Category: Article
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T11 Beamline for CLOUD
T11 Beamline for CLOUD 21 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Johannes Bernhard, Aboubakr Ebn Rahmoun, Laurie Nevay and Giulia Romagnoli Did you know? The East Area T11 beamline in building 157 is bringing 3.5 GeV/c pions to the CLOUD experiment. The CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets) experiment was installed in the East Area in 2009 and
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Looking deeper into the muons with MUonE
Looking deeper into the muons with MUonE 21 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Dipanwita Banerjee and Sylvain Girod Elementary particles are characterized by a set of fundamental properties like mass, electrical charge, spin etc., There is another property that helps learn about these elementary particles deeply and that is called the magnetic moment. At the most
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The SHADOWS muon flux measurement
The SHADOWS muon flux measurement 20 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Florian Stummer SHADOWS is a proposed future beam dump experiment that would aim to unravel dark matter, in particular feebly-interacting particles. As you might have guessed, these particles are called that, because they are expected to only interact very weakly with the matter that we
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The CERN Small Giant: the Antimatter Factory
The CERN Small Giant: the Antimatter Factory 19 DECEMBER, 2023 | By François Butin, Giulia Romagnoli, Davide Did you know?? That the AD facility is some kind of mini-CERN in itself? The AD complex includes no less than: Did you know??? The AD ring was born in the 2000s on the ashes of the Antiproton
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The NA62 Experiment
The NA62 Experiment 22 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Lau Gatignon The NA62 experiment was proposed in 2005 and approved in December 2008 to search for the ultrarare kaon decay K+ → π+νν with a very tiny Standard Model branching fraction of 8×10-11, which means the decay happens only about once in 10 billion kaon decays.
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The BDF/SHiP Proposal
The BDF/SHiP Proposal 18 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Lau Gatignon Ten years ago(!) the SHiP collaboration submitted an Expression of Interest to the SPSC committee, in October 2013. Their idea was quite original at the time, namely to look for Feebly Interacting Particles or FIPS at the SPS. The idea was based on a new
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10th Anniversary for Beamline For Schools (BL4S)
10th Anniversary for Beamline For Schools (BL4S) 17 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Dipanwita Banerjee, Johannes Bernhard, Markus Brugger, Aboubakr Ebn Rahmoun and Maarten van Dijk Beamline for Schools (BL4S) is an extraordinary physics competition opportunity for high school students from all around the world initiated and organised here at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle
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What is PPS2 about, and how are we involved?
What is PPS2 about, and how are we involved? 16 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Markus Brugger When hadrons collide at the LHC into one another, in most cases, projectile protons break up in the collision and a large yield of energetic particles are produced and form as such the basis of all corresponding physics studies.
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Why do we study a Muon Collider if we have the FCC?
Why do we study a Muon Collider if we have the FCC? 15 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Roberto Losito The 2020 update of the European Strategy for Particle physics clearly identified as highest priority, after the full exploitation of the HL-LHC, the construction of a Higgs factory in order to study in detail the Higgs
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Why the ESPP and P5 strategy process are important to us
Why the ESPP and P5 strategy process are important to us 14 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Markus Brugger and Roberto Losito Throughout the past century, institutions like ours have used experiments of increasing energy and precision to uncover how the universe works at the smallest scales. Their efforts have led to the Standard Model of