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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?
The mirror system is an important part of the NA62 RICH detector* covering the full acceptance range of 7m2 surface. It is composed of 18 hexagonal (Ø≈70cm, thickness 2.5cm) and 2 semi-hexagonal mirrors which are sustained by a lightweight support…
Read moreTest Storage Ring at ISOLDE
On Valentine’s day, the lovers of the Test Storage Ring (TSR) at ISOLDE joined expertise in a full day workshop dedicated to study in detail the possible day-one experiments to be done there (see: http://isolde.web.cern.ch/updates/tsrisolde-workshop…
Read moreNew straw tracker for the NA62 experiment
The design of the NA62 straw tracker is driven by the requirement of low multiple scattering and high efficiency over the full acceptance. An ultra-light straw tracker operated in vacuum was chosen for this purpose. Extensive R&D was performed…
Read moreThe AEgIS Experiment
If apples fall down, do anti-apples fall up? Or do ordinary particles fall with the same acceleration as antiparticles? According to Einstein's Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP), gravity is independent of mass and composition, hence the answer to the…
Read moreCAST opens a new window into dark energy and dark matter after 11 years of operation and continuous renewal.
The Cern Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) is the only astroparticle physics experiment at CERN. It is taking data for the last 11 years searching for solar axions or other similar exotica from the dark sector, that dominate the Universe and we do not…
Read moreISOLDE PhD student wins 2013 IOP Nuclear Physics Group Early Career award
Kara Marie Lynch has received the 2013 Institute of Physics-Nuclear Physics Group’s Early Career Prize, which is awarded to young scientists with less than five years of research. Candidates are nominated by their supervisor or another academic with…
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 moreThe RICH detector of the NA62 experiment
The NA62 experiment is focused on precision tests of the Standard Model by studies of rare decays of charged kaons since only for few kaon decays there is a precise theoretical prediction. One of these exceptions is the very rare decay K+→π+ν ν,…
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