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December 2022 - February 2023
SHINE (SPS Heavy Ion and Neutrino Experiment) [1] is a multi-purpose experiment studying hadron production in hadron-proton, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions. The programme on strong interactions includes studying the properties…
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December 2022 - February 2023
Installation location of the LHCf Arm2 detector in the absorber region 140m right of the ATLAS interaction point The first LHCf special run of the LHC Run 3 was successfully completed in September 2022, with the LHC providing the highest…
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December 2022 - February 2023
On axions The cosmologically established cold dark matter (CDM) makes about 84% of the Universe's total mass. In the era of precision cosmology, the composition of the CDM remains a mystery. Among the proposed hypothetical particles which could…
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December 2022 - February 2023
The outcome of the first year of data-taking after LS2 [1] was fruitful for n_TOF. The long beam-on period, along with the establishment of a third experimental area, the NEAR Station, resulted in a wealth of new experimental data taken at the…
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September 2022 - November 2022
… to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding You might think that particle physics has accomplished its goals with the discovery of the last piece of the Standard Model jigsaw puzzle, the…
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September 2022 - November 2022
On the 4th of July of 2022 we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the end of decades-long search for an experimental confirmation of the BEH mechanism, and the start of a new era. With the discovery of the Higgs boson, the last unknown fundamental…
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