CERN News, Nov 11, 2022

[PDF] Strangeness production in the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN SPS energy range

Y Balkova - EPJ Web of Conferences, 2022

NA61/SHINE is a multi-purpose fixed-target experiment located at the H2 beamline
of the CERN North Area. One of the main goals of the experiment is to study the
phase transition and search for the critical point of the strongly interacting matter …

Design and Benchmarking of Low Power, Low Noise and Rad-Hard Comparators for Hybrid Pixel Detector for the Large Hadron Collider Upgrade

S Emiliani - 2022

… to CERN detectors operates in a harsh environment, because of high levels of
radiation and high magnetic field. LHC detecting systems are constantly object of
upgrades to improve their performances in terms of speed, resolution and power …

[PDF] Reconditioning of the Leuven Isotope Separator as a test bench for radioactive ion beam development

W Wojtaczka, B Caerts, M Heines, P Mispelter, S Rothe…

… The source was built and tested at CERN, and the parameters used at the
ISOLDE OFFLINE … Particularly, systematic studies on the FEBIAD ion source
developed at CERN are planned … The CERN ISOLDE target unit was integrated to …

[PDF] A search for the $ K^+\to\mu^-\nu e^+ e^+ $ decay

NA62 collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.04818, 2022

… neutrino, has been performed using the dataset collected by the NA62
experiment at CERN in 2016–2018. An upper limit of 8.1 × 10−11 is … It is a
pleasure to express our appreciation to the staff of the CERN laboratory and the …

[PDF] Particle identification with the cluster counting technique for the IDEA drift chamber

C Caputo, G Chiarello, A Corvaglia, F Cuna, B D'Anzi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022

… A beam test has been performed during November 2021 at CERN on the H8 to
validate the simulations results, to define the limiting effects for a fully efficient cluster
counting and to count the number of electron clusters released by an ionizing track …

[PDF] Long-term LHC discovery reach for compressed Supersymmetry models using VBF processes

N Cardona, A Flórez, A Gurrola, W Johns, P Sheldon… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022

The identity of Dark Matter (DM) is one of the most active topics in particle physics
today. Supersymmetry (SUSY) is an extension of the standard model (SM) that could
describe the particle nature of DM in the form of the lightest neutralino in R-parity …

Evolution of detectors for particle physics

A Penzo - Radiation Effects and Defects in Solids, 2022

… With the construction and operation of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS),
commissioned in 1976, CERN acquired a machine that kept well up to its superlative
designation and became the workhorse of CERN’s particle physics program …

[PDF] Performance of the CMS High Granularity Calorimeter prototype to charged pion beams of 20$-$300 GeV/c

C Collaborations - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.04740, 2022

… beams at CERN, Fermilab, and DESY. The first prototype silicon modules
equipped with the SKIROC2 ASIC were tested in beam test experiments at Fermilab
and CERN in 2016 using electron beams [4]. In the 2018 beam test experiments at …

[PDF] Lessons Learned from the Module Production for the First CMS Silicon Tracker

A Honma - Instruments, 2022

… All of these circuits were delivered to CERN, where they were visually inspected
and re-tested electrically, and then the CERN gantry was … Then, half of these
hybrids were sent to a collaborating institute and half were kept at CERN for the wire …

[PDF] Machine learning application to space particle discrimination from multiple-cell upsets in a memory device

A Coronetti, LM Luza, S Barik, A Bosser, RG Alia… - RADECS 2022-European …, 2022

… Andrea Coronetti (andrea.coronetti@cern.ch) is with CERN, CH-1211 Geneva,
Switzerland … Sanaa Barik is with CERN, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland and with
LIRMM, Univ Montpellier, … Rubén Garcıa Alıa is with CERN, CH-1211 Geneva …

[HTML] Quarks: What are they?| Space

K Cooper

… Read more about quarks with these resources from CERN (opens in new tab). Learn
more about the discovery of quarks with CERN (opens in new tab) and explore the
quarks and gluons in more detail with the Department of Energy (opens in new tab). …

[HTML] Quarks: What are they?

K Cooper

If we could zoom in on an atom in your body, we would see that it consists of
electrons swarming in orbits around a nucleus of protons and neutrons. And if we
could zoom in on one of those protons or neutrons, we'd find that they themselves …

On-Chip Processing for Pixel Imagers in a 28nm technology for HEP application

J Dhaliwal - 2022

This thesis explores a novel approach to on-chip data processing and readout in
pixel imagers based on embedded processors for High Energy Physics applications.
This subject represents a new field of development posing new challenges both at …

[PDF] Centrality dependence of multistrangeness production in high-energy heavy-ion collisions

GH Arakelyan, C Merino, YM Shabelski - EPJ Web of Conferences, 2022

… multistrange to strange antihyperon production in nucleus-nucleus collisions with
different centralities, at CERN-SPS and RHIC energies. … [39–41], at the CERN LHC.
The value of the strangeness suppression parameter λs needed for a correct …

[PDF] Accuracy of prostate cancer screening recommendations for high‐risk populations on YouTube and TikTok

M Abramson, N Feiertag, D Javidi, M Babar, S Loeb… - BJUI Compass, 2022

… DISCERN is scored on a 5-point scale, whereas PEMAT is a set of binary
questions that results in a final percentage as a score. The total DISCERN score,
PEMAT understandability percentage and PEMAT actionability percentage for each …

[HTML] Capturing Secchi disk depth by using Sentinel-2 MSI imagery in Jiaozhou Bay, China from 2017 to 2021

L Yang, D Yu, H Yao, H Gao, Y Zhou, Y Gai, X Liu… - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2022

Water clarity is a key parameter for assessing changes of aquatic environment.
Coastal waters are complex and variable, remote sensing of water clarity for it is
often limited by low spatial resolution. The Sentinel-2 Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI) …

[PDF] Future ALICE upgrades for Run 4 and Beyond

HS Scheid - arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.04802, 2022

… Sebastian Scheid for the ALICE Collaboration s.scheid@cern.ch … A prototype
equipped with HG layers in the absorber stack was tested at the CERN SPS in 2021
with beams consisting of different particles at energies of 20/40/60/80 GeV. The …

Control infrastructure monitoring system at the NSRL facility cluster

T Qin, C Li, GF Liu - Journal of Instrumentation, 2022

… The CERN accelerator control system has just under 7,000 hosts, including Linux
CentOS CERN 7 computers and specific Ethernet devices (BMCs, PLCs, etc.).
CERN has built the Control Open Source Monitoring System (COSMOS) to monitor …

[HTML] YEASTRACT+: a portal for the exploitation of global transcription regulation and metabolic model data in yeast biotechnology and pathogenesis

MC Teixeira, R Viana, M Palma, J Oliveira, M Galocha… - Nucleic Acids Research, 2022

… More recently, Candida auris arose as a pathogen of concern, being associated
with the first cases of candidiasis outbreaks in hospital environments, and displaying
unusual resistance to the currently available antifungal armamentarium (10). …

[PDF] Updated constraints on sterile neutrino mixing in the OPERA experiment using a new $\nu_e $ identification method

N Agafonova, A Alexandrov, A Anokhina, S Aoki… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022

… Acknowledgment We warmly thank CERN for the successful operation of the
CNGS facility and INFN for the continuous support given by hosting the experiment
in its LNGS laboratory. Funding is gratefully acknowledged from national agencies …

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