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POLAR-2 project enters final design stage

The POLAR-2 project is a follow-up of the POLAR mission that was launched in 2016, mounted on the exterior of the Chinese Spacelab Tiangong-2. Following its application to the Recognized Experiment Committee earlier this year, it has been…

MUonE experiment gears up to chase whiff of new physics

A new proposed project, MUonE, was described on the EP Newsletter few months ago [2]. It is an experiment aiming at helping in understanding the long-standing discrepancy between the experimental value and the Standard Model (SM)…

Civil engineering for FASER

Civil engineering work to enable the installation of the FASER experiment in TI12, which is the former LEP injection tunnel from the SPS, successfully completed this month. The FASER experiment is designed to detect new physics particles…

FASERν: looking for high-energy collider neutrinos

In December 2019 a proposed upgrade of the FASER detector designed to study neutrinos at the LHC was approved by CERN. The new detector called FASERν will be placed in front of the main FASER detector, 480-m in front of the ATLAS collision…

PUMA: Exploring exotic nuclear phenomena with antimatter

PUMA is a new experiment proposed at both the CERN AD and ISOLDE facilities, that would for the first time transport antiprotons trapped at AD/ELENA to ISOLDE, by carrying them in a trap loaded onto a truck. The antiprotons would then be used…

CAST: from Solar to Dark Matter Axions searches

*/ CERN’s Axion Solar telescope (CAST) has been running since 2003 searching for the axion: a hypothetical particle introduced in 1978 as a consequence of the Peccei-Quinn mechanism aiming to solve the strong CP problem, i.e why is the neutron…

AMS-02 cooling pumps replaced during series of spacewalks

The AMS-02 experiment was designed and developed by an international team led by MIT physicist Samuel Ting and assembled at CERN starting in 2003. Perched atop the International Space Station’s S3 truss segment, AMS-02 has been hunting for cosmic…

Finding the best candidates for atomic EDM searches

The search for hints of new physics Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) calls for a combination of experimental strategies including both direct searches but also a number of very high-precision measurements of certain quantities looking for deviations…

BASE probes antimatter - dark matter interaction

In a recent paper, the BASE collaboration presented results from a direct search for interactions of antimatter with dark matter and placed direct constraints on the interaction of ultralight axion-like particles (dark-matter candidates) with…

Shining more light on the onset of deconfinement

"It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it." said Sherlock*. …

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