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- Updating the European Strategy for Particle PhysicsUpdating the European Strategy for Particle Physics Key dates for the 2024-26 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics. On 21 March, the CERN Council formally launched the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, a two-year process involving the whole community that aims to develop a common vision for the future of particle physics in Europe within the international context. The process is expected to be concluded in June 2026 with the approval of the updated Strategy by the Council. According to the remit of the European Strategy Group (ESG), the aim of the Strategy update is to develop a visionary and concrete plan that greatly advances human knowledge in fundamental physics through the realisation of the next flagship project at CERN; this plan should attract and recognise the value of international collaboration and should allow Europe to continue to play a leading role in the field. In addition to the input of the particle physics community, the E…
- Computer Security: Security NIMBYsComputer Security: Security NIMBYs Security sucks. No doubt about it. It’s a cost factor, a resource drain, and does not provide any immediate benefit. It creates hurdles, inconveniences and complications. The same goes for driving licences, speed limits, insurance and any other kind of regulation. Security sucks like the nuclear power plant in view, the wind turbines or motorways within hearing distance or any kind of vaccination. However, while we all agree (don’t we?) that the existence of driving licences, speed limits, motorways, insurance, nuclear power plants, wind turbines, vaccinations and even “security” is justified, we feel that, ideally, it should not directly affect or impact us. NIMBY ─ “not in my backyard”. From the zillions of discussions we’ve had since the deployment of the new outer perimeter firewall, the new mail quarantining appliance and, with it, the roll-out of new antispoofing measures and the recent activation of two-factor authentication, it’s clear that N…
- ATLAS probes uncharted territory with LHC Run 3 dataATLAS probes uncharted territory with LHC Run 3 data Display of a collision event recorded by the ATLAS detector at an energy of 13.6 TeV, featuring two candidate displaced electrons each represented by a track (blue lines) that points to an energy deposit in the ATLAS calorimeter (green). The inset shows an axial view of the detector, illustrating the electron tracks displaced from the interaction point (red circle) by a few mm. (Image: ATLAS/CERN) (Image: ATLAS/CERN) Despite its immense success in describing the fundamental building blocks of matter and their interactions, the Standard Model of particle physics is known to be incomplete. Experiments around the globe and in space are therefore searching for signs of new physics phenomena that would guide physicists towards a more comprehensive theory. At the biannual ICHEP conference that took place in Prague earlier this week, the ATLAS collaboration presented its first results from searches for new physics at record collision ene…
- Bike to Work 2024: CERN achieves the best participation rateBike to Work 2024: CERN achieves the best participation rate This year’s Bike to Work campaign has come to an end and the outcome is very positive for CERN, with a higher rate of participation than ever before: 1037 people took up the challenge and joined one of the 276 CERN teams. Congratulations! One of the new bicycle shelters at CERN: a good place to park your bicycle and find out more about the benefits of commuting by bicycle. (Image: CERN) Bike to Work encourages workers in companies all over Switzerland to commute to work by bicycle as often as possible throughout May and June. This year, a total of 28% of CERN’s 3700 eligible population (staff and users) signed up to take part, placing the Organization in first place for the participation rate in its category (companies with 1000-4999 employees). Unfortunately, the CERN participants did not have much luck in winning team prizes this year, but some entrants did win individual prizes – well done to them! Road safety is a ke…
- ATLAS announces its 2024 Outstanding Achievement Award winnersATLAS announces its 2024 Outstanding Achievement Award winners The ATLAS collaboration held its seventh biennial Outstanding Achievement Awards ceremony on 20 June 2024. These awards recognise the invaluable technical work performed across the collaboration in various fields. This year, the Awards Committee honoured two individuals and seven groups for their exceptional contributions to detector operation, detector upgrades, software, computing and teamwork during the period from February 2022 to October 2023. “The work of the award winners demanded great creativity and determination,” said Sarah Demers, co-chair of the Awards Committee. “Not only were their contributions crucial during this recent data-taking period, but they also set the stage for high-quality physics analyses and operations in the years to come.” Find out about the award winners on the ATLAS website. ndinmore Wed, 07/24/2024 - 10:13 Byline ATLAS collaboration Publication Date Wed, 07/24/2024 - 10:12
- CMS congratulates its 2023 Award and Thesis Award winnersCMS congratulates its 2023 Award and Thesis Award winners CMS PhD Thesis Award winners 2023 CMS PhD Thesis Award winners 2023 (Image: CMS collaboration) Each year, the CMS collaboration honours the work of exceptional PhD students with the Thesis Award. This award recognises doctoral research conducted within the collaboration that pushes the boundaries of high-energy physics. Out of a highly competitive pool of 27 nominees, the winners of the 2023 CMS PhD Thesis Award are Jona Motta (LLR, Institut Polytechnique de Paris), Christopher Edward Brown (Imperial College London) and Spandan Mondal (RWTH Aachen University, Germany). “Doctoral students do a lot of impressive work in CMS. Writing a PhD thesis to document this work is a tremendous effort and achievement. Some of the students decide to invest substantial extra efforts in writing an exceptionally clear, effective and original documentation of their research work. They write for their peers, future students, who will follow in…
- HiLumi News: new large helium tanksHiLumi News: new large helium tanks Exceptional machines call for exceptional operations. Two large helium tanks for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) were installed at Point 1 in June, and two more at Point 5 in July. They will store the helium for the refrigerators that will cool the HL-LHC’s new focusing magnets on both sides of the ATLAS and CMS experiments. Each tank weighs over 62 tonnes and is 28 metres long and 3.5 metres in diameter. The tanks will each be able to store 250 cubic metres of gaseous helium at a pressure of 20 bars at room temperature, representing a weight of around 800 kg. As the tanks were manufactured in Portugal, it took more than eight days to transport them to CERN under escort as an abnormal load. The new refrigerators – one for each point – will be delivered next year. “We have a good year of work ahead of us to install the complete infrastructure and connect the tanks to the helium distribution system,” explains Antonio Suraci from the Cryogenics group.…
- CERN and Pro Helvetia announce the artists selected for the Connect India residencyCERN and Pro Helvetia announce the artists selected for the Connect India residency Connect is an art residency programme launched by Arts at CERN and Pro Helvetia in 2021, which serves as a platform to foster experimentation in art and science by bringing artists into contact with fundamental science and cutting-edge research at CERN and other international scientific organisations. The two awardees, Lou Masduraud and Shailesh BR, selected by a board of cultural experts, will be invited to a three-week residency at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) in Bengaluru, followed by a three-week stay at CERN in Geneva. They will receive support from the Arts at CERN and ICTS curatorial teams to explore new forms of artistic expression and transform these explorations into art productions. Shailesh BR is a visual artist based in Delhi NCR, India. His practice explores fundamental aspects of our world by examining existing knowledge, systems, traditions and philosophic…
