Tag: September 2021 – November 2021
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The 3D printed Detector (3DET) Project
The 3D printed Detector (3DET) Project Plastic scintillator is one of the most used active materials in high-energy physics. The “3D printed Detectors” (3DET) collaboration was formed in 2019 with the goal of investigating and developing additive manufacturing as a new production technique for future scintillator-based particle detectors. The 3DET collaboration includes research institutes and
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LHCb discovers a double-charm tetraquark
LHCb discovers a double-charm tetraquark Conventional mesons and baryons consist of a quark-antiquark and three quarks respectively. However, particles with an alternative quark content, known as exotic states, have been actively discussed since the birth of the constituent quark model in 1964. This discussion has been recently revived by observations of numerous tetraquark and pentaquark
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Departed giants of theoretical physics
Departed giants of theoretical physics July 23rd 2021 was a sad day for the world of theoretical physics, which witnessed the passing of three giants of the field: Steven Weinberg, Toshihide Maskawa and Miguel Virasoro. Weinberg and Maskawa were awarded Nobel Prizes for their contributions to the Standard Model of particle physics, while Virasoro was
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The many faces of ISOLDE
The many faces of ISOLDE You will stand across the street from the ISOLDE facility, when visiting CERN’s medical center, fire fighters, raw materials store, transport teams, or goods reception service. Located centrally at the Meyrin site (https://videos.cern.ch/record/2243399), ISOLDE has been the longest running CERN research facility, approved in 1964, connected to the synchrocyclotron (SC)
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Higgs boson and the quest for new physics
Higgs boson and the quest for new physics The discovery of a new particle in 2012 by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN was just the beginning in understanding the properties of this particle and its potential link to some of the most pressing fundamental questions in modern physics. Following its discovery, the LHC
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Update on the ECFA Roadmap for R&D on Detector Technologies
Update on the ECFA Roadmap for R&D on Detector Technologies It was reported in the previous edition of the EP Newsletter (1) that the European Strategy for Particle Physics Update (EPPSU (2) recommended that “Organised by ECFA, a roadmap should be developed by the community to balance the detector R&D efforts in Europe, taking into
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Google Summer of Code brings Students to HEP Software Projects
Google Summer of Code brings Students to HEP Software Projects Google Summer of Code is a programme that brings together students wanting to code for Open Source software projects and mentors who can introduce them to exciting projects and the full software development cycle. As a major supporter of Open Source software the EP-SFT group
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System-on-Chip in Particle Physics Experiments
System-on-Chip in Particle Physics Experiments Many experiments in particle physics use custom-built electronics boards in order to perform event triggering and data readout. For many years now, those electronics boards have been using Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for processing data. An FPGA is a type of integrated circuit that is reconfigurable and that provides fast
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ATLAS New Small Wheel upgrade advances
ATLAS New Small Wheel upgrade advances Group photo after the installation of the last sector of NSW-A. On the right is NSW-C with the first three sectors installed at the time. The New Small Wheel (NSW) upgrade is an ambitious project that aims to allow, along with other upgrade projects, to track and record data
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Successful installation of the CMS Pixel Tracker
Successful installation of the CMS Pixel Tracker In early 2019 the CMS Phase-1 Pixel detector was extracted from the underground cavern after successful completion of the LHC Run 2 data taking campaign. Its sub-detectors, the Barrel Pixel (BPIX) and Forward Pixel (FPIX) detectors, were stored cool and dry in a clean room facility on the