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ILC Newsline

26 January 2012

We're ready for our close-up
The capability for producing niobium sheets
December events and challenges ahead

CERN Bulletin

23 January 2012

Prevention is better than cure
Route de Meyrin-CERN: and the winner is...
LHC Report: The machine under maintenance
Behind the scenes at FameLab, the international competition for young scientists

DESY inForm

December 2011/January 2012

Trainee's got talent - here at DESY!
Safety first!
Long pipe for deepfreeze tests
Flash II gets under way

CERN Courier

January/February 2012

NEMO 3: the goals, results and legacy
Pursuit of deconfinement returns to the SPS
SuperKEKB goes in hunt of flavour at the terascale
The SuperB approach to high luminosity

ASPERA This Month

January 2012

ASPERA updates its Roadmap
What to expect in 2012?
"Quite likely, CTA will be the first to come"
Europeans keep the pace towards detecting GWs

symmetry magazine

October 2011

Reflections at 50
A Physicist in the Cancer Lab
Now Playing: Reality. In 3D

IN2P3

23 janvier 2012

La lettre électronique de l'IN2P3

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15 - 21 January 2012

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Quantum Diaries

The Role of the Individual in Science and Religion

January 27, 2012

Lady Hope (1842 – 1922)[1] in 1915 published a claim that Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) on his death bed had recanted his views on evolution and God. This story published thirty-three years after Darwin’s death was strongly denied by his family but has made the rounds of various creationist publications and web sites to [...]

Everytime a Belle Rings, A Hadron Gets Its Wings

January 27, 2012

Fun post for everyone today. In response to last week’s post on describing KEK Laboratory’s discovery of additional exotic hadrons, I got an absolutely terrific question from a QD reader: Surprisingly, the answer to “How does an electron-positron collider produce quarks if neither particle contains any?” all begins with the inconspicuous photon. No Firefox, I [...]

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January 27, 2012

12?26?(?)??28?(?)?3???KEK????Belle Plus(???????)2011????????????22????????????? Belle Plus?KEK?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????18????Belle????????????????????????5??????????? ?????B-Lab???????????????????????????????????????????????????KEK????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Belle Plus??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Belle Plus2011??????????????????????? Belle Plus?HP ?????http://belle.kek.jp/b-camp/report.html ????????????? ??????? http://www.kek.jp/ja/NewsRoom/Release/20120127130000/

Famelab: your chance to be on stage

January 26, 2012

For a few years now, Famelab has grown into an international competition for young scientists aged 18-35 eager to share their passion. Here is an unusual contest: participants are asked to communicate their work or interest in a 3-minute speech delivered to a general audience. In return, they get training from professionals (science communicators and [...]

Famelab: une chance de briller sur scène

January 26, 2012

Depuis quelques années déjà, Famelab est devenu une compétition internationale pour les jeunes de 18 à 35 ans intéressé-e-s à partager leur passion pour les sciences. Cette compétition est assez inhabituelle: les participant-e-s ont trois minutes pour décrire leur recherche ou un sujet qui les intéresse devant une audience tout-public. En retour, ils et elles [...]

Anatomy of an aurora

January 26, 2012

This week the Earth has seen some increased magnetic activity in the upper atmosphere, and that means we got to see aurore! Across Northern Europe and the Northern USA people looked to the skies to see the northern lights. An aurora is one of the most beautiful sights in the natural world, and a phenomenon [...]

Innovation at Fermilab: Liquid Argon Test Facility

January 24, 2012

This article first appeared in Fermilab Today on Jan. 24. Despite the biting cold and snow, scientists and Fermilab personnel gathered outside to break ground for Fermilab’s new Liquid Argon Test Facility. The facility, expected to be completed spring 2013, will house liquid-argon based experiments. Scientists have speculated since the 1980s that liquid argon could [...]

Fermilab restores savannas, helps wildlife

January 24, 2012

Editor’s note: One of the bonuses of Fermilab having much of its scientific infrastructure underground is that it allows for a wealth of open space on the 6,800-acre campus. Fermilab and volunteers from neighboring communities use that space to create havens of restored native habitats to help wildlife flourish. So far, more than 1,100 acres [...]

The largest neutrino detector?

January 22, 2012

So what is the largest neutrino detector in the world? This discussion came up in regards to a very nice little educational video on YouTube that mentions the ANITA experiment: (these minutephysics pieces are quite good!) So, ANITA is the balloon-borne experiment mentioned in the video and of which I am a collaborator. But folks [...]

The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

January 20, 2012

When I first started dabbling in the dark side and told people I was working on the philosophy of science, the most common response from my colleagues was: Oh the foundations of quantum mechanics? Actually not. For the most part, I find the foundations of quantum mechanics rather boring. Perhaps that is because my view [...]

That’s Right, Count Them: 4 Quarks

January 20, 2012

Hi All, Exciting news came out the Japanese physics lab KEK (@KEK_jp, @KEK_en) last week about some pretty exotic combinations of quarks and anti-quarks. And yes, “exotic” is the new “tantalizing.” At any rate, I generally like assuming that people do not know much about hadrons so here is a quick explanation of what they [...]

Getting layed

January 20, 2012

On a past blog post I came across the most wonderful comment from Kelly, one of our readers: Lay people are far smarter than it is supposed, they are also fickle and quick to get bored or offended if talked down to This got me thinking about the last time I spoke to an expert [...]

2012: l’année du dragon

January 20, 2012

Sans même avoir recours à une boule de cristal, on peut prédire ce que l ‘on peut espérer des expériences du Grand Collisionneur de Hadrons (ou LHC) au CERN pour 2012. En ce moment, l’accélérateur est à l’arrêt pour procéder à l’entretien annuel. C’est l’occasion de réparer ou changer tout ce qui a cassé durant l’année [...]

2012: the year of the dragon

January 20, 2012

I do not have a crystal ball but it is nevertheless possible to sketch what can be expected from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments at CERN this year. Right now, the accelerator is stopped for the annual maintenance shutdown. This is the opportunity to fix all problems that occurred during the past year both [...]

Location, Location, Location

January 19, 2012

If I had to pick one thing that’s definitely better on my old experiment, ATLAS, than on my new experiment, CMS — and especially if I had to pick something I could write publicly without getting into trouble — it would be this: the ATLAS detector is across the street from the rest of CERN. [...]

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