Category: Newsletter
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Joining CERN’s Alumni Network matters
Joining CERN’s Alumni Network matters It has been almost four years since the launch of the CERN Alumni Network in June 2017 as a strategic objective of the CERN management. It is very easy to lose track of most CERN’s members of personnel and associates after they embark on their various career paths – even
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ALICE gears up towards a rich Run 3 QCD programme
ALICE gears up towards a rich Run 3 QCD programme Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions, is characterised by a rich phase diagram. The elementary coloured degrees of freedom of the theory, quarks and gluons, under ordinary conditions are confined in colour-neutral hadrons and get free to propagate over distances larger than the
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CMS experiment prepares for Run 3
CMS experiment prepares for Run 3 The CMS experiment is one of the four large experiments at the LHC and a detailed description of the detector’s inner and outer layers can be found here. The detector successfully operated with LHC collisions since 2010 leading to the Higgs boson discovery in 2012 by the CMS and
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LHCb experiment looks forward
LHCb experiment looks forward The LHCb detector provides unique precision coverage of the forward region at the LHC, enabling world-leading studies of flavour physics and more. The collaboration is currently installing the first major upgrade of the detector. This upgrade will allow proton collisions with an instantaneous luminosity of 2 x 1033 cm-2s-1, an increase
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AIDAInnova: Tailwind from the EC for concerted detector development
AIDAInnova: Tailwind from the EC for concerted detector development For more than two decades, a number of coordinated initiatives in Europe have targeted the fundamental and technological issues associated with the development and exploitation of the most advanced detectors for particle physics research. From the first type of detectors including photographic plates and bubble chambers
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A safety and reliability perspective of the CERN RadiatiOn Monitoring Electronics (CROME).
A safety and reliability perspective of the CERN RadiatiOn Monitoring Electronics (CROME). CERN has the legal obligation to protect the public and the people working on its premises from any unjustified exposure to ionising radiation. In this context, radiation monitoring is one of the main tasks of the Radiation Protection Group. Currently, around 800 radiation
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The likelihood is dead, long live the likelihood
The likelihood is dead, long live the likelihood Among the sciences, particle physics has the luxury of having a well established theoretical basis. Often we focus on the elementary particles and model them mathematically with quantum field theories like the Standard Model. In order to compare with data, we must also model the additional radiation,
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CERN launches Quantum Technology Initiative
CERN launches Quantum Technology Initiative CERN has recently launched its Quantum Technology Initiative (QTI) to coordinate its contribution in the rapidly advancing landscape of quantum technologies and coordinate activities with other global players in the field. We discussed with Michael Doser, co-coordinator of the quantum sensing strand of the QTI and the EP Department’s representative,
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Designing the SND@LHC experiment
Designing the SND@LHC experiment SND@LHC is a newly proposed, compact and stand-alone experiment to perform measurements with neutrinos produced at the LHC in a hitherto unexplored pseudo-rapidity range of 7.2 < 𝜂 < 8.6, complementary to all the other experiments at the LHC, including FASER. Today, two effects make it possible and particularly interesting to
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BASE develops a new technique to detect ultralight dark matter.
BASE develops a new technique to detect ultralight dark matter. In a recent work published in Physical Review Letters [1], the Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) at CERN has placed new limits on a possible coupling between photons and hypothetical axionlike dark matter particles with masses between 2.7906-2.7914 neV. We evaluated the signals from our