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MoEDAL releases new mass limits for the production of monopoles

In April, the MoEDAL collaboration submitted its first physics-research publication on the search for magnetic monopoles utilising a 160 kg prototype MoEDAL trapping detector exposed to 0.75 fb–1 of 8 TeV pp collisions, which was…

CAST in Time – The Quest for Axions and Chameleons

Dark Matter makes up a quarter of the universe and is five times more abundant than normal matter such as neutrons, protons, electrons and neutrinos. Without it, galaxies would fall apart, and stars would spin off into space. Yet we have not…

NA62 exploits the first high intensity kaon beam of 2015

Last May, the newsletter reported about the two-month pilot run of 2014 and how NA62 was preparing for the 2015 data taking: this became reality for five months between mid-June and mid-November, an exciting but exhausting period for our…

MOEDAL - A New Light on LHC Physics

MoEDAL is a pioneering experiment designed to search for highly ionizing avatars of new physics such as magnetic monopoles or massive (pseudo-)stable charged particles. Its physics program defines over 34 scenarios that yield potentially…

First Pb beam in NA61/SHINE

December 1st ended a two-week test period with Pb beam in the NA61/SHINE fixed-target experiment [1]. Pb ions at momentum of 30A GeV/c were delivered from the CERN SPS to the experiment for the first time. The beam time was used to perform…

The Straw Detector in the NA62 Experiment

The NA62 experiment is the successor of a previous kaon decay experiment (NA48) operated in the same experimental area at the CERN SPS (see Fig.1). In December 2008, the CERN Research Board has authorized the collaboration to build new detectors,…

A boost for ISOLDE's beams

The new HIE-ISOLDE accelerator is up and running, increasing the beam energy of ISOLDE, CERN’s nuclear physics facility. Over the last few weeks, CERN's nuclear physics facility, ISOLDE (http://home.web.cern.ch/about/experiments/isolde), has been…

A Timelapse video of CAST

The CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST) is an experiment to search for hypothetical particles called axions. These have been proposed by some theoretical physicists to explain why there is a subtle difference between matter and…

n_TOF one year after - First results

Since the termination of the construction of the new second experimental area EAR2 [1,2] of n_TOF in July 2014 [3], the facility has been successfully taking data both in the existing experimental area EAR1 and in the new EAR2. The neutron…

COMPASS-II: A QCD Laboratory at CERN

With COMPASS-II CERN enters in the exploration of a new territory: the structure of the proton in multiple dimensions. While COMPASS-I primarily studied the distribution and polarisation of quarks and gluons in the nucleon as a function of the…

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