Tag: Lau Gatignon
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Beamline for schools
Beamline for schools 4 DECEMBER, 2024 | By Lau Gatignon In 2013, the Beam Line for Schools (BL4S) project was invented and initiated by Christoph Rembser. He proposed to invite teams of secondary school students from all over the world to submit ideas for experiments that could be realised within a short time in one
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How a small number changed the universe
How a small number changed the universe More than 4 decades of kaon experiments in CERN’s North Area proved how a small number changed the universe. The recent history of kaon physics experiments at the SPS started in the beginning of 1980 in the office of the later Nobel Prize winner Jack Steinberger with a
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PBC Studies/Experiments becoming reality during the 2021 operation
PBC Studies/Experiments becoming reality during the 2021 operation 12 DECEMBER, 2021 | By Lau Gatignon and the PBC team The Physics Beyond Colliders (PBC) study brought in 2021 not only new ideas, but also the first real implementations and data taking. For many existing experiments the proposed new ideas come along with requests for ever
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The longest running experiment at the SPS
The longest running experiment at the SPS 4 DECEMBER, 2022 | By Lau Gatignon and Dipanwita Banerjee The M2 beam was the first beam to start operation in the North Area in 1978. As a dedicated high-intensity high-energy muon beam it served a very important and successful muon physics program, including the EMC, NMC and
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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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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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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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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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What experiment to run in ECN3 after LS3?
What experiment to run in ECN3 after LS3? 4 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Johannes Bernhard and Lau Gatignon In the context of the Physics Beyond Colliders (PBC) study, new ideas were solicited for experiments complementary to the ones at high-energy colliders. ECN3 is the only underground cavern in the North Area, where the highest intensities