Tag: December 2020 – February 2021
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Cornering right-handed neutrinos
Cornering right-handed neutrinos Right-handed neutrinos: the missing piece of the puzzle? The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics is one of the most successful scientific theories ever developed. Together with the theory of General Relativity it can describe most of the observed phenomena in nature at a fundamental level. However, a number of established experimental
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Tips for a better virtual experience
Tips for a better virtual experience A year ago, as the first reports of COVID-19 infections started to reach us from China, it was almost certain that none of us really foresaw the impact that the pandemic would have on our lives and on high-energy physics as a field in 2020. As things became more
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CERN’s new open data policy supports open science
CERN's new open data policy supports open science The four main LHC collaborations (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb) have unanimously endorsed a new open data policy for scientific experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which was presented to the CERN Council today. The policy commits to publicly releasing so-called level 3 scientific data, the
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Preparing the future of the Physics Beyond Colliders (PBC) studies
Preparing the future of the Physics Beyond Colliders (PBC) studies The Physics Beyond Colliders (PBC) study [1] was launched in 2016 by the CERN Management to explore the possibilities of exploiting the full potential of CERN's accelerator complex via projects complementary to collider experiments. Following calls to the community, a wealth of ideas including upgrades
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A word from the EP Department Head – December 2020
A word from the EP Department Head – December 2020 Dear Colleagues in EP, Welcome to this winter edition and final EP newsletter of this year. What a year turns to its end! 2020 is a year we will never forget. Following a smooth start to the year, in March everything turned upside down and
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NEW STAFF MEMBERS AND FELLOWS – December 2020
NEW STAFF MEMBERS AND FELLOWS – December 2020 Juliette Alimena I am a new CERN fellow, working on the CMS experiment. I am particularly interested in looking for long-lived particles (LLPs) beyond the standard model, and in developing the triggers and object reconstruction needed to find them. I received my PhD from Brown University and
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Uniting Leptogeneses
Uniting Leptogeneses With the discovery of the Higgs boson, particle physics has reached an era of unprecedented success. Almost all phenomena in nature can in principle be explained with known particles of the Standard Model (SM). Some puzzles still remain unsolved, like the origin of observed matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe (BAU), the existence of
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From COMPASS to AMBER: exploring fundamental properties of hadrons
From COMPASS to AMBER: exploring fundamental properties of hadrons The quest to fully understand the internal structure of hadrons, in particular the dynamics as well as the spatial and momentum distributions of their constituents – the partons -, inspired a large community of theoreticians and experimentalists to commit to the continuous development of the underlying
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Stephanie Zimmermann (1973 – 2020)
Stephanie Zimmermann (1973 – 2020) We have been deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Stephanie Zimmermann, an outstanding physicist, who has made a long-lasting contributions to the ATLAS experiment. Stephanie was involved in the Muon Detector Control System activities and served as muon run coordinator, ATLAS run coordinator and, from 2013, New Small
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Hunting for axion-like particles at neutrino detectors
Hunting for axion-like particles at neutrino detectors Although neutrinos were discovered more than 60 years ago, they are the most mysterious particles in the Standard Model (SM). While the present data collected at the neutrino experiments can explain several neutrino properties, there are still at least several unanswered fundamental questions in the neutrino sector that