Tag: SME
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AEgIS Experiment Breakthrough: Laser Cooling Opens Door to New Antimatter Studies
AEgIS Experiment Breakthrough: Laser Cooling Opens Door to New Antimatter Studies A significant breakthrough has been achieved at CERN by the AEgIS experiment. Researchers successfully cooled a sample of positronium using a laser, paving the way for a new era in antimatter research. This accomplishment, reported in Physical Review Letters, holds promise not only for
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Champion in laser ionisation of unstable nuclei, justice and diversity at work, and climbing.
Champion in laser ionisation of unstable nuclei, justice and diversity at work, and climbing. On January 27th, at the Maison des Amis Montagnards in Geneva, friends, colleagues from CERN, and numerous ISOLDE users said the last goodbye to Bruce Marsh, who has been one of the main innovators of the laser ion sources at ISOLDE
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Revolutionizing Particle Detection: 3D-Printed Scintillating Detectors for Tracking and Calorimetry
Revolutionizing Particle Detection: 3D-Printed Scintillating Detectors for Tracking and Calorimetry Plastic scintillator detectors, which are cost-effective due to the affordability of plastic materials, are extensively employed in high-energy physics experiments. They play a crucial role in identifying and tracking particles, conducting time-of-flight measurements, and, when combined with dense materials, are used in sampling calorimeters. The
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ISOLDE: On the frontiers of materials science for a sustainable future
ISOLDE: On the frontiers of materials science for a sustainable future Nowadays, one of the most important issues that human beings are facing is the fact that reducing carbon emission is extremely necessary. New materials for a sustainable future are required for the world to become climate neutral. The huge demand for innovative hard magnetic
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Investigating exotic structures of exotic nuclei with Miniball
Investigating exotic structures of exotic nuclei with Miniball Atomic nuclei come in all manner of shapes and sizes, sometimes at the same time! The reason behind this diversity lies in poorly understood nuclear forces. Many features of these forces only came to light when studying very unstable nuclei, which do not occur terrestrially. At CERN,
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SHADOWS of New Physics in the CERN North Area
SHADOWS of New Physics in the CERN North Area In recent years, the physics of feebly-interacting particles (FIPs) has received considerable and growing attention from the broad HEP community, motivated by both existing data, and by the appeal of simple extensions of the Standard Model to address long-standing puzzles in which FIPs play an important
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CLOUD experiments show that trees can make their own clouds.
CLOUD experiments show that trees can make their own clouds. Atmospheric aerosols are tiny solid or liquid droplets suspended in the air. They are all around us, emitted from a variety of natural and anthropogenic sources. Although aerosol particles are too small to be seen with the human eye, they have a significant impact on
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ALPHA experiment at CERN observes the influence of gravity on antimatter.
ALPHA experiment at CERN observes the influence of gravity on antimatter. In a paper published earlier this autumn in Nature, the ALPHA collaboration at CERN’s Antimatter Factory shows that, within the precision of their experiment, atoms of antihydrogen – a positron orbiting an antiproton – fall to Earth in the same way as their matter
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SHiP collaboration sets course on New Physics
SHiP collaboration sets course on New Physics The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment with the associated Beam Dump Facility (BDF), currently under consideration for implementation in the SPS ECN3 beam facility, is designed to perform a generic and exhaustive search for feebly interacting particles (FIPs) in a region of mass and coupling that is
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ISOLDE lays the ground for CP violation tests with radioactive molecules
ISOLDE lays the ground for CP violation tests with radioactive molecules All atoms heavier than bismuth, which has 83 protons, are radioactive and their isotopes have short half-lives, with few exceptions. As a result, the study of heavy atoms and their molecular compounds is complicated by the radioactive decay of the nuclei, which presents a