Événements, Annonces, Publications
How Switzerland is preparing for the future of particle physics
The European Strategy for Particle Physics is intended to shape the future of particle physics. Under this strategy, the favoured option for the next major project at CERN is the Future Circular Collider. Switzerland seeks to consolidate its expertise in particle physics through targeted support instruments for technology, research and early-career researchers.
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Under the Alps: Assessing the Potential of Bedretto for Particle and Astroparticle Physics
ETH visits to the Bedretto Underground Laboratory
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The boundary between physics, mathematics and AI is becoming increasingly productive
Physicist and mathematician receive BRIDGE Discovery Grant to optimise supply chains with AI
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Uncle Scrooge discovers particle physics
Sometimes it takes a simple idea to get science concepts into children’s minds. When the world was in lockdown and parents everywhere juggled home schooling their kids, getting their own work done and keeping everybody happy and healthy, scientist Luigi Marchese thought back to his own childhood and had an idea. Why not combine what he loved as a child – reading comic books, especially the Italian “Topolino” magazine featuring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and co – and what he does as an adult – doing particle physics at the CMS detector – to keep kids edutained?
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Behind the Scenes of the Large Hadron Collider Upgrade
The Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, is a huge accelerator used by several detector collaborations with over 10,000 scientists to advance our understanding of fundamental physics. While we often cover news like the measurement of new particles or the precise determination of fundamental constants, today we would like to focus on the less visible work needed for the LHC detectors to function. We are speaking with Dr. Silke Möbius, a postdoctoral researcher, and Camilla Tognina, an electrical engineer, who are developing a read-out system for the new inner detector (Inner Tracker) of the ATLAS experiment. This project started in 2018 in the group of Professor Michele Weber at the University of Bern and involved in total 37 people at the various stages of the project.
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First CHIPP postdoc prize goes to PSI postdoc
Efrain P. Segarra awarded for his work on n2EDM
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Welcoming international students to Switzerland with S3P3
Simulations, shifts, chocolate and connections: next-generation particle physicists participate in Swiss Summer Student Particle Physics Program
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CHIPP prize 2025: Top precision for top quarks
University of Zurich graduate Chiara Savoini wins CHIPP PhD prize 2025
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The giant under the mountain
In a hole in the ground there lived… a detector, submerged in 260 million litres of ultrapure water. Sounds like the beginning of a great story? It probably will be in the future! For, to be precise the detector doesn’t live there yet; it needs to be built first. And it’s also not just any hole we are talking about: it’s one of the largest human-made caverns ever built (and thus nowhere near a cosy hobbit habitation). Excavation for it has just finished under Mount Nijugoyama in the Japanese Alps. Once complete and fully equipped, it will be home to a massively impressive neutrino detector: Hyper-Kamiokande. Swiss groups are holding the reins of many milestones and projects within the experiment collaboration.
Image : Kamioka Observatory, ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research), The University of Tokyo.