Newsletter Articles
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December 2023 - February 2024
The first edition of the RD51 Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors (MPGD) School was held at CERN from November 27th to December 1st, 2023. The school focused on state-of-the-art MPGD technologies with the goals of introducing newcomers to the field of…
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December 2023 - February 2024
DIRAC and Rucio are two software projects used for scientific computing. Both projects are led by CERN, and the EP department is one of the major contributors to both. DIRAC is used by CERN experiments such as LHCb, CLIC, FCC, NA62, and non-…
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March 2024 - June 2024
When astronauts look at the Earth from orbit, they are often awed by its beauty and isolation. They speak of the overview effect; a cognitive shift to a new larger perspective that gives context and meaning to their lives. For physicists, a similar…
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December 2023 - February 2024
The first stage of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Integrated Project is a high-luminosity, high-energy electron-positron collider, serving as a Higgs, top and electroweak factory. The second stage is an energy frontier hadron collider, with…
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June 2023 - August 2023
Jet substructure (JSS) has emerged as a powerful framework for studying the Standard Model (SM) and provides a key set of tools for probing nature at the highest energy scales accessible by terrestrial experiments. While not an…
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June 2023 - August 2023
The Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) experiment with the associated Beam Dump Facility (BDF), currently under consideration for implementation in the SPS ECN3 beam facility, is designed to perform a generic and exhaustive search for feebly…
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June 2023 - August 2023
Who breaks Electroweak symmetry? It sounds like a simple question and the Standard Model of Particle Physics, the prevailing theory for the last half century, has a simple answer - it’s the Higgs. The Standard Model theory predicts that the Higgs…
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June 2023 - August 2023
While the new Inner Tracking System detector, ITS2, could finally start its data taking in nominal operation for the RUN3 of LHC, ALICE is already working at replacing the three innermost layers during LS3. The ITS3 (Fig.1) is a new vertex detector…
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June 2023 - August 2023
The story starts in September 2022 while, during the ECAL Operations meeting our veteran electronics expert, Evgueni Vlassov reported that the voltage in one of the control cards was unstable. He prophetically proposed that the cause might be water…
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