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A safety and reliability perspective of the CERN RadiatiOn Monitoring Electronics (CROME).
A safety and reliability perspective of the CERN RadiatiOn Monitoring Electronics (CROME). CERN has the legal obligation to protect the public and the people working on its premises from any unjustified exposure to ionising radiation. In this context, radiation monitoring is one of the main tasks of the Radiation Protection Group. Currently, around 800 radiation
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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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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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Beyond the Standard Model Explanations of GW190521
Beyond the Standard Model Explanations of GW190521 Earlier this month the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave observatories announced the discovery of GW190521, an exceptional and extraordinary signal. Seven billion years ago — a little over half the age of the universe — at the other end of the universe, two black holes spiraled into each
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Exploring the physics opportunities of FCCs
Exploring the physics opportunities of FCCs The 4th FCC Physics and Experiments workshop is part of the FCC Innovation Study Kickoff event, which will address the mandate issued by the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics: “Europe, together with its international partners, should investigate the technical and financial feasibility of a future hadron
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Exploring new ways to see the Higgs boson
Exploring new ways to see the Higgs boson The ATLAS and CMS collaborations presented their latest results on new signatures for detecting the Higgs boson at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. These include searches for rare transformations of the Higgs boson into a Z boson – which is a carrier of one of the fundamental forces
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Face-Shield Production in EP-DT
Face-Shield Production in EP-DT With the COVID-19 pandemic, all our lives and routines have changed, at both the personal and professional level. Worklife at CERN has been impacted by an important lockdown, where we all had to face new challenges in terms of work reorganization. Despite all the difficulties however, CERN managed to go well