Category: Newsletter
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ATLAS LS1 considerations
ATLAS LS1 considerations Ten months passed from the beginning of this very hectic Long Shutdown 1 (LS1) and ATLAS went already through so many changes and operations, that it becomes hard to list all of them. LS1 reminds me of the construction time when many people were working underground on the detector and the infrastructure.
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New Nominations
New Nominations Pippa Well is the new Chaiperson of CERN Fellow & Associates Committe replacing R.Voss.
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Young scientist from PH/ESE group wins IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society 2013 Radiation Instrumentation Early Career Award
Young scientist from PH/ESE group wins IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society 2013 Radiation Instrumentation Early Career Award Rafael Ballabriga Sune, a young scientist working within the ESE group, has been presented with the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society 2013 Radiation Instrumentation Early Career Award "for the implementation of a new approach to spectroscopic
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The CMS PIX Phase I upgrade CO2 cooling: a full scale prototype ready for tests
The CMS PIX Phase I upgrade CO2 cooling: a full scale prototype ready for tests Low temperature cooling systems using evaporative Carbon Dioxide (CO2) have been used for particle detectors since 2000 by the Silicon Tracker of the AMS02 experiment at the ISS (International Space Station) and for the VELO vertex detector of the LHCb
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TOTEM: Moving Forward Through Consolidation and Upgrade
TOTEM: Moving Forward Through Consolidation and Upgrade Building on the rich experience gathered during its very successful pre-LS1 operation that has already produced 9 publications (with more being in preparation), TOTEM profits from the two-year-long LHC break to start strengthening its very-forward Roman Pot (RP) detector system, creating a leading-proton spectrometer with unprecedented performance and
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CMS – Highlights and Perspectives from UXC55
CMS – Highlights and Perspectives from UXC55 A very busy year of shutdown activities comes to an end, bringing us to the half-way-point of LS1. The most visible change of CMS is an additional fourth shielding disk on the +z end (pointing towards the Jura) of the detector, which is currently parked at the head
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LS1: A special opportunity for LHCb
LS1: A special opportunity for LHCb An unforgettable first act is drawing to an end for LHCb: incredibly productive data taking during LHC run 1, followed by a long shutdown (LS1), packed full with many tasks and at the same time ever increasing activity on the upgrade of the experiment… LHCb operated with great success
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Interview with George Zweig
Interview with George Zweig “Art is not merely an imitation of nature. Art is about creation. Art is creating the world. For the Arts, Nature is a nebula and the true challenge is to create its stars.” G.Seferis, 1926 Earlier this autumn, George Zweig, father of Aces, visited CERN to give a Colloquium titled “Concrete
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Interview with Philippe Bloch
Interview with Philippe Bloch Philippe Bloch has stepped aside after five years as Head of the PH Department in order to return to CMS and continue his research work. He achieved to combine successfully fundamental research work with an administrative position. In this interview, we discuss his first steps in particle physics, when forty years
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CAST opens a new window into dark energy and dark matter after 11 years of operation and continuous renewal.
CAST 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