New Experiment to Gain Unparalleled Insight Into Antimatter Together in the Same Direction

Number 25-26 | 17-24 June 2013 More articles available at: http://bulletin.cern.ch

NEW EXPERIMENT TO GAIN UNPARALLELED INSIGHT INTO ANTIMATTER TOGETHER IN THE SAME DIRECTION

It’s sometimes difficult to explain the nature of global collaboration in particle physics: how fierce competition coexists with collaboration, and how, whatever our differences, we all pull in the same direction. But this week gave us two strong examples.

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New experiment to gain unparalleled insight into antimatter 1 Together in the same direction 2 From cern to space and back 3 CERN’s AD Hall: the new home of the BASE double Penning trap set-up. Flamenco guitarist Paco Peña tours cern 3 At last week’s Research Board meeting, the Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) Aida: concerted calorimeter development 4 was approved for installation at CERN. The experiment will be diving into the search for matter- Pension fund award 5 antimatter asymmetry, as it aims to take ultra-high precision measurements of the antiproton Finally, a crèche at cern! 5 magnetic moment. Content, clarity and charisma 6 Two new “cernland expert” laureates 7 Prison or “prism”? Your data in custody 8 The BASE collaboration will be setting up shop of the BASE collaboration. “We also recently in the AD Hall this September with its first demonstrated the first application of the Computer Security 8 CERN-based experimental set-up. Using the double Penning trap technique with a single Official news 9 novel double-Penning trap set-up developed proton. This success means we are now ready Seminars 9 at the University of Mainz, GSI Darmstadt and to use the technique to measure the proton Take note 10 the Max Plank Institute for Nuclear Physics magnetic moment with ultra-high precision Training & Development 12 (Germany), the BASE team will be able to and to apply the technique to the antiproton.” Technical training 13 measure the antiproton magnetic moment with hitherto unreachable part-per-billion But how does this new trap work? First, let’s look precision. at how the antiproton magnetic moment is derived. A direct measurement of the moment “We constructed the first double-Penning requires two different parameters: the Larmor trap at our companion facility in Germany, and frequency, which characterises the precession made the first ever direct observations of single of the spin of a particle, and the cyclotron spin flips of a single proton,” explains Stefan frequency, which describes a charged particle’s Published by: Ulmer from RIKEN, Japan, the spokesperson behaviour under a magnetic field. CERN-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland Tel. + 41 22 767 35 86 Printed by: CERN Printshop © 2013 CERN - ISSN: Printed version: 2077-950X Electronic version: 2077-9518 (Continued on page 2) A word from the DG FROM CERN TO SPACE AND BACK TOGETHER IN THE SAME DIRECTION (Continued from page 1)

Firstly, on Wednesday, the Technical Design Of course, the TDR is just a step, albeit an literally be in two places at once, but it serves Report (TDR) for the International Linear important one, on the road to this possible as a reminder of how particle physics deals At the end of May, 40 years after he worked as a fellow on the Intersecting Storage Rings Collider (ILC) was officially delivered to future machine. What it means is that the ILC with its data analysis. The CERN data centre (ISR), former astronaut Ernst Messerschmid gave a colloquium at CERN. His experience in the the International Committee for Future is ready to be built, if the physics motivation is the hub of the Worldwide LHC Computing Laboratory’s international environment was an important factor in the process that led to his Accelerators, ICFA, the global body that is there along with the political will. Thanks Grid (WLCG), whereby over 150 computer becoming one of the first Germans in space. oversees the development of major projects to the great performance of the LHC, there is centres around the world have pooled their in particle physics. now a strong physics case. And in Japan, there resources for the common good. WLCG is have been encouraging noises from both the physical embodiment, in disk servers, Ernst Messerschmid first arrived at CERN as a series, he says, to take full advantage of the After his space flight, Ernst moved to the This event marks the culmination of years scientific and political circles about hosting optical fibres and CPUs, of the guiding spirit summer student in 1970, just as preparations “weightless” conditions. They covered a range University of Stuttgart and went on to of effort through close global collaboration the ILC. So, for now, we will have to wait and of particle physics. And the ILC TDR is evidence were being made for the start-up of the ISR, of topics in physical, engineering and life become head of the European Astronaut between labs around the world. It has seen see. Whatever the case, it will be well into the in black and white that great things can be and he soon returned as a fellow. His diploma science disciplines. It was the experiments – Centre in Cologne from 2000 to 2004. There tough collective decisions being taken next decade before an ILC could start to take achieved when the people of the world work thesis and PhD thesis were both based on his rather than the launch and the distance from he was involved in training Christer Fuglesang, between competing technologies, with data. And wherever such a machine might be together. work at the ISR. All seemed set for a career in the Earth – that proved the most stressful. another CERN fellow who became an astronaut all participating labs lining up behind the built, it is certain that it will be built through accelerator physics, but in 1977, while deciding “There were 100 or so professors and some and has since flown twice on board a space chosen option. And on Wednesday this the same kind of global partnership that led Rolf Heuer on his future, Ernst spotted an advert in the 200 students relying on the data we were shuttle to the International Space Station. week, it saw the linear collider community to the delivery of the TDR this week. newspaper Die Zeit: “Astronauts wanted”. collecting,” Ernst explains. “We worked 15 to choosing CERN as one of the three venues “There were five boxes that needed to be 18 hours a day. There was not much time to Ernst continues to teach astronautics and, as for the official handover, despite the fact This week’s other milestone came on ticked,” he recalls. “Scientific training, good look out of the window! in the colloquium at CERN, to spread the word that CERN was not one of the original core Thursday, when the extension of CERN’s data health, psychological stability, language about the value of space flights for knowledge labs developing ILC technology. What better centre was inaugurated at the Wigner Centre skills and experience in an international and innovation. “We fly on a mission,” he says, example could you wish for to illustrate the in Budapest. Not only does this show that a environment. Thanks to my time at CERN I was “and afterwards, as professors, we become fact that particle physics is one global family? major computer centre for particle physics can able to tick them all.” ‘missionaries’ - ambassadors for science and innovation.” Out of some 7,000 applicants in ESA’s first astronaut selection campaign, he was To watch Ernst Messerschmid’s colloquium at among five in Germany of whom three were CERN go to http://cern.ch/go/sj9k later chosen for training and for spaceflight missions. In 1978 he went to work at the Christine Sutton German Aerospace Test and Research Institute NEW EXPERIMENT TO GAIN for Aviation and Space Flight (DFVLR). He finally went into space in 1985, as a payload specialist on the first German Spacelab mission, D1, UNPARALLELED INSIGHT INTO on board the space shuttle Challenger.

ANTIMATTER (Continued from page 1) Ernst and his colleagues performed more than 70 experiments, which were the first Ernst Messerschmid in the Spacelab module. Credit: DLR (CC-BY 3.0).

A strong, homogenous magnet is therefore central to any Penning trap. “Spin flips are observed by coupling the magnetic moment of the particle to the measurable axial frequency, using a magnetic inhomogeneity,” explains Stefan. “As the magnetic moment of the FLAMENCO GUITARIST antiproton is so small, a field inhomogeneity of some 300,000 T/m2 is required. However, the intense magnetic field reduces the precision of PACO PEÑA TOURS CERN Layout of the new BASE collaboration set-up any frequency measurements.” to be installed in the AD Hall. In addition to these two traps, the experimental The solution? Divide and conquer. BASE’s This September, the BASE team will begin set-up will have two further traps. The monitor CERN continues to attract a wide variety of visitors. On 5 June, it was the turn of renowned double Penning trap separates the installing its experiment in the AD Hall. By trap will check for any variance in the magnetic flamenco guitarist Paco Peña. With a broad interest in science, Peña was here to celebrate his measurements of the Larmor and the cyclotron November, the team plans to be taking new field caused by external sources, allowing the th frequency from the spin state analysis. Two measurements of the proton magnetic 60 birthday, accompanied by friends David Ashton and Chrissie Twigg, and his wife Karin. BASE team to make instant adjustments to the traps are used for the measurements: the moment using an offline source. “It’s an core traps while measurements are under way. analysis trap, which will check the spin of the exciting time not only for our collaboration, but also for antimatter physics,” concludes particle, and the precision trap, which will Paco Peña’s most famous compositions pictures. The group asked numerous The final trap, the reservoir trap, does exactly Stefan. “As our measurements of antimatter flip the spin of the particle while measuring what it says on the tin. This trap will store include Misa Flamenca, a Flamenco Mass, questions during their visit. It is not always the cyclotron frequency. In the precision trap, properties grow ever more precise, so too does and Requiem for the Earth. In 1997, he was easy to impress world travellers, but the antiprotons for months on end, allowing the our understanding of the nature of all matter.” the magnetic field is about 100,000 times BASE collaboration to continue operating named Oficial de la Cruz de la Orden del ATLAS detector did the trick. Mérito Civil by King Juan Carlos of Spain. more homogeneous than in the analysis even without beam. “As BASE is such a sensitive one. Thus, this separation dramatically experiment, it may be affected by magnetic improves the accuracy of the frequency Katarina Anthony “This is truly amazing!” said Peña after seeing field fluctuations from the AD,” says Stefan. “If the ATLAS detector. His wife confessed measurements and increases the precision of that is the case, the reservoir trap will allow us that she had never seen him take so many Pauline Gagnon Paco Peña during his visit to ATLAS. the magnetic moment. to work when the accelerator is offline.”

2 17 / 24-06-2013 17 / 24-06-2013 3 AIDA: CONCERTED CALORIMETER PENSION FUND AWARD DEVELOPMENT The CERN Pension Fund won the Investments & Pensions Europe (IPE) 2013 Gold Award in the Medium Real-Estate Investor category. IPE is the leading European publication on the AIDA – the EU-funded project bringing together more than 80 institutes worldwide – aims at subject of pensions. The awards were judged by a panel of 22 members, which included leading developing new detector solutions for future accelerators. Among the highlights reported at European investment consultants and pension fund executives. AIDA’s recent annual meeting in Frascati was the completion of an impressive calorimeter test beam programme, conducted by the CALICE collaboration over the past two years at CERN’s The award recognised the “fresh thinking” While the awards are given by a European behind the CERN Pension Fund’s updated real- institution, they have a worldwide scope, PS and SPS beam lines. estate strategy, which has brought it “focus” on and winners in other categories included the “high-quality assets and diversification.” The pension plans of the government of Canada, jury also noted the Fund’s “streamlined and the Ontario Healthcare System, and the cost-efficient” management, and noted that Pennsylvania School System. CERN is “running a tight ship”. Antonella Del Rosso

Théodore Economou (left), the CERN Pension Fund’s Chief Executive Officer, receives the IPE 2013 Gold Award.

FINALLY, A CRÈCHE AT CERN!

The CALICE tungsten calorimeter prototype under test at CERN. This cubic-metre hadron calorimeter prototype has almost 500,000 After many years of discussion, the CERN Staff Association’s first crèche will open its doors in individually read-out electronics channels – more than all the calorimeters of ATLAS and CMS put together. September to welcome up to 20 babies and toddlers.

The CERN Staff Association’s Nursery School, “In total, we will have places for 160 children,” which will soon turn 50, is pleased to announce said Philippe Trilhe, a staff delegate and Calorimeter development in AIDA is mainly The AIDA project addresses two main topics: based read-out technologies have been tested the establishment of CERN’s first crèche. This President of the Nursery School Steering motivated by experiments at possible how to tackle the integration challenge that in steel and tungsten absorber structures over project, which has come to fruition over the Committee. “To guarantee that the new future electron-positron colliders, namely comes with the enormous channel density, a wide range of beam energies, from 2 to 350 past academic year with the support of the facility is run to a high standard, we are ILC or CLIC. The physics requirements of and the validation of hadronic shower and GeV. Some of the very detailed results have CERN Management, meets an established planning to hire four new members of staff, such future machines demand extremely detector simulations based on the Geant4 already been presented at conferences, and and growing need among the Laboratory’s taking our team to a total of 39 employees.” high-performance calorimetry. This is best tools with test beam data. It supports, for were eagerly absorbed by the Geant4 model personnel and users. Offering a room for preparing baby formula, achieved using a finely segmented system example, the development of a family of highly builders to test and refine their predictions to a breastfeeding corner and all the equipment that reconstructs events using the so-called integrated mixed-circuit ASICs*, with front- match the needs of almost any high-energy As a modular construction, the Nursery needed to ensure the well-being of even the particle-flow approach, which allows precise ends adapted to the technologies above but experiment. The test-beam campaigns - School’s new second floor was assembled youngest infants, CERN’s new crèche will be jet energy reconstruction. This technique with common back-ends and interfaces. These which included a successful test of the power above the existing canteen in a matter of days. open from Mondays to Fridays, from 8.00 a.m. thrives with an optimal combination of “systems on chip” include signal processing, cycling - also provided important technical Its 11 modules are ultra-modern – they’re even to 6.00 p.m. Like the kindergarten and the pre- tracking and calorimeter information and self-triggering, digitisation and read-out feedback and demonstrated how the new equipped with underfloor heating. “Thanks to school, its holiday closures will follow Geneva’s has already been successfully applied in sequencing. Thanks to power cycling, they technologies perform when larger structures this extension, we will be able to accept around academic calendar. the CMS detector. Reconstructing each can be integrated into the detector without are implemented (see photo). twenty babies at the start of the academic particle individually requires very fine extra cooling. AIDA also offers a versatile year,” said Sigrid Knoops, a staff delegate cell granularity in three dimensions and absorber structure made of tungsten. This very Felix Sefkow and member of the Nursery School Steering The crèche still has some places available! has spurred the development of novel dense material is favoured for ultra-compact Committee. “We can admit them as soon as the For more information, click here, email staff. detection technologies, such as silicon electromagnetic calorimeter designs and mother’s maternity leave ends and they will [email protected] or call (+41 22 76) 73604 photo-multipliers (SiPMs) mounted on small is currently being considered for a hadronic be able to remain at the crèche until they are scintillator tiles or strips, gaseous detectors calorimeter at CLIC. two years old. Then from two to four years of Anaïs Schaeffer (micro-mesh or resistive plate chambers) with age, the children will go to the kindergarten, two-dimensional readout segmentation, and With this building-block approach, various and finally, at the age of four, they will enrol in large-area silicon pad arrays. combinations of gaseous or scintillator-SiPM- A delicate operation: the installation of 11 modules above the CERN’s pre-school, where they will stay until *ASIC: Application Specific Integrated Circuits. Nursery’s School canteen. Image: Sigrid Knoops. the age of six.”

4 17 / 24-06-2013 17 / 24-06-2013 5 CONTENT, CLARITY AND CHARISMA TWO NEW “CERNLAND EXPERT” LAUREATES The winning recipe of FameLab is all in the three Cs that are written on the evaluation chart of the judges. If you are a young researcher and dream of communicating your science to the public in a TV-like setting, challenge yourself with the FameLab golden rules and give an amazing three- Two classes (46 ten-year-old pupils) from the Primary School of Binago (Como, Italy) minute speech at the next FameLab competition in any of the participating countries. participated in the project of the master’s thesis by Valentina Rigamonti, a student from the University of Milan. The project was about CERNland, CERN’s website for kids. “CERNland Expert” diplomas and DVDs of the website were the must-have prizes of this original competition. Last week, the Cheltenham Science Festival “What are you going to do, Fergus, after Valentina tells us more about her work. hosted the 2013 FameLab final. Participants winning the 2013 edition of FameLab from 19 countries – the winners of the national International?” – asked Quentin Cooper, the heats – gave amazing speeches in front of a presenter of BBC Radio 4’s weekly show “The large live audience and an even greater online Material World”, who was the compere at the My thesis project, carried out in collaboration In this way, I was able to gather 87 colourful The two proud winners received a “CERNland audience following the webcast. And the final. “I will need to finish my PhD”, replied the with CERN’s Communication group, drawings! Some were more imaginative and Expert” diploma especially designed for winner was… Fergus McAuliffe from Ireland! winner. That’s the beauty of FameLab… was designed to study the impact of others more realistic. Each of them portrays them. All the children received a copy of the communicating science to children using a very interesting image of the scientist. Very CERNland DVD with the new navigation Fergus’ research focuses on the use of willow CERNland educational games. importantly, while playing with CERNland, system and even a new game as a gift! trees for sustainable wastewater treatment. Find your national FameLab competition on the children showed their enthusiasm for the His fellow contestants were all university and famelab.org. Over the course of three meetings the games as well as giving some constructive I would like to thank all of them for participating PhD students involved in a variety of scientific enthusiastic pupils had the opportunity to feedback, which has already been used by in my project with such great enthusiasm and fields, from medicine to particle physics CERN participated as a heat venue for FameLab play with CERNland and participate in various the CERNland team to improve the website commitment. and microbiology. Besides their degrees, Switzerland in 2012 and 2013. If you wish activities to learn first-hand what a scientist is navigation. these young scientists had another thing in to receive more information on next year’s and how science works. Valentina Rigamonti common: their passion for communicating competition in Switzerland, write to info@ In order to thank the children and the school, a science. famelab.ch. At the first meeting, kids drew a scientist, alone or small competition was organised: the children in his/her working environment. After that, the were able to see all the drawings of their The CERN Communication Group joins Valentina Since its birth in 2005, FameLab has grown Antonella Del Rosso children were invited to play with CERNland and contemporaries and voted for the two best Rigamonti in thanking the pupils and the school into one of the world’s leading science to follow a short presentation about CERN and drawings (each class was only able to vote for for their collaboration in the project. communication competitions and more than its experiments. The children were subsequently a drawing done by another class). The winners 5000 young scientists and engineers have asked to do a second drawing and to give of the “CERNland drawing competition” are: explanations and details about their work. Aminta Invitto (4°A) and Zoe Uboldi (4°B). already taken part. This year’s international Fergus McAuliffe during the 2013 FameLab final. final brought together the winners from Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech What’s unique about FameLab is the fact that Republic, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Hong content is indeed an important aspect of the Kong, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, performance. At the end of their presentation, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland and contestants are often questioned about the the UK. According to the FameLab rules, scientific relevance of their talk and about each contestant had three minutes to their personal contribution to the research present a science, technology, mathematics involved. In other words, FameLab is not or engineering-based talk using only the yet another talent show. Its magic formula props he or she could carry onto the stage: truly helps actual scientists reveal their PowerPoint presentations are not permitted. communication skills. The result is an amazing The contestants were judged by a panel of collection of speeches that are inspiring, three judges who evaluated the content, educational and accurate despite their brevity. clarity and charisma of their talks.

Winners of the “CERNland drawing competition”: Zoe Uboldi (left) and Aminta Invitto.

6 17 / 24-06-2013 17 / 24-06-2013 7 Computer Security Official news

Next Indefinite Contract review exercise PRISON OR “PRISM”? Dear Colleagues, In addition, general information sessions on the procedure will be organised for candidates on the following dates: We are pleased to inform you that the 2013 YOUR DATA IN CUSTODY LD2IC exercise (selection process for the DATE TIME conversion of limited-duration contracts to indefinite contracts) was officially launched TUESDAY 23 July 14 : 00 - 15 : 00 last week. TUESDAY 13 August 14 : 00 - 15 : 00 “Send your data into the cloud and make it... vaporize” was the title of one of our Bulletin TUESDAY 15 August 14 : 00 - 15 : 00 The vacancy notices for posts opened with a articles in 2011. We were not precise enough. We should have entitled it “Send your data into TUESDAY 20 August 14 : 00 - 15 : 00 the cloud and make it… available to a national security agency”. view to the award of indefinite contracts will be published on 9 August 2013 for a period of THURSDAY 29 August 14 : 00 - 15 : 00 four weeks (until 8 September 2013). TUESDAY 3 September (if necessary) 14 : 00 - 15 : 00 What has long been feared has just been peer applications that export the contents of your Google and Facebook profile… For a bit confirmed by whistle blower Edward certain local folders onto the Internet. “Don’t let more privacy here, log out whenever you don’t The CERN Contract Review Boards (candidate Snowden: with ties into Microsoft, Google, your mail leak”, especially when automatically need to be logged in and consider installing Information on the location of these sessions will be provided in due course on the CERN interviews) will be held between the end of Facebook, Apple, Skype, AOL and Yahoo, the forwarding e-mails from your CERN address to something like the “Ghostery” plug-in in your announcements page. September and mid-November. NSA (U.S. National Security Agency) “Prism” an external mail provider like Hotmail or Gmail. browser. surveillance programme has been monitoring HR Department The LD to IC procedure, Frequently Asked e-mails, chats, videos, photos, stored or Instead, remember that CERN provides similar For further information, please contact the Questions and a calendar for the exercise are transmitted data and video conferences services too (admittedly, not always with the Computer Security Team now available in the Admin e-guide. primarily made by foreigners using those same level of convenience, but therefore much ([email protected]) services. So our data is trapped there now… better controlled). Your CERN mailbox is also or check our website. and analysed. available from the Internet, as are your files (cern.ch/computer.security) stored on DFS or AFS. CERN GO and Sharepoint But it is not only trapped with the NSA. If you’ve services provide URL-shortening tools and synchronized your files, music and photos with tools to create questionnaires, respectively. Apple’s iCloud, Microsoft’s SkyDrive, or with Remote log-in is possible through the LXPLUS * Microsoft, the new owner of Skype, was recently Dropbox; received phone calls or messages cluster or the CERN Windows terminal service. caught when users “sending HTTPS URLs over via Skype*; managed your e-mails with Gmail So why not use a service you can trust and the instant messaging service, those URLs Seminars or Hotmail; or installed third-party apps on which complies with CERN’s rules(such as the receive an unannounced visit from Microsoft your smart phone; be assured that your data CERN Security Baselines and the upcoming HQ in Redmond”. Microsoft claimed that this is has already been analysed. This is the primary CERN Data Protection Policy)? to filter out spam and phishing websites, but this business model of Google, Facebook or argument has not convinced security experts. Dropbox: they take apart your private data in Finally, be aware that browsing the Internet order to profile you and your interests, identify is not an anonymous activity. Depending on Computer Security Team Monday 24 June Wednesday 26 June Wednesday 03 July your consumer preferences, and strip your which browser you use, it already exposes digital being into a statistical pattern of zeros lots of information: the local language, time TBA Random models of inflation Welcome Presentation Introduction + from 14:00 to 15:00 and ones. Scientia potentia est (“knowledge is zone, screen size, installed plugins, available by Charles M. 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8 17 / 24-06-2013 17 / 24-06-2013 9 Take note

ICAN SYMPOSIUM | CAN THE will be able to visit during the Open Days this …and for those who already do a lot of SAFETY ALERT: ELECTRICAL During LS1, from 3 June to 3 August 2013, the leading organisations worldwide in both September, with stands hosted by several of exercise, think of your neurones: EN-EL Electrical Engineering Group will be private and public sectors, with extensive FUTURE OF ACCELERATORS BE CERN’s departments and groups (GS, HSE, etc.). INSULATION DEFECT ON SAFETY carrying out maintenance and consolidation experience in Africa, Asia and Europe, in Physical activity is good for your brain! work on CERN’s 400 kV and 66 kV substations. addition to the Americas. He holds an M.A. FIBERS? | 27-28 JUNE It has been shown that physical activity has HELMETS and a B.A.B.Sc. from the University of Cape positive effects on mental health and cognitive On 3 June 2013, CERN’s power supply will be Town, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Birkbeck The International Coherent Amplification function through: Contrarily to the information provided transferred with no interruption to the Swiss College, London University. Network (ICAN) will be holding a symposium until 31 May 2013, some “Euro Protection” 130 kV network. The power available will on new fiber-based accelerator concepts at • the secretion of endorphins, which have an safety helmets do not respect any of the technically be limited to 50 MW, a threshold Everyone working on the CERN site is which is compatible with the current level of CERN, from 27 to 28 June 2013. exhilarating, relaxing and analgesic effect, requirements for electrical insulation.. welcome! • the combination of serotonin and consumption given that the warming up of the

dopamine, which improves the balance of LHC’s cryogenic installations is now complete. Concluding its EU-supported feasibility This alert concerns the safety helmets This session will be run in English; a French your mood, study, the ICAN Consortium reported on a identified under the following SCEM numbers: session is planned for the autumn. • an increase in protein concentration, which During this critical two-month period, CERN’s revolutionary laser architecture that could improves the malleability of the brain, with electricity consumption will be closely for the first time accelerate particles to very Image: Christoph Balle. • 50.43.30.050.4 white positive effects for certain illnesses, such as monitored by operators in the CERN Control high energy, at high repetition rate with good • 50.43.30.060.2 yellow Alzheimer’s disease, Centre (CCC) and must be kept below 50 wall-plug efficiency. To highlight this new The catalogue of training courses itself will • 50.43.30.070.0 blue • from a psychological point of view: MW. To avoid any risk of overloading or load- possibility - and illustrating the vitality and gradually be supplemented. For example, over the coming year, sessions on topics such improved confidence and self-esteem. shedding, the Electrical Engineering Group leadership of European science, the École This amounts up to several hundreds of are asking all users to limit their consumption Polytechnique (France), the Optoelectronics as “Confined Spaces”, “Working at Height” or The list of the benefits of physical activity helmets on the CERN site. during this period. Research Centre (UK), the University of Jena “Checking Personal Protective Equipment” will is long, and keeps getting longer as more (Germany) and CERN are organising an ICAN be introduced. Please note that, while most of research is carried out… [see the article in People who need to wear an electrically Thank you for your cooperation, symposium where details of this novel laser the training courses are given in French and/or English, courses in other languages including CHIS Bull 37]. insulated safety helmet for their activities, architecture will be presented. The ICAN must from now on acquire a duly insulated EN-EL Electrical Engineering Group symposium will be held at CERN from 27 to Italian, Spanish The recipe for success? item to be found on the CERN store under the 28 June in the presence of colleagues from following SCEM numbers: institutes and industry to discuss the status of HSE Unit Every step counts! And it’s probably easier than the research and prepare the groundwork for a 30-minute workout at the gym. Recording • 50.43.30.210.6: Petzl Vertex ST Helmet a HORIZON 2020 proposal. the number of steps you take can become an (without vent) DIVERSITY IN ACTION | incentive to move more and it gives you a good • 50.43.30.300.1: IDRA Helmet with a visor INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP | 4 JULY MOVE! EAT BETTER: TRY OUT A idea of whether you’re doing enough exercise for electrical work to stay fit, or not... CERN Medical Service Come and take part in an interactive workshop PEDOMETER! As for the people who do not need to wear CERN’S TRAINING CENTRE IS an electrically insulated helmet for their organised by the CERN Diversity Programme GETTING BIGGER Looking for your next challenge after a activities, they can continue working with the designed to creatively explore the meaning of successful leg in the CERN relay race? Want to aforementioned helmets. diversity and share your experience of working In response to a joint request from the get started on a new fitness regime? Hesitating ENTRANCE C - MEYRIN SITE: with differences at CERN. HSE Unit and the GS-FB Group and to to take the plunge or just a bit curious? For your information, please take note of the NEW ACCESS CONDITIONS maximum use limit of each helmet: accommodate the increase in the number Thursday 4 July 2013 – 1.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m. of training courses on offer at CERN (due in Entrance C on the Meyrin site, which drivers • “Euro Protection” Safety Helmets (SCEM Pump Hall - Building 216-R-401 no small part to LS1), the Prévessin training of motorised vehicles can use Mondays to number: 50.43.30.050.4/50.43.30.060.2/5 centre is currently being extended. Fridays from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and from 5 0.43.30.070.0): 5 years “Diversity in Action” is an interactive half-day p.m. to 7 p.m., has been altered to include a • Petzl Vertex ST Helmets (without vent) workshop designed to creatively explore (SCEM number: 50.43.30.210): 10 years the meaning and importance of diversity Notable features of the extension include two turnstile to allow cyclists and pedestrians to • IDRA Helemts (SCEM number: at CERN, in support of the Organization’s new teaching rooms and, most importantly, use their access card to get in and out of the 50.43.30.300.1): 4 years value of “appreciating differences, fostering three containers that will accurately replicate site from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. equality and promoting collaboration”. Using the conditions encountered in the LHC tunnel HSE Unit participative multi-media methods, this and will be used for part of the “Self-Rescue A new type of entrance gate fitted with a innovative workshop will provide participants Masks” training course to simulate various number plate reader similar to that installed at with insights into diversity, help them to accident scenarios such as a helium leak. the entrance to the Prévessin site should, once develop greater sensitivity to differences, fully tested, allow drivers of motorised vehicles explore ways to recognise and overcome While this new “tunnel” is expected to be to access the site. BETWEEN 3 JUNE AND 3 AUGUST, biases and thereby strengthen our tradition operational by the summer, the centre’s new LIMIT YOUR ELECTRICITY of inclusiveness at CERN. For the time being, the conditions of use premises for the reconditioning of respiratory Alan Richter, Ph. D., is the president of QED of Entrance C remain unchanged. Further CONSUMPTION equipment used in the “Self-Rescue Masks” Consulting, a 25-year-old company based in information on the entry into force of new course are already operational. The training CERN is normally supplied by the French 400 New York. He has consulted to organisations centre, which has also already been offering arrangements will be issued in due course. kV RTE/EDF network and has a reduced-power for many years in multiple capacities, primarily fire extinguisher training for a year, will be one backup supply from the Swiss 130 kV ALPIQ/ in the areas of leadership, values, culture and of the attractions that members of the public GS Department SIG network. change. He has worked closely with many

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NEW COURSE: “LYNC – CLICK TO AFETY TRAINING: PLACES Recyclage - Habilitation électrique If you would like more information on a course, or for any other inquiry/suggestions, personnel électricien basse tension please contact [email protected]. CALL AND COLLABORATE WITH AVAILABLE IN JUNE 2013 (refresher course for habilitation électrique Eva Stern and Elise Romero, Technical Training Administration (Tel: 74924) for electricians in low voltage) OTHERS” 06-JUN-13 (afternoon) to 07-JUN-13 (full day), There are places available in the forthcoming 9.00 – 17.30, in English Safety courses. For updates and registrations, The presentation will cover the main features please refer to the Safety Training Catalogue. Recyclage - Habilitation électrique personnel électricien basse et haute of Lync: initiating and receiving phone calls tensions (refresher course for habilitation June 2013 (alphabetical order) from Lync, chatting (Instant Message), électrique for electricians in low and high how to stay connected as you were in your voltage) First Aiders - Basic Course 17-JUN-13 to 18-JUN-13, 9.00 – 17.30, in French office, creating and participating in online 13-JUN-13, 8.15 – 17.30, in English meetings, sharing presentations/desktops Recyclage - Habilitation électrique with other people, using the voice mailbox First Aiders - Refresher Course personnel non électricien tension 06-JUN-13, 8.15 – 12.30, in French on Exchange, integration with Outlook, CERN (refresher course for habilitation électrique 06-JUN-13, 13.15 – 17.30, in French for non electricians) Phone book, phone system etc. 14-JUN-13, 9.00 – 17.30, in English Habilitation ATEX niveau 1 (Habilitation 19-JUN-13, 9.00 – 17.30, in French General information about Lync can be found ATEX level 1) on http://cern.ch/lync 28-JUN-13, 9.00 – 17.30, in French Refresher course Self-Rescue Mask Training Softphone features of Lync are detailed on 03-JUN-13, 8.30 – 10.00, in French http://cern.ch/softphone Habilitation électrique personnel 03-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.00, in English électricien basse et haute tensions 10-JUN-13, 8.30 – 10.00, in French (habilitation électrique for electricians in 10-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.h00, in English Please register through the Training Catalogue. low and high voltage) 17-JUN-13, 8.30 – 10.00, in French 10-JUN-13 to 13-JUN-13, 9.00 – 17.30, in 17-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.00, in English Lync service and Technical Training English 24-JUN-13, 8.30 – 10.00, in French 24-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.00, in English Habilitation électrique personnel non électricien (habilitation électrique for non Risks associated with operations in electricians) confined spaces SUMMER FRENCH COURSES 03-JUN-13 (afternoon) to 04-JUN-13 (full day), 04-JUN-13, 9.00 – 17.30, in French 9.00 – 17.30, in English FOR BEGINNERS (15 JULY TO 3 Self Rescue Mask Training Laser Experts 04-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.00, in French SEPTEMBER 2013) 03-JUN-13 to 04-JUN-13, 9.00 – 17.30, in 06-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.00, in English English 13-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.00, in English We are now offering a French course for 18-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.00, in French beginners. Laser Users 20-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.00, in English 28-JUN-13, 9.00 – 12.30, in English 25-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.00, in French If you are interested in following this course, 27-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.00, in English please enrol through this link or contact Noise - Understanding the risks 14-JUN-13, 10.00 – 12.30, in French Kerstin Fuhrmeister: Tel. 70896. Sensibilisation aux gestes et postures de travail (gestures and postures at work) Radiological Protection - Controlled 10-JUN-13, 9.00 – 17.30, in French Radiation Area - Course A for CERN employees and CERN associates Use of fire extinguisher – live exercises SUMMER ORAL EXPRESSION 06-JUN-13, 8.30 – 17.00, in French 05-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.30, in English ENGLISH COURSE 13-JUN-13, 8.30 – 17.00, in English 07-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.30, in French 14-JUN-13, 8.30 – 17.00, in English 12-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.30, in French 17-JUN-13, 8.30 – 17.00, in French 14-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.30, in English An English Oral Expression course will take 27-JUN-13, 8.30 – 17.00, in English 19-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.30, in French place this summer at some time between 28-JUN-13, 8.30 – 17.00, in English 21-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.30, in English August 19 and October 4. 26-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.30, in English Recyclage – Chariots élévateurs (refresher 28-JUN-13, 10.30 – 12.30, in French Schedule: to be determined (2 sessions of 2 course for driving of forklifts) hours per week). 28-JUN-13, 8.30 – 17.30, in French, with Utilisation des équipements de protection handouts in English respiratoire (Use of Respiratory Protection Equipment) Please note that this course is for learners who 28-JUN-13, 8.30 – 12.00, in French have a good knowledge of English (CERN level Recyclage – Conduite de plates-formes 7 upwards). élévatrices mobiles de personnel (PEMP) Please be sure to indicate your planned (refresher course for driving of cherry- Working at heights - Using a harness to pickers) absences in the comments field so we can prevent falling from a height 06-JUN-13, 8.30 – 17.30, in French, with 13-JUN-13, 9.00 – 17.30, in French schedule the course. handouts in English 18-JUN-13, 9.00 – 17.30, in English If you need more information please send 27-JUN-13, 8.30 – 17.30, in French, with a message to [email protected]. handouts in English by Isabelle CUSATO, HSE Unit

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