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Jan/Feb 2014 I NTERNATIONAL J OURNAL OF H IGH -E NERGY P HYSICS CERNCOURIER WELCOME V OLUME 5 4 N UMBER 1 J ANUARY /F EBRUARY 2 0 1 4 CERN Courier – digital edition Welcome to the digital edition of the January/February 2014 issue of CERN Courier. This year sees the 60th anniversary of when a dozen European countries joined together to establish CERN. In this issue, the current director-general writes on how the organization has amply fulfilled the vision of its founders in providing for collaboration among European states in pure scientific research. Today, CERN welcomes scientists and engineers from around the world, many of whom are working towards the high-luminosity upgrade to the LHC – the laboratory’s flagship accelerator – and its experiments. Accelerator R&D is well underway, not only for the LHC but for other front-line future accelerators at CERN and elsewhere. To sign up to the new-issue alert, please visit: http://cerncourier.com/cws/sign-up. To subscribe to the magazine, the e-mail new-issue alert, please visit: http://cerncourier.com/cws/how-to-subscribe. Accelerator R&D advances ANNIVERSARY FACILITIES HOW IT ALL CERN celebrates Physics societies 60 years of facilitate input BEGAN EDITOR: CHRISTINE SUTTON, CERN science for peace to planning The Particle Physics DIGITAL EDITION CREATED BY JESSE KARJALAINEN/IOP PUBLISHING, UK p58 p19 Masterclasses p34 CERNCOURIER www. V OLUME 5 4 N UMBER 1 J AARYN U /F EBRUARY 2 0 1 4 CERN Courier January/February 2014 3 COMPLETE SOLUTIONS Contents Which do you want to engage? Covering current developments in high-energy physics and related fi elds worldwide CERN Courier is distributed to member-state governments, institutes and laboratories affi liated with CERN, and to their personnel. It is published monthly, except for CERNCOURIER January and August. The views expressed are not necessarily those of the CERN Magnet Power Beamline Electronic Precision Current management. Supply Systems Instrumentation Transducers Editor Christine Sutton V OLUME 5 4 N UMBER 1 J ANUARY /F EBRUARY 2 0 1 4 News editor Kate Kahle CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland E-mail [email protected] Fax +41 (0) 22 785 0247 5 N EWS Web cerncourier.com • CERN to admit Israel as fi rst new member state since 1999 Advisory board Luis Álvarez-Gaumé, James Gillies, Horst Wenninger • CERN’s 60th anniversary • IceCube fi nds evidence for Laboratory correspondents: high-energy extra-terrestrial neutrinos First negative-hydrogen- Argonne National Laboratory (US) Cosmas Zachos • Brookhaven National Laboratory (US) P Yamin ion beam accelerated at Linac4 ATLAS and CMS observe Cornell University (US) D G Cassel • DESY Laboratory (Germany) Till Mundzeck Higgs-boson decays to fermions How long can beauty and charm EMFCSC (Italy) Anna Cavallini 3 • Enrico Fermi Centre (Italy) Guido Piragino live together? • SCOAP open-access initiative gets going Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US) Katie Yurkewicz HiLumi LHC design study moves towards HL-LHC Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) Markus Buescher • • GSI Darmstadt (Germany) I Peter New charged charmonium-like states observed at BESIII IHEP, Beijing (China) Tongzhou Xu IHEP, Serpukhov (Russia) Yu Ryabov INFN (Italy) Romeo Bassoli 13 S CIENCEWATCH Jefferson Laboratory (US) Steven Corneliussen JINR Dubna (Russia) B Starchenko KEK National Laboratory (Japan) Nobukazu Toge 15 STROWATCH Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (US) Spencer Klein A Los Alamos National Laboratory (US) Rajan Gupta NCSL (US) Ken Kingery Nikhef (Netherlands) Robert Fleischer 17 A RCHIVE Novosibirsk Institute (Russia) S Eidelman Orsay Laboratory (France) Anne-Marie Lutz PSI Laboratory (Switzerland) P-R Kettle F EATURES Saclay Laboratory (France) Elisabeth Locci Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK) Julia Maddock 19 Global perspectives on major science facilities SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US) Farnaz Khadem TRIUMF Laboratory (Canada) Marcello Pavan Physics societies provide valuable input to the planning process. 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V OLUME 5 4 N UMBER 1 J AARYN U /F EBRUARY 2 0 1 4 CERN Courier January/February 2014 MAGNETS BEAM TRANSPORT News POWER CONVERTERS RF AMPLIFIERS I NTERNATIONAL CERN to admit Israel as fi rst new SIGMAPHI Magnets and the new member state since 1999 Following a resolution unanimously adopted SIGMAPHI Electronics team at the 169th session of the CERN Council on 12 December, CERN is set to admit Israel as the organization’s 21st member state. Israeli wish you a membership will be effective from the date on which Israel formally notifi es UNESCO that it has ratifi ed the CERN Convention. CERN was established under the auspices of UNESCO, and UNESCO remains the depository of the CERN Convention. Israeli has been an associate member of CERN HAPPY NEW YEAR since 2011. 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Today, Israel is involved with limited participation in CERN’s programme, Russia and Turkey, all of which have applied the ATLAS experiment at the LHC and the accompanied by limited benefi ts of for associate membership. Romania has the ALPHA and COMPASS experiments, as membership. All new applicants for full status of candidate for accession, having well as experiments at the ISOLDE facility. membership must pass through a period of applied for full membership before the new In addition, Israel contributes to the LHC at least two years as an associate member procedures came into effect.
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