Category: Newsletter
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Discussing the FCC plans with Michelangelo Mangano
Discussing the FCC plans with Michelangelo Mangano The FCC Kick-off meeting took place in Geneva earlier in February as a response to one of the directions emphasized by the European Strategy for Particle Physics. But is it the right time to start exploring this direction? Michelangelo Mangano says: “The LHC will saturate its exploration potential
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PH Plenary Meeting
PH Plenary Meeting The PH Department is organizing a plenary meeting that will be held on Monday 24 February at 15:30 at the Globe. The meeting will also be video-transmitted in the Council Chamber. The scope of the meeting is to have a a presentation addressing all the personnel of PH and describing the scientific
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RD53: Development of pixel readout integrated circuits for extreme rate and radiation.
RD53: Development of pixel readout integrated circuits for extreme rate and radiation. In June 2013 the LHCC has endorsed the establishment of a new R&D collaboration, RD53, to address the challenges of making readout integrated circuits for the phase 2 pixel detector upgrades of ATLAS and CMS, as well as long term developments of interest
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PH Department: at the heart of CERN
PH Department: at the heart of CERN The Physics Department is where the Laboratory’s scientific activity takes place. Some 1000 members of the personnel and 11,000 users work together on CERN’s highly-diversified experimental programme. The challenges for the coming years are twofold: maintain the level of excellence that led the Laboratory to the discovery of
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CLIC workshop highlights common challenges for future detector R&D
CLIC workshop highlights common challenges for future detector R&D The open session at the beginning of the recent CLIC workshop, held at CERN 3-7 Feb, focused on preparing for CERN's long-term future. The High Luminosity upgrade of the LHC confirms CERN's presence at the high energy frontier for the next two decades. However, a series
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New management team for the PH department
New management team for the PH department Livio Mapelli as the new Department head will have two deputies, Ignatios Antoniadis who continues as head of the Theory Unit, and Roger Forty who will focus on the experimental programme. Catherine Decosse will be the new Departmental Planning Officer of the PH department taking over from Jose
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Roger Forty: New Deputy Head of the PH department
Roger Forty: New Deputy Head of the PH department BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://ep-news.web.cern.ch//content/roger-forty-new-deputy-head-ph-department) Roger is British, and studied physics at Oxford University and then Imperial College London. His thesis was on a fixed-target experiment, studying the production of charmed particles with one of the first silicon micro-strip detectors. He came to
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The AEgIS Experiment
The 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 above question should be yes. The WEP, however, has been tested successfully for matter,
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The 2014 European School of High-Energy Physics
The 2014 European School of High-Energy Physics The 2014 European School of High-Energy Physics will take place in the Netherlands from 18 June to 1 July 2014. The school is targeted particularly at students in experimental HEP who are in the final years of work towards their PhDs. You can find more details about the
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Editorial – February 2014
Editorial – February 2014 Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the first PH Newsletter for 2014. This is going to be an exciting year, with LS1 past its halfway point, and the injector chain starting up for physics. Preparations for Run 2 of the LHC will be in full swing, along with the planning for the upgrades,