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April 2024 - June 2024
Researchers using the ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have achieved a breakthrough: the first observation of quantum entanglement in top quark pairs. This discovery, analyzing proton-proton collisions at incredibly high energies…
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April 2024 - June 2024
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, AMS, is a high-energy particle detector performing unprecedented-precision measurements of cosmic rays of rigidity (momentum/charge) ranging from GV to 3 TV on the International Space Station (ISS). AMS has now…
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April 2024 - June 2024
For a few years, the work of the LHC community has been split between the exploitation of the LHC Run2 and first Run3 data and the preparation for the High Luminosity (HL) phase. At the HL-LHC, the effort of searching for new physics will be…
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April 2024 - June 2024
As stated in the 2020 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, the existence of non-zero neutrino masses is a compelling sign of new physics. The worldwide neutrino physics program explores the full scope of the rich neutrino sector and…
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April 2024 - June 2024
Top image: An event display of a high-momentum Z boson event in the ATLAS detector associated with a number of “jets”, which are complex clusters of particles created via interactions mediated by the strong force. Precise measurements of fundamental…
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April 2024 - June 2024
Nature, as described by the Standard Model (SM), has decreed that stable or pseudo-stable subnuclear charged particles can only have an observable electrical charge of ±1e, where e is the charge of an electron and that there is no magnetic charge.…
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April 2024 - June 2024
The High-Luminosity LHC upgrade will provide an unprecedented challenge to the data acquisition and online event processing capabilities of ATLAS and CMS. Both experiments are currently undergoing major upgrades to prepare their detectors to cope…
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April 2024 - June 2024
Earth Observation (EO) and particle physics research have more in common than you might think. In both environments, whether capturing fleeting particle collisions or detecting transient traces of ocean plastics, rapid and accurate data analysis is…
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April 2024 - June 2024
In 1984, Alvaro de Rujula pointed out that the proton-proton collisions at the LHC would produce large fluxes of very high energy neutrinos in the forward direction [1]. In 2023, almost 40 years later, the FASER and SND experiments ushered in the…
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April 2024 - June 2024
Full speed ahead Layout of the SHiP experiment, with the target on the left and the experiment in the ECN3 hall. Credit: SHiP collaboration. In a significant step forward for particle physics, CERN’s Research Board recently approved the SHiP (…
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