Tag: SME
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10th PATRAS Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs
10th PATRAS Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs The first PATRAS Workshop took place at CERN in 2005. Last July, it returned to CERN for its tenth anniversary. The initial aim of this series of workshops was to provide academic training to the new generations of scientists working within the EU – ILIAS network, which
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The ELENA project
The ELENA project CERN has a longstanding tradition of pursuing fundamental physics on extreme low and high energy scales. The present physics knowledge is successfully described by the Standard Model and the General Relativity. In the anti-matter regime many predictions of this established theory still remain experimentally unverified and one of the most fundamental open
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SHiP Collaboration Hoist Sails
SHiP Collaboration Hoist Sails With the results from LHC Run 1 as a backdrop, more than 100 physicists from 15 countries, including theorists, gathered on June 10 for a 2.5 day workshop hosted by the Zurich University to discuss alternative approaches to the remaining fundamental questions about the foundation of the Universe. The aim of
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?
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 structure made of
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Test Storage Ring at ISOLDE
Test 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-14th-february-2014). An anatomy of the proposed experiments and a detailed analysis of the pro and cons
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New straw tracker for the NA62 experiment
New 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 in order to manufacture straws in large quantities using
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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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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
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ISOLDE PhD student wins 2013 IOP Nuclear Physics Group Early Career award
ISOLDE 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 whom they have closely worked
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MoEDAL – the LHC’s Magnificent 7th Experiment
MoEDAL – the LHC’s Magnificent 7th Experiment MoEDAL, the 7th and newest experiment is dedicated to the detection of the highly ionizing particle avatars of new physics such as the magnetic monopole and massive stable or metastable charged particles. Such particles originate from a number of beyond the Standard Model scenarios that, for example, incorporate: