October-December 2024

Interview with Ugo Amaldi: Reflections on CERN's 70-Year Legacy and European Collaboration

In the landscape of 20th-century European science, few figures loom as large as Edoardo Amaldi, a pioneering physicist who played a crucial role in establishing some of Europe's most transformative scientific institutions. His son, Ugo Amaldi,…

Unveiling the Early Universe: The Historical Journey to Discovering the Quark-Gluon Plasma

One of the most fascinating characteristics of particles carrying colour charge, such as quarks and gluons, is their inability to exist as free entities in nature. They are indeed perpetually confined within colour-neutral composite particles known…

Tracing the Path to Precision: The Historical Evolution of Electroweak Physics at the LHC

The unification of the electromagnetic and weak-nuclear forces into an electroweak theory was one of the major breakthroughs of 20th century particle physics. In the 1960s, Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow, and Abdus Salam proposed that these two…

ATLAS hones in on Higgs-Boson Couplings to Heavy Flavour Quarks

Candidate event for the ZH → μμ cc process, where a Z boson and a Higgs boson decay to two muons (red tracks) and two charm-tagged jets (blue cones). (Image: ATLAS collaboration) In the summer of 2024, the ATLAS collaboration released two new…

The origin of Lead and the s-process branching points

Lead is an abundant element of the solar system and is particularly abundant on the Earth’s crust (Figure 1). The origin of three of its four stable isotopes (206Pb, 207Pb, and 208Pb) can be partially traced back to the decay of uranium and thorium…

The TOTEM experiment: a pioneering journey into proton-proton interactions and forward physics.

The TOTEM experiment is designed to explore the proton interactions when they survive intact after the collisions. With this goal, special detectors have been placed far from the interaction points to detect a small angular deflection, due…

SND@LHC Experiment: hunting for high-energy neutrinos and preparing for the HL run

Using the Large Hadron Collider as a neutrino source is the goal of the SND@LHC experiment. High-energy neutrinos, from a few hundred GeV to a few TeV, have never been studied. Moreover, neutrinos, particularly electron and tau species, in the SND…

The 2024 n_TOF run: Highlights and perspectives

Thanks to the excellent beam conditions provided by the PS staff, combined with the efficiency of research groups participating in the n_TOF Collaboration, an intense experimental program has been performed during the 252 days of measurements of the…

CERN's BASE-STEP: A Leap Forward in Antimatter Transport

Antimatter, often portrayed as the elusive counterpart to ordinary matter, has long captivated the scientific community with its potential to unlock some of the universe's most profound mysteries. Yet, one of the most significant challenges in…

Silicon Photonics Circuits for Integrated Optical Readout of future High Energy Physics detectors

Fibre optic links are crucial in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments, allowing the transmission of large volumes of data from particle detectors operating in harsh radiation environments to radiation-free zones. Silicon Photonics (SiPh) [1] has…

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