough: Laser Cooling Opens Door to New Antimatter Studies

A significant breakthrough has been achieved at CERN by the AEgIS experiment. Researchers successfully cooled a sample of positronium using a laser, paving the way for a new era in antimatter research. This accomplishment, reported in Physical…

Champion in laser ionisation of unstable nuclei, justice and diversity at work, and climbing.

On January 27th, at the Maison des Amis Montagnards in Geneva, friends, colleagues from CERN, and numerous ISOLDE users said the last goodbye to Bruce Marsh, who has been one of the main innovators of the laser ion sources at ISOLDE that have …

Revolutionizing Particle Detection: 3D-Printed Scintillating Detectors for Tracking and Calorimetry

Plastic scintillator detectors, which are cost-effective due to the affordability of plastic materials, are extensively employed in high-energy physics experiments. They play a crucial role in identifying and tracking particles, conducting time-of-…

ISOLDE: On the frontiers of materials science for a sustainable future

Nowadays, one of the most important issues that human beings are facing is the fact that reducing carbon emission is extremely necessary. New materials for a sustainable future are required for the world to become climate neutral. The huge demand…

Investigating exotic structures of exotic nuclei with Miniball

Atomic nuclei come in all manner of shapes and sizes, sometimes at the same time! The reason behind this diversity lies in poorly understood nuclear forces. Many features of these forces only came to light when studying very unstable nuclei, which…

SHADOWS of New Physics in the CERN North Area

In recent years, the physics of feebly-interacting particles (FIPs) has received considerable and growing attention from the broad HEP community, motivated by both existing data, and by the appeal of simple extensions of the Standard Model to…

CLOUD experiments show that trees can make their own clouds.

Atmospheric aerosols are tiny solid or liquid droplets suspended in the air. They are all around us, emitted from a variety of natural and anthropogenic sources. Although aerosol particles are too small to be seen with the human eye, they have a…

ALPHA experiment at CERN observes the influence of gravity on antimatter.

In a paper published earlier this autumn in Nature, the ALPHA collaboration at CERN’s Antimatter Factory shows that, within the precision of their experiment, atoms of antihydrogen – a positron orbiting an antiproton – fall to Earth in the…

SHiP collaboration sets course on New Physics

The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment with the associated Beam Dump Facility (BDF), currently under consideration for implementation in the SPS ECN3 beam facility, is designed to perform a generic and exhaustive search for feebly…

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