Tag: October-December 2024
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Interview with Ugo Amaldi: Reflections on CERN’s 70-Year Legacy and European Collaboration
Interview with Ugo Amaldi: Reflections on CERN's 70-Year Legacy and European Collaboration Portrait photo of Ugo Amaldi. Credits: Marina Cavazza, Copyright@CERN In the landscape of 20th-century European science, few figures loom as large as Edoardo Amaldi, a pioneering physicist who played a crucial role in establishing some of Europe’s most transformative scientific institutions. His son,
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Unveiling the Early Universe: The Historical Journey to Discovering the Quark-Gluon Plasma
Unveiling the Early Universe: The Historical Journey to Discovering the Quark-Gluon Plasma One of the most fascinating characteristics of particles carrying colour charge, such as quarks and gluons, is their inability to exist as free entities in nature. They are indeed perpetually confined within colour-neutral composite particles known as hadrons. This phenomenon, called colour confinement,
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Tracing the Path to Precision: The Historical Evolution of Electroweak Physics at the LHC
Tracing the Path to Precision: The Historical Evolution of Electroweak Physics at the LHC The unification of the electromagnetic and weak-nuclear forces into an electroweak theory was one of the major breakthroughs of 20th century particle physics. In the 1960s, Steven Weinberg, Sheldon Glashow, and Abdus Salam proposed that these two forces, which appear at
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ATLAS hones in on Higgs-Boson Couplings to Heavy Flavour Quarks
ATLAS hones in on Higgs-Boson Couplings to Heavy Flavour Quarks Candidate event for the ZH → μμ cc process, where a Z boson and a Higgs boson decay to two muons (red tracks) and two charm-tagged jets (blue cones). (Image: ATLAS collaboration) In the summer of 2024, the ATLAS collaboration released two new publications that
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The origin of Lead and the s-process branching points
The origin of Lead and the s-process branching points Lead is an abundant element of the solar system and is particularly abundant on the Earth’s crust (Figure 1). The origin of three of its four stable isotopes (206Pb, 207Pb, and 208Pb) can be partially traced back to the decay of uranium and thorium (radiogenic origin)
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The TOTEM experiment: a pioneering journey into proton-proton interactions and forward physics.
The TOTEM experiment: a pioneering journey into proton-proton interactions and forward physics. The TOTEM experiment is designed to explore the proton interactions when they survive intact after the collisions. With this goal, special detectors have been placed far from the interaction points to detect a small angular deflection, due to elastic and inelastic interactions. This
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SND@LHC Experiment: hunting for high-energy neutrinos and preparing for the HL run
SND@LHC Experiment: hunting for high-energy neutrinos and preparing for the HL run Using the Large Hadron Collider as a neutrino source is the goal of the SND@LHC experiment. High-energy neutrinos, from a few hundred GeV to a few TeV, have never been studied. Moreover, neutrinos, particularly electron and tau species, in the SND pseudo-rapidity region
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The 2024 n_TOF run: Highlights and perspectives
The 2024 n_TOF run: Highlights and perspectives Thanks to the excellent beam conditions provided by the PS staff, combined with the efficiency of research groups participating in the n_TOF Collaboration, an intense experimental program has been performed during the 252 days of measurements of the 2024 data-taking campaign at n_TOF. The facility will approach 2026
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CERN’s BASE-STEP: A Leap Forward in Antimatter Transport
CERN's BASE-STEP: A Leap Forward in Antimatter Transport Antimatter, often portrayed as the elusive counterpart to ordinary matter, has long captivated the scientific community with its potential to unlock some of the universe's most profound mysteries. Yet, one of the most significant challenges in studying antimatter is its inherent instability—it annihilates upon contact with matter,
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Silicon Photonics Circuits for Integrated Optical Readout of future High Energy Physics detectors
Silicon Photonics Circuits for Integrated Optical Readout of future High Energy Physics detectors Fibre optic links are crucial in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments, allowing the transmission of large volumes of data from particle detectors operating in harsh radiation environments to radiation-free zones. Silicon Photonics (SiPh) [1] has emerged as a promising optoelectronic technology for