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Monday 29 April 2024
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Authors: Gianluigi Arduini, CERN, Kristiane Bernhard-Novotny, CERN, Joerg
Jaeckel, University of Heidelberg, Gunar Schnell, UPV/EHU &
Ikerbasque Bilbao, and Claude Vallée, CPPM-Marseille
The Physics Beyond Colliders (PBC)
Study was launched in 2016 to explore the opportunities offered by
CERN’s unique accelerator and experimental area complex and expertise to
address some of the outstanding questions in particle physics through
experiments complementary to the high-energy frontier. Together with the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments, the PBC proposals form a
synergistic partnership, which fosters an ecosystem beyond
collider-based research and diversifies CERN’s science programme at the
precision and intensity frontiers.
The fifth PBC annual workshop
was held from 25 to 27 March at CERN to explore new ideas and avenues
aiming to answer open questions of the Standard Model and beyond, and to
provide updates of ongoing projects.
The
Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) North Area (NA) is one of the major
fixed-target experimental facilities available at CERN and it is at the
very heart of many present and proposed explorations for Beyond the
Standard Model (BSM) physics. The NA includes an underground cavern
(ECN3) for experiments requiring high-energy/high-intensity proton
beams. Several proposals have been made for experiments to operate in
ECN3 in the next decade and beyond. All of them require higher intensity
proton beams than currently available. One of these proposals studied
within PBC, SHiP (Search for Hidden Particles), aiming for a
comprehensive investigation of the Hidden Sector in the GeV mass range
at a dedicated Beam Dump Facility (BDF) [1], has been recently approved.
Together with the activities of NA64, an experiment leading the
searches for light dark particles with a versatile setup suited for
electron [2], positron [3], muon [4] and hadron beams [5], this will
significantly strengthen CERN’s focus towards dark-sector searches.
The
FASER [6] and SND [7] experiments, now taking data at the LHC and
originated in the first phase of the PBC initiative, contribute to both
New Physics searches and to the study of very high-energy neutrinos. The
proposed Forward Physics Facility (FPF), located in the line of sight
of the interaction point 1 of the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) 620 m
away from it, could increase sensitivity to BSM physics by a factor of
about 10,000 over FASER and it could allow for the detection of
thousands of neutrinos at TeV-energies per day with the potential of
contributing to the measurement of parton-distribution functions with
improved precision, benefitting the HL-LHC physics reach. The experiment
consists of a series of sub-detectors of relatively small size. The FPF
detectors’ layout definition and the corresponding integration studies
have made significant progress as one of the main PBC-supported studies
in view of the publication of a document describing the facility’s
technical infrastructure by mid-2024.
proANUBIS
[8], CODEX-beta [9] and MATHUSLA [10] are also actively being studied
and would be located at large angles to the collision line of sight at
the ATLAS, LHCb and CMS experiments.
Remaining
in the realm of the Standard Model, a new NA60+[11] experiment with
lead ions and NA61/SHINE[12] with light ions aim to uncover the onset of
the Quantum Chromo Dynamics (QCD) phase transition at energy scales
only accessible at the SPS, holding promise to decode the phases of
nuclear matter in the non-perturbative regime of QCD. Understanding QCD
means further to unravel the emergent properties of baryons and mesons.
The AMBER [13] experiment plans to determine the charge radii of kaons
and pions and to perform meson spectroscopy, in particular with kaons,
within a wide range of experimental activities proposed beyond the next
accelerator long Lshutdown (LS3). A substantial study has been carried
out to enhance the number of identifiable kaons in the hadron beam
delivered to AMBER. This could be achieved by improving the vacuum
conditions and by the implementation of a dedicated optics in the
beamline to the experiment.
To
complement results obtained at AMBER’s predecessors COMPASS, HERA, and
other experiments using a polarized beam and/or target, the LHCSpin
collaboration presented their proposal [14] to open a new frontier and
to introduce spin physics at the LHC with a gaseous polarised target
following the successful commissioning of the SMOG2 unpolarised-gas cell
[15]. This would result in a new probe for studying collective
phenomena at the LHC. Moreover, this would provide access to the
multi-dimensional nucleon structure in a kinematic domain of hitherto
limited exploration and make use of new probes, for instance by using
charm mesons.
The
TWOCRYST collaboration aims to demonstrate the feasibility and the
performance of a possible fixed-target experiment in the LHC to measure
electric and magnetic dipole moments (EDMs and MDMs) of charmed baryons
[16], offering a complementary platform for the study of Charge-Parity
(CP) violation in the Standard Model. These baryons would be generated
by the collision of the protons of the secondary beam halo channelled by
a crystal onto a target. MDM and EDM would be determined by measuring
the baryon spin precession in the strong electric field of a crystal
installed immediately downstream of the target.
The
conceptual design of a beamline to produce a tagged neutrino beam to
improve the precision of neutrino cross-section measurements has been
developed combining the ENUBET [17] and NuTag [18] proposals. This
design would significantly increase the amount of tagged neutrinos
generated within a given geometric acceptance and energy band.
The
Gamma Factory (GF) collaboration, which aims to demonstrate the
principle of the Gamma Factory in the SPS, reported the progress
achieved at IJCLab (France) in the development of the laser system
required for this facility. The GF scheme is based on resonant
excitation of ultra-relativistic partially stripped ions (that could be
made available at the SPS and LHC) with a laser beam tuned to the atomic
transition frequencies, followed by the process of spontaneous emission
of photons. The resonant excitation of atomic levels of highly ionised
atoms (ions) is possible due to the large energies of the ions
generating a Doppler frequency boost of the counter-propagating laser
beam photons by a factor of up to 2g, where g is the relativistic
factor. Spontaneously-emitted photons produced in the direction of the
ion beam, when seen in the laboratory frame, have their energy boosted
by a further factor of 2g. As a consequence, the process of absorption
and emission results in a frequency boost of the incoming photon of up
to 4g 2. In the GF scheme, the SPS (LHC) atomic beams play
the role of photon “frequency converters” of eV-photons into keV (MeV)
X-rays (γ-rays). These intense and quasi-monochromatic beams could be
used in a variety of atomic, nuclear and particle physics experiments
[19] and they could potentially find application to energy production or
nuclear-waste transmutation as well as the generation of intense
positron and muon beams for future accelerator facilities.
High
quality factor superconducting radio-frequency cavities, similar to
those used for the acceleration of charged particles in accelerators,
can also be used to detect axions (hypothetical particles that might be
able to explain both the strong CP violation problem and account for
dark matter) and even gravitational waves, and they can also be of
interest for developing multi-qubit systems. The design and fabrication
of a superconducting cavity for the heterodyne detection of axion-like
particles over a wide range of masses [20] is the subject of a joint
project between PBC and the CERN Quantum Technology Initiative. Atom
Interferometry is another subject of common interest between the two
CERN initiatives and PBC has demonstrated the technical feasibility of
installing an atom interferometer with a baseline of 100 m in one of the
LHC access shafts [21].
The
charged-particle EDM collaboration presented the status of their
approach to build a prototype ring that would validate the main concepts
of a ring required to perform the first direct measurement of a proton
EDM [22] and evaluate the sensitivity reach of such measurement.
The
proposed injectors of the Future Circular electron-positron Collider
(FCC-ee) [23] will significantly expand the variety of the offer of the
CERN accelerator complex in terms of beam types and parameters,
potentially opening up the possibility of new experiments. New ideas
have been also presented, ranging from the measurement of molecular EDMs
at the ISOLDE (Isotope Separator On Line DEvice) Radioactive Ion Beam
Facility, over the prospects for antiproton physics at the Antiproton
Decelerator (AD) and the Extra Low ENergy Antiproton (ELENA) ring, to
the measurement of the gravitational effect of the LHC beam.
With
these highlights in stock, many fruitful discussions, the annual
workshop concluded as a resounding success. The PBC community thanked
Claude Vallée (CPPM, Marseille), who retired as PBC co-coordinator and
co-founder of the PBC initiative, after almost a decade of integral
work, and welcomed Gunar Schnell (UPV/EHU & Ikerbasque, Bilbao) who
will take on this role.
A small part of the community who contributes with lively discussions
and innovative proposals and projects to the success of PBC.
Credit: K.
Bernhard-Novotny (CERN)
[1] SHiP Collaboration, BDF/SHiP at the ECN3 high-intensity beam facility, CERN-SPSC-2022-032 ; SPSC-I-258
[2] Yu. M. Adreev et al. , Search for Light Dark Matter with NA64 at CERN, Phys.Rev.Lett. 131 (2023) 16, 161801
[3] Yu. M. Adreev et al. , Probing light dark matter with positron beams at NA64, Phys.Rev.D 109 (2024) 3, L031103
[4]
Yu. M. Adreev et al. , Exploration of the Muon g−2 and Light Dark
Matter explanations in NA64 with the CERN SPS high energy muon beam, arxiv:2401.01708 ; accepted by PRL
[5]
S. Gninenko et al., Test of vector portal with dark fermions in the
charge-exchange reactions in the NA64 experiment at CERN SPS, arxiv:2312.01703
[6] H. Abreu et al., First Direct Observation of Collider Neutrinos with FASER at the LHC, Phys.Rev.Lett. 131 (2023) 3, 031801
[7] R Albanese et al., Observation of Collider Muon Neutrinos with the SND@LHC Experiment, Phys.Rev.Lett. 131 (2023) 3, 031802
[8] A Shah et al., Searches for long-lived particles with the ANUBIS experiment, PoS EPS-HEP2023 (2024) 051 / A Shah et al., Installation of proANUBIS – a proof-of-concept demonstrator for the ANUBIS experiment, PoS LHCP2023 (2024) 168
[9] C Aielli et al., The Road Ahead for CODEX-b, arXiv:203.07316
[10] C Alpigani et al., An Update to the Letter of Intent for MATHUSLA: Search for Long-Lived Particles at the HL-LHC, arXiv:2009.01693
[11] NA60+ Collaboration, Letter of Intent: the NA60+ experiment, CERN-SPSC-2022-036; SPSC-I-259, Geneva, 2022, https://cds.cern.ch/record/2845241
[12]
NA61/SHINE Collaboration, Addendum to the NA61/SHINE Proposal: A
Low-Energy Beamline at the SPS H2, CERN-SPSC-2021-028 /
SPSC-P-330-ADD-12, Geneva 2021, https://cds.cern.ch/record/2783037/files/SPSC-P-330-ADD-12.pdf
[13] C Quintas et al., The New AMBER Experiment at the CERN SPS, Few Body Syst. 63 (2022) 4, 72
[14] P. Di Nezza et al., The LHCspin Project, Acta Phys.Polon.Supp. 16 (2023) 7, 7-A4
[15]
C. Boscolo Meneguolo, et al., Study of beam-gas interactions at the LHC
for the Physics Beyond Colliders fixed-target study, JACoW proceedings (2019)
[16] S. Aiola et al., Progress towards the first measurement of charm baryon dipole
moments, Phys. Rev. D 103, 072003 (2021).
[17] F Acerbi et al., Design and performance of the ENUBET monitored neutrino beam, Eur.Phys.J.C 83 (2023) 10, 964
[18] A Baratto-Roldan et al., NuTag: proof-of-concept study for a long-baseline neutrino beam, arXiv:2401.17068
[19]
D. Budker, M. Gorchtein, M. W. Krasny, A. Pálffy, A. Surzhykov
(editors), Physics Opportunities with the Gamma Factory, Annalen der
Physik, Volume 534, Issue 3 (2022)
[20] A Berlin et al., Heterodyne Broadband Detection of Axion Dark Matter, Phys. Rev. D 104, L111701
[21] G. Arduini et al., A Long-Baseline Atom Interferometer at CERN: Conceptual Feasibility Study, arXiv:2304.00614", CERN-PBC-REPORT-2023-002, Geneva, 2023, https://cds.cern.ch/record/2851946
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F. Abusaif, et al., Storage ring to search for electric dipole moments
of charged particles: Feasibility study, CERN Yellow Reports:
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CERN-ACC-2018-0057, Geneva, December 2018. Published in Eur. Phys. J.
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Posted By Gina Gunaratnam,
Thursday 18 April 2024
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Author: Thomas Lohse, chair of EPS HEPPD from 2013-2015
In 1964, Peter Higgs published his famous paper on a self-consistent
theory of vector bosons with non-vanishing mass, paving the road towards
today’s theory of electroweak interactions of elementary particles. The
mass-creation mechanism implied the existence of a new particle, today
known as the Higgs boson. This spin-zero particle is
fundamentally different from all other known elementary particles.
For
several decades, all experimental efforts to find this new particle
were unsuccessful, until in the 1990s precision experiments at highest
energy electron positron colliders measured effects consistent with those created by virtual Higgs bosons in quantum fluctuations. Although
not yet an unambiguous discovery, the High Energy Particle Physics
Division of the European Physical Society reacted by awarding at the
1997 International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics in
Jerusalem the prestigious EPS HEPP Prize to Peter Higgs, together with
Robert Brout and Fraçois Englert, who had independently and almost
simultaneously discovered and published the mass-generation mechanism
back in 1964.
The indisputable discovery of the Higgs boson, by
then the holy grail of elementary particle physics, had to wait for new
record energies to be reached at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. In 2012 the ATLAS and CMS experiments independently announced the discovery
of a new particle which was subsequently shown to have all the
predicted properties of the precious Higgs boson. The European Physical
Society reacted promptly and awarded the 2013 EPS HEPP Prize to the two
experimental collaborations and three of their leading scientists at the
EPS conference which took place in July 2013. Both, François Englert
and Peter Higgs joined the conference. Peter Higgs gave a highlight talk
– challenging the organizers by using a classical overhead projector –
and explained the theoretical developments which allowed him and his
colleagues to come up with nothing less than a brilliant break-through
for elementary particle physics. Sadly, Robert Brout, who died in
2011, didn’t live to see this historical event. Not unexpectedly, only a
few months after the conference, François Englert and Peter Higgs had
to return to Stockholm, this time to receiving the 2013 Nobel Prize in
Physics.
On the 8th of April 2024, Peter Higgs died in
Edinburgh at the age of 94. The elementary particle community has lost a
visionary theorist and a very modest and polite friend.
Impressions of the EPS HEP conference with Peter Higgs and François Englert, Stockholm 2013 - image credit: Gina Gunaratnam/EPS
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Posted By Gina Gunaratnam,
Monday 1 April 2024
Updated: Monday 18 March 2024
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Author: Rüdiger Voss
Herwig Schopper, EPS President from 1995 to 1997, celebrated his 100th birthday on 28 February
Herwig
Schopper was born in Lanškroun (Landskron), in a German-speaking region
of what is now the Czech Republic. Shortly after the end of World War
II, he started studying physics at the University of Hamburg where he
received his PhD in 1951. He soon embarked on a prestigious academic
career which took him to professorships in Mainz, Karlsruhe, and later
in Hamburg, making landmark contributions to experimental nuclear
physics, particle physics, and accelerator technology. During these years, he already demonstrated his talents as a science administrator: in
1973, he was appointed chairman of the DESY board of directors; in 1981
he began an eight-years term as Director-General of CERN, notably
overseeing the construction of the large electron-positron collider LEP
in the same 27 km tunnel which today houses the Large Hadron Collider.
Following
his term of office at CERN, Herwig started a new career as science
diplomat that keeps him active to this day. From 1992-94, he served
as president of the German Physical Society, and from 1995-97 he was
president of the EPS. In subsequent years, he held several important
positions at UNESCO, including chairing the advisory committee for the
International Basic Science Programme (2003-2009). Guided by his strong
personal vision of “science for peace”, he embarked on his most
ambitious science diplomacy project: the SESAME light source in the
middle east which was inaugurated in Jordan in 2017.
On 1 March,
Herwig's unique personality and countless achievements were celebrated
at CERN with a festive symposium, “A century in physics”, by a
prestigious line-up of speakers who had witnessed different stages of
his life and career, including Nobel Prize Winner Samuel Ting and Herwig's children Doris and Andreas. In a short message, EPS President-elect
Mairi Sakellariadou recalled Herwig Schopper’s merits as the president
who steered our society with his characteristic quiet and unassuming,
but highly effective approach to management through the tumultuous
period when the seat and the secretariat were moved from Geneva to
Mulhouse, saving the EPS from a severe political and financial crisis.
The EPS is immensely grateful to its former president for his leadership
and for his lifelong devotion to science and peace: congratulations
Herwig on your uncountable achievements, and good luck and good health
for many more years to come!
A more comprehensive appraisal of Herwig Schopper’s life and work will appear in a forthcoming issue of Europhysics News (55/2).
Three
generations of CERN Directors-General: Herwig Schopper and Fabiola
Gianotti cutting the birthday cake, critically watched by Rolf Heuer - image credit: Rüdiger Voss
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Posted By Administration,
Monday 19 February 2024
Updated: Monday 19 February 2024
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Author: Monica Constatin and Enrique Sánchez Bautista
In an ever-evolving landscape of scientific progress, where breakthroughs continually reshape our understanding of the world, the role of civil society in science is becoming increasingly vital. Recognising this mutual exchange between civil society and researchers, initiatives like Citizen Science[1] have emerged as powerful conduits for public engagement with scientific research. Strongly supported by the European Commission, Citizen Science fosters collaboration between citizens and the scientific community, paving the way for impactful contributions to knowledge and policy formation.
The Surrounded by Science (SbS) project, funded by the Horizon 2020 programme, promotes and advocates for Citizen Science and other forms of informal scientific education. The European Physical Society (EPS) continues its committment of promoting scientific engagement by holding the second EPS Citizen Science Competition. This is an initiative designed to bring citizens closer to current research projects via Zooniverse, an online platform facilitating civil society to get involved and to engage in scientific research.
Building upon the success of the first EPS Citizen Sience Competition 2022, this second edition invites individuals to embark on a thrilling scientific journey between 1st-29th February 2024, where participants are encouraged to join the GWitchHunters project on the Zooniverse platform and participate in the classification challenge posed by the project. The GWitchHunters project focuses on enhancing the capabilities of the Virgo Gravitational Wave detector, offering participants a unique opportunity to contribute to a real gravitational wave astronomy experiment. The competition not only empowers citizens to actively participate in scientific research, but also offers enticing incentives, namely the change to win one of the three travel grants to explore the cutting-edge facilities of EGO-Virgo, European Gravitational Observatory, located in Pisa, Italy. As such, winners of these grants will gain firsthand experience in state-of-the-art research facilities, further enriching their scientific knowledge.
Beyond this competition, initiatives like Surrounded by Science and the Science Chaser app offer additional avenues for engagement of civil society in STEM subjects, underscoring the multifaceted nature of informal science education. By leveraging digital tools and innovative methodologies, these initiatives strive to democratize access to scientific knowledge and foster a sense of ownership and empowerment among citizens who are not professionally involved in research. If you want to participate in the competition, visit the competition page on the SbS website.
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Posted By Administration,
Tuesday 17 October 2023
Updated: Tuesday 24 October 2023
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Author: Sascha Schmeling
Beamline for Schools
Beamline for Schools 2024 is about to start! This physics competition for high school students from all around the
world invites them to propose an experiment that they want to perform
at a beamline. The popular competition reaches its 10th anniversary
in 2024. Three winning teams will be selected, two teams will perform
their experiments at CERN and one at DESY.
There will be additional
prizes for up to 40 selected teams (https://beamline-for-schools.web.cern.ch/bl4s-competition/prizes). All the prospective participants who preregister to the competition (https://beamlineforschools.cern/form/preregistration-2024)
will have the possibility to follow online events and virtual visits
prior to the submission of their proposal.
The deadline to submit a
proposal is 10 April 2024 at 23:59 CEST.
Further information can be found in the official invitation (https://beamline-for-schools.web.cern.ch/sites/default/files/Invitation_BL4S_2024.pdf).
CERN International Teacher Programmes 2024
The
application process for CERN’s international teacher programmes 2024
opens on 1st November 2023! The HST Programme will take place from 30 June
- 14 July 2024 and the ITW Programme will take place from 4th-17th August
2024!
Apply via http://teachers.cern!
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Posted By Administration,
Thursday 24 August 2023
Updated: Thursday 24 August 2023
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Author: Gordana Medin
The third Hands-on Edition of the EPS
Technology & Innovation Group on optics, powerful lasers, wakefield,
plasma accelerators, and intense terahertz pulses, usually organized at
CERN in Geneva, this time took place at Petrovac, Montenegro, between
July 7 and 9, 2023. 34 students from Poland, Czech Republic, Croatia, and the
Balkans were present to build absorption/emission spectroscopy
experiments and measure transient currents in state-of-the-art timing
detectors developed for CMS and ATLAS High Energy Physics experiments at
the HL-LHC in CERN. For the first time, the Workshop was organized in a
hybrid mode: in-person and online. Eight students attended the Workshop
remotely (from Germany, Spain, Italy, and Portugal).
On
the first day, students received introductory lectures. Dusan Medin,
representing the local community, gave a talk titled: "Montenegro from
West to East" after the Chairperson of the event, Prof. Gordana
Lastovicka-Medin from the University of Montenegro welcomed
participants. This was followed by a talk given by Markus Nordberg from
CERN: "The importance and role of serendipity in instrumentation
innovation". Massimo Ferrario, senior scientist at INFN Frascati,
coordinator of the SPARC_LAB facility at the Frascati INFN Laboratories,
where the first FEL driven by a plasma accelerator has been recently
demonstrated, brought an outstanding talk: "Accelerating the future". In
his fascinating talk, Massimo introduced students to new acceleration
technique mechanisms and discussed the most interesting and inspiring
results and applications obtained so far, including a description of the
new accelerator facility EuPRAXIA based on plasma modules to built in
the next decade. A week later we learned that Massimo was one of the
three winners of the prestigious “2023 Enrico Fermi Prize” of the
Italian Physical Society (SIF). Congratulations to him! The president
of the EPS and research scientist at CEA (French Commission for Atomic
Energy and Alternative Energies), Luc Bergé, who is also a member of the
EPS-TIG Board gave a talk on THz Physics. Located between microwaves
and optical waves in the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz waves can
now be exploited in molecular spectroscopy from plasma emitters produced
by femtosecond laser pulses ionizing gases such as air. Luc Berge
firstly overviewed the recent results on the plasma-based terahertz
spectroscopy of materials in the context of the project ALTESSE;
secondly, new THz radiation originating from the ponderomotively driven
in strongly magnetized plasmas was discussed. Mateusz Rebarz, a laser
expert from ELI Beamlines (Prague) who was also a demonstrator at the
Workshop, introduced students to the potential of the laser facility,
ELI ERIC while Prof. Gordana Lastovicka-Medin gave an overview of the
R&D on the Low Gain Avalanche Detectors (LGAD) that are now a mature
technology and baseline for the timing detectors at the ATLAS and the
CMS #experiments at LHC. She also overviewed the main features of the
Technique of transient currents (TCT). On the evening of day 1,
participants also enjoyed exploring the historical points of Petrovac,
local fortress and Gallery.
The
second day started with the students' poster presentations. The poster
session was aimed to give the students a chance to present the piece of
research that they are particularly proud of. At the same time, it was
an effective way for students to get to know each other, as well as for
the lecturers to get to know the participants of the workshop.
Additionally, Anna Grigoryan from Republic of Armenia, participating as
the and hands-on training. Representative of EPS Young Mind (on-line)
introduced students to the association “EPS Young Minds”. For the
Hands-on training, the two experiments were set: 1) Absorption and
emission spectroscopy, and 2) Exploring sensors LGAD with TCT set up.
The students were assigned into groups, each being in charge of
realizing one subcomponent of a tutorial experiment on said topics.
Since eventually all pieces had to be integrated into a complete
experiment they did not only have to work on the technical tasks, e.g.,
assembling the electromechanical and optical setup or establishing the
data acquisition, but also on the coordination of their work with other
teams, where communication and interpersonal skills in technology and
scientific environments was key. Lunch was offered on the beautiful
sandy beach where students enjoyed a break while swimming and enjoying
the local street food. In the evening they played some games (such as
chess and cards) at the beach and worked on creating presentations about
their experiments (focused on reflecting on what they learnt).
On
the third day, in the morning, before the resumption of the
experiments, each group was tasked with presenting the results obtained
the previous day. This allowed the students to think about what they
were doing after performing the experiment, and through the presentation
to make a recapitulation of what was done and think about the
interpretation and meaningfulness of the results. This session was
moderated by Eugenio Nappi from INFN Frascati. For us seniors, it was
inspiring to watch and observe how the diversity of the “collaborators”
backgrounds including their knowledge was brought into and affected the
co-developing process. Students had different disciplinary backgrounds
and they have been at different academic levels, so, all this brought
different but necessary pieces necessary for them to overtake personal
limits and grow up with a new skill needed not only for the sake of
intellectual development but also to grow as people. All over it was
very successful event, with a lot of fun!
Images by Gordana Medin and Nevena Živković
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Thursday 23 March 2023
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The European Physical Society’s Accelerator Group (EPS-AG) has
announced the winners of its 2023 prizes, which are awarded every three
years for outstanding achievements in the accelerator field. The prizes
will be presented at an awards session during the International Particle
Accelerator Conference (IPAC’23), which takes place from 7th to 12th
May in Venice, Italy.
The EPS-AG Rolf Wideröe Prize for
outstanding work in the accelerator field has been given to Katsunobu
Oide, KEK and visiting scientist at CERN / University of Geneva, for his
many conceptual contributions to linear and circular particle
colliders. Examples include the Oide limit of final focus systems and
the design of the final focus test beam at SLAC, crab crossing in
circular colliders, the beam optics design code SAD, design work for
KEKB and KEK-ATF, advanced lattice design for the FCC study, and his
leading role in design, commissioning and performance optimization of
KEK accelerators.
The EPS-AG Gersh Budker Prize for a
recent, significant, original contribution to the accelerator field has
been awarded to Mikhail Krasilnikov, DESY/Zeuthen, for his achievements
in the development of high brightness electron beams and a high power,
tunable THz SASE free electron laser based on those beams, demonstrating
lasing at the PITZ facility in 2022.
The EPS-AG Frank Sacherer Prize for
an individual in the early part of his or her career goes to Xingchen
Xu, Fermilab, for his contributions in demonstrating the effectiveness
of the internal oxidation method in Nb3Sn wires to strongly improve the
performance of this superconductor by using artificial pinning centers,
opening the way to the next generation of high field accelerator
magnets.
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Posted By Administration,
Monday 20 March 2023
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Authors: Monica Constantin and Enrique Sánchez-Bautista
The European Physical Society (EPS) is pleased to announce that the
EPS Citizen Science Competition has four winners, who receive travel
grants to each visit one of the two most renowned research centres in Europe:
CERN, Geneva (Switzerland) or EGO-Virgo, Pisa (Italy).
During
September 2022, over 350 science enthusiasts joined the competition and
participated in two different citizen science projects. They made
classifications using real data from CERN and EGO-Virgo facilities in
the fields of High Energy Physics and Gravitational Wave Astronomy respectively. These challenges were conducted through the Zooniverse platform,
the world’s largest and most popular platform for citizen science
projects, that support real researchers to make groundbreaking new
discoveries.
The awardees were selected after a rigorous analysis
of the number and quality of the classifications they conducted and the
motivation letters expressing their genuine interest to visit CERN and
EGO-Virgo. The names of the awardees were officially announced on the
REINFORCE website and can be consulted here.
The awardees will travel in March 2023 and will have the chance to
spend one full day at CERN or EGO-Virgo, enjoying guided tours through
the research facilities, including visits to the control rooms, labs,
etc., accompanied by in-house scientists and engineers.
The EPS Citizen Science Competition was launched in the framework of the Surrounded by Science
project, an EU-funded project which aims at fostering out-of-school
science activities which can increase the interest in science to the
general public. We encourage you to visit the Surrounded by Science website, subscribe to its newsletter and follow it on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and Spotify in order to stay up-to-date with new citizen science competitions and activities!
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Posted By Administration,
Wednesday 16 November 2022
Updated: Thursday 17 November 2022
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Authors: EPS Technology and Innovation Group
The start of a Master thesis or PhD thesis project represents a
caesura in the academic education of many students in engineering and
physics. Frequently, the focus is no longer solely on acquiring
theoretical knowledge and understanding physical concepts, but rather on
conceptualizing, realizing, and operating an experimental setup suited
to investigate the research topic at hand. This change comes with the
need for a new set of skills.
This need in mind, the “Technology
and Innovation Group (TIG)” of EPS and the IdeaSquare innovation space
at CERN hosted the “2nd EPS TIG Hands-on Event for Science, Technology
and Interface” from September 30 to October 2 at CERN, Geneva. On day 1
the 19 participating students from across Europe received introductory
lectures into rapid prototyping and IP-related questions from Markus
Nordberg and visited the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), the particle
detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). On day 2 they were
introduced into different technologies - NV center-based quantum sensing
and nm-precise position sensing– by Prof. Jan Meijer (University
Leipzig) and Olivier Acher (HORIBA), respectively, who joined remotely.
Afterwards the students were assigned into groups, each being in charge
of realizing one subcomponent of a tutorial experiment on said topics.
Since eventually all pieces had to be integrated into a complete
experiment they did not only have to work on the technical tasks, e.g.,
assembling the electromechanical and optical setup or establishing the
data acquisition, but also had to coordinate their work with the other
teams, pointing out the importance of communication and interpersonal
skills in technology and scientific environments. Eventually the results
were shared in a final presentation, such that all participants left
Geneva with many valuable insights into the skills required to set up an
experiment and the challenges that come with experimental work.
The
TIG would like to thank EPS and the CERN IdeaSquare for the generous
support of the event, Prof. Meijer Olivier Acher for their involvement,
and Markus Nordberg and Stefan Kubsky for organizing and leading the
workshop.
Presentation of measured deca-nanometer drift induced by thermal gradients in the compact superresolution sensor hands-on experiment
Image credit: Stefan Kubsky
Some twenty participants from across Europe seem to have liked the event
Image credit: Stefan Kubsky
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Posted By Administration,
Thursday 8 September 2022
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Would you like to participate in Citizen Science projects and win a
trip to CERN or EGO-Virgo? Take part in the EPS Citizen Science
Competition 2022, a unique opportunity fit for every science enthusiast.
Help
us support researchers in the fields of High Energy Physics and
Gravitational Wave Astronomy to optimize their detectors to make
groundbreaking new discoveries!
Deadline is 30th September. Details at: http://reinforce.ea.gr/eps-citizen-science-competition/
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