Tag: SPS
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AMS – A Fixed Target Experiment which you will not find in the Layout Database
AMS – A Fixed Target Experiment which you will not find in the Layout Database 22 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Dipanwita Banerjee, Johannes Bernhard and Roman Folch The variety and the extent of means deployed for the research at CERN are fascinating. One of the most exciting endeavors of the last decades is AMS. The
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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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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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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.
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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
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How a facility sets us ‘on fire’
How a facility sets us ‘on fire’ 3 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Markus Brugger, Nikolaos Charitonidis, Aboubakr Ebn Rahmoun, Alice Goillot, P. Simon, Vasiliki Stergio As mentioned in previous Advent stories, HiRadMat was originally conceived in 2009 as a test bench for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collimators at a time when ad hoc installations
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ECN3: Pushing Beam Intensities and ensuring a bright physics future
ECN3: Pushing Beam Intensities and ensuring a bright physics future 2 DECEMBER, 2023 | By Markus Brugger, Johannes Bernhard, Francisco SANCHEZ GALAN , and Yacine Kadi Last year CERN launched a taskforce with many of us involved to investigate a possible major intensity upgrade for the ECN3 cavern, currently housing the NA62 experiment, which searches