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SND@LHC gears up for data taking
The last fifteen months have been a full-fledged race against the clock for the SND@LHC Collaboration. The experiment was approved by the Research Board in March 2021 with the goal of taking data in Run 3 of the LHC. The Collaboration has had to…
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Testing CPT-symmetry and the Weak Equivalence Principle with Proton/Antiproton Clock Comparisons
Even though the Standard Model of Particle Physics is incredibly successful and provides extremely accurate predictions for many physical quantities and mechanisms, the model is known to be incomplete. For instance, it fails in explaining the…
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MoEDAL’s Searches for Magnetic Monopoles Produced via The Schwinger Mechanism
Magnetic monopoles (MMs) are hypothetical fundamental particles that carry isolated magnetic charge that are arguably the most important particle yet to be discovered. In 1931 Dirac first showed that a MM was compatible with quantum mechanics [1]…
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ISOLDE's Solenoidal Spectrometer (ISS): a new tool for studying exotic nuclei
The majority of atomic nuclei exist away from the valley of beta-stability, so it is perhaps unsurprising that in studying them nuclear physicists have discovered emerging phenomena not seen in stable nuclei. Changing shell structure, evolving…
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New prospects for the Physics Beyond Colliders programme
Particle physics is often equated with high energy collider experiments. However, over recent years it has become increasingly clear that high intensity and high precision experiments offer significant, complementary opportunities to explore physics…
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Prestigious Award for Quantum Logic Spectroscopy
In October, the prestigious Dissertation Prize of the Section Atoms, Molecules, Quantum Optics and Plasmas (SAMOP) of the German Physical Society was awarded to Peter Micke for his seminal work demonstrating quantum logic spectroscopy on highly…
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Transforming NA62
The main goal of the NA62 experiment, located in CERNs North Area, is to precisely measure the K+→π+νν̅ branching fraction, which is highly sensitive to new physics processes. The analysis of data collected during 2016-2018 led to the most precise…
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The many faces of ISOLDE
You will stand across the street from the ISOLDE facility, when visiting CERN’s medical center, fire fighters, raw materials store, transport teams, or goods reception service. Located centrally at the Meyrin site (https://videos.cern.ch/record/…
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Cooling a particle from a trap away
The BASE experiment, located at CERN’s Antiproton Deccelerator (AD) performs some of the most precise measurements with antimatter in the world – namely measuring the magnetic moment and charge-to-mass ratio of a single trapped antiproton. With…
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FASER Detector Installation
During March the FASER detector was successfully installed into the LHC complex. FASER, a new small LHC experiment, designed to search for light, weakly interacting new particles in the LHC collisions was proposed in 2017, and after review by the…
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