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October-December 2024
It has been more than ten years since the discovery of the first scalar particle at the electroweak scale. This particle was discovered at the LHC in 2012, and it was quickly found to be a scalar that is compatible with the Higgs boson predicted by…
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October-December 2024
The NA62 experiment at the CERN north area was built to investigate the ultra-rare K+ → π+νν̄ decay. Measurement of this decay, a golden mode for kaon physics, is considered a key flavour physics objective because it provides both a strong test of…
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October-December 2024
Solid state physics and biophysics research has been conducted at ISOLDE-CERN for almost 50 years [JOH2017]. Our role in supporting experimental equipment and manpower has enabled the development of on-site laboratories. This has several advantages…
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October-December 2024
Introduction The potential of semiconductor-based detectors for particle detection in nuclear and high-energy physics (HEP) has been identified as early as 1960. However, it took two more decades of development to transform these detectors into…
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July 2024 - September 2024
Earlier this month, the Large Hadron Collider reached an unprecedented milestone of 100 inverse femtobarns – equivalent to 10 million billion collisions – delivered to the ATLAS and CMS experiments in 2024, with 28 days of proton-proton collisions…
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July 2024 - September 2024
Great progress has been made in the ATLAS operation since the last EP news article. There we presented the fantastic Phase-I upgrades of the ATLAS detector installed during LS2, described the steps towards their commissioning, and summarized…
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July 2024 - September 2024
The Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) is recognized for performing the most precise measurements of the fundamental properties of antiprotons and protons, such as the 16 p.p.t. precision measurement of the antiproton-to-proton charge-to-…
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July 2024 - September 2024
The Strategic R&D Programme on Technologies for Future Experiments of the EP Department (EP R&D) develops the detector technologies needed for the next generation of High Energy Physics experiments and recently concluded phase I (2020-2023)…
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July 2024 - September 2024
In April 2024, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration released their first cosmological results [1]. These results made the news primarily because they showed some hints of dynamical dark energy (see the article in the same…
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July 2024 - September 2024
DESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe to date. Earth is at the center of this thin slice of the full map. In the magnified section, it is easy to see the underlying structure of matter in our universe. Claire Lamman/DESI…
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