Tag: LHC
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The ISOLDE Improvement Programme
The ISOLDE Improvement Programme The ISOLDE Improvement Programme (IIP) brings together a series of upgrades and consolidation activities to maintain and further develop the ISOLDE facility. The programme includes projects addressing the accelerator infrastructure, beam production, and delivery systems, and experimental facilities, with the objective of improving operational flexibility, reliability, and long-term sustainability. Among the
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Building a Microelectronics Foundation for Tomorrow’s Detectors
Building a Microelectronics Foundation for Tomorrow’s Detectors The challenge: smarter chips in harsher places Particle physics detectors have always pushed electronics to their limits. The next generation of tracking systems and calorimeters will depend critically on dense, intelligent, low power and radiation-hard microelectronics: front-end ASICs that can survive for decades in harsh environments, having their
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A word from the EP Department Head – Spring 2026
A word from the EP Department Head – Spring 2026 Dear Colleagues, It is my pleasure to share the first 2026 edition of the EP newsletter with you, in my new role as EP Department Head. CERN’s new management took office in January, with a revised structure of Sectors and Departments. In EP, we reorganised
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A word from the EP Department Head – Spring 2026
A word from the EP Department Head – Spring 2026 Dear Colleagues, It is my pleasure to share the first 2026 edition of the EP newsletter with you, in my new role as EP Department Head. CERN’s new management took office in January, with a revised structure of Sectors and Departments. In EP, we reorganised
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New Staff Members and Fellows
New Staff Members and Fellows Maximilian Babeluk Hi, I’m Max. I recently joined the ALICE ITS3 team, where I work on sensor testing, functional verification, and in the future also chip design – particularly on MOSAIX. My main activities include testing and yield assessment across multiple integration levels (wafer probing to system tests), including data
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LHC experiments restart
LHC experiments restart The LHC restarted this summer, after a period of upgrades (LS2) and is gearing up to probe new realms of physics during a third run, which will be its most powerful yet. Run 3 of the LHC will feature higher-energy particle beams and higher collision rates, allowing physicists to collect more data
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Shaping the future of particle physics
Shaping the future of particle physics Τhe ongoing update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics aims to identify the potential opportunities and challenges of the proposed research programme through an inclusive and evidence-driven process. Discussions focus on the parameter space that can be explored and how future searches could guide theoretical developments along with
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Exploring the Lifetime Frontier at the LHC and Beyond
Exploring the Lifetime Frontier at the LHC and Beyond By any reasonable measure, the first ten years of the LHC have been an unmitigated success. But are we exploring everywhere in our data? The overwhelming majority of the searches for particles beyond the Standard Model (BSM) conducted at ATLAS and CMS, for example, assume that
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Particle colliders join the quest for dark energy.
Particle colliders join the quest for dark energy. The birth of a new science The beginning of the twentieth century was marked by two of the greatest scientific discoveries: quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity, which became the driving forces behind an array of new scientific breakthroughs and technological leaps. Quantum mechanics led to
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Axion-like particle searches at the LHC
Axion-like particle searches at the LHC The Standard Model (SM) of Particle Physics is plagued by some longstanding conceptual and practical questions, and we have to go beyond the Standard Model to address them. A guiding principle of the Standard Model is that we should expect to see all processes which are consistent with its