Tag: ECN3
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Beamline and physics studies
Beamline and physics studies 20 DECEMBER,2020 | By Markus Brugger Many experiments have started with an idea, initially discussed between few people only, and following good CERN tradition, often sitting around a cup of coffee (at least before the current COVID situation). For fixed target experiments, very early on an important question is raised, namely
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Safety first
Safety first 15 DECEMBER,2020 | By Markus Brugger COVID as particular safety aspect was and is with us, including all required protection measures taken seriously by all of you. We discussed related actions at various occasions, thoughtfully followed by CERN and all of you. From the very start of the initial lock-down, throughout all these
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North Experimental Area Cable Cleaning Campaign
North Experimental Area Cable Cleaning Campaign 11 DECEMBER, 2022 | By the NA-CONS team As part of the NA-Consolidation Project led by the BE-EA Group, a 5 week-long campaign took place at the end of this year’s shutdown to remove a huge number of obsolete cables from the Experimental Hall North 1 (EHN1) located at
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The P42 enigma
The P42 enigma 1 DECEMBER, 2022 | By Lau Gatignon Three new experiments submitted LOI’s to the SPSC for using ECN3 after LS3: HIKE, SHADOWS and SHIP. All request much higher beam intensities than now: 3 x1012 → 2 to 4 x1013 ppp. The difficulties to commission the P42 and K12 lines for NA62 underlined
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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 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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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
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Kaon beams and experiments at CERN
Kaon beams and experiments at CERN 9 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Lau Gatignon The recent history of kaon physics experiments at the SPS started in 1980 in the office of the later Nobel Prize winner Jack Steinberger with a small team of physicists including our Niels Doble, Heiner Wahl, Don Cundy and Italo Mannelli. They
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An East & North Areas teaser
An East & North Areas teaser 5 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Markus Brugger Our accelerator complex is a succession of machines that accelerate particles to increasingly higher energies, each stage boosting the energy of a beam of particles before injecting it into the next machine in the sequence. For protons it starts with the Linac4.