Earlier in October, the Large Hadron Collider had a special run of colliding xenon nuclei; a new flavour compared to the standard proton and lead collisions foreseen in the LHC experimental programme.
The High Luminosity LHC programme not only pushes the frontiers of accelerator and detector technology, but it also brings enormous challenges to the software and computing that is used to turn high luminosity data into physics.
CERN History Days in February is an initiative to relaunch the CERN history project that resulted in three volumes of CERN history covering the period from the 1940s to 1970s.
A recent “Cross Collider” meeting at CERN showed that the physics of leptoquarks remains a rapidly evolving field on both experimental and theoretical fronts.
by Francis Anghinolfi and Federico Faccio (EP-ESE)
RADECS (RADiation Effects on Components and Systems) the yearly European conference in the field of radiation effects in electronics devices and systems was held in Geneva.
A record number of over three hundred physicists from the LHCb collaboration got together for the 7th edition of the workshop on the “Implications of LHCb measurements and future prospects”.