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Laboratoire de Physique des Hautes Energies (LPHE) Outreach activities, web, radio&TV, non-specialized conferences and publications April 2009 – March 2016

We list here activities aiming at making our research known to less specialized audiences, or more generally to the public at large.

April 2015 – March 2016

1. C. Fitzpatrick, guide for visit at CERN of students from Campbell College Belfast, March 19, 2016. 2. O. Schneider, visit organized at CERN (at LHCb, CAST, and LHC magnets) for 60 Bachelor students of EPFL, November 17, 2015. 3. I. Komarov, “On the irreversibility of time and Einstein’s theory”, online lecture for children in the framework of the “Scientists to kids” project, Experimentarium Museum, Moscow, Russia, October 24, 2015. 4. CERN Courier: “LHCb improves trigger in Run 2”, September 25, 2015. 5. O. Schneider, participation in an interdisciplinary podium discussion “Le boson de Higgs – architecte de l’Univers ?” after a public screening of the movie “Particle Fever” (flyer), Lyc´ee-Coll`egedes Creusets, Sion, Switzerland, September 25, 2015. 6. LHCb public web site: “First LHC run2 physics results: measurement of J/ψ production cross- sections in pp collisions at 13 TeV”, July 24, 2015. 7. EPFL news: “EPFL contributes to breakthrough experiment at CERN”(“L’EPFL contribue `aune d´ecouverte majeure au CERN”, May 21, 2015. 8. EPFL news: “Tatsuya Nakada awarded Honorary Doctorate from University of Zurich”(“Tatsuya Nakada honor´epar l’Universit´ede Zurich”), May 4, 2015. 9. V. Battista, “LHCb: tra bellezza e asimmetrie”, science popularization article published in “Quaderni di scienza e scienziati molisani”, 2015.

April 2014 – March 2015

1. S. Tourneur, F. Blanc, S. Gian`ı,I. Komarov and Z. Xu, organisation of the first Physics PhD Career Day of the CUSO Doctoral Program in Physics, March 30, 2015. 2. F. Blanc, invited guest at the round-table discussion of the first Physics PhD Career Day of the CUSO Doctoral Program in Physics, March 30, 2015. 3. M. Martinelli, seminars on targeted to an audience of high-school students, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, March 2015 and 2016. 4. O. Schneider, visit organized at CERN (LHCb and LHC magnets) for 70 Bachelor students of EPFL, November 18, 2014. 5. O. Schneider et al., historical posters on the Swiss scientific contributions to CERN, 2014 CHIPP annual plenary meeting and PhD/postdoc days, 2014 annual meeting of the Swiss Physical Society, Fribourg, Switzerland, June 30 – July 2, 2014. 6. T. Nakada, “European strategy for particle physics”, invited talk at the session “‘What the Higgs do we do now ?” of the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF 2014), Copenhagen, Denmark, June 21–26, 2014. 2

7. C. Fitzpatrick, LHCb visit for and interview by BBC radio 4, June 13, 2014. 8. T. Head, teacher of the LHCb International Masterclasses, 2014.

9. A. Bay and J.-F. Loude, restoration of a historical multi-wire proportional chamber built in Lau- sanne for Georges Charpak, Physics Museum, University of Lausanne, 2014.

0 10. LHCb public web site: “CP violation in the Bs system – looking for a chink in the armour of the Standard Model”, October 15, 2014. 11. O. Schneider, “TASK and CHIPP plenary meeting”, Communications of the Swiss Physical Society, Issue 44, pp. 12-13, September 2014. 12. O. Schneider, “A tool that particle physicists dream of”, interview published in Horizons – the Swiss magazine for scientific research, No 101, p. 28, June 2014. 13. O. Schneider, “Le CERN donne `ala Suisse une image positive d’ouverture”(“Das CERN ver- mittelt der Schweiz ein positives Image der Weltoffenheit”), interview at the occasion of the 60th anniversary of CERN celebrated at the annual meetings of the Swiss Physical Society and the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP), June 2014. 14. CERN bulletin: “Polarisation confirmed”(“Polarisation confirm´ee”), May 12, 2014. 15. LHCb public web site: “Unambiguous observation of an exotic particle which cannot be classified within the traditional quark model”, April 9, 2014.

April 2013 – March 2014

1. F. Soomro, F. Blanc and A. Bay, visit organized at CERN/LHCb, January 7, 2014 (for EPFL office of International Relations). 2. A. Bay, construction of a cosmic ray detector used in the framework of two student projects (travaux de maturit´e), Gymnase de Burier, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland, November 2013. 3. R. M¨arki,visits organized at CERN, November 2, 2013 (for the Association romande des orthodon- tistes).

4. F. Soomro, visits guided at CERN/LHCb, September 19, 23, 28–29, 2013; January 19, 2014 (Ro- manian media personnel); March 28, 2014 (for CERN IT personnel and a German company). 5. F. Soomro, visit organized at CERN/LHCb, August 7, 2013. 6. F. Blanc, visits organized at CERN (LHCb, Globe and Microcosm), May 8, 2013, July 13, 2013.

7. O. Schneider, visits organized at CERN (LHCb, Globe and Microcosm), June 4, 2013 (for the direction of Creabeton), July 5, 2013. 8. F. Dupertuis, R. M¨arkiand M.T. Tran, visit organized at LHCb, May 25, 2013 (for the Jeune chambre ´economique de Lausanne).

9. M.T. Tran, public lecture for the Jeune chambre ´economique de Lausanne, May 25, 2013.

April 2012 – March 2013

1. F. Blanc, visit organized at CERN (LHCb experiment, Globe, Microcosm) for high-school students from the Gymnase de Provence, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 27, 2013. 2. A. Bay, “Le boson de Higgs”, caf´escientifique de la Facult´ede Biologie et de M´edecinede l’Universit´e de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 18, 2013. 3

3. LHCb collaboration, “Precise search for new physics”, announcement on the LHCb public web site http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/#EW2013, March 3, 2013. [Regular news for the public are posted on http://www.cern.ch/lhcb-public, describing scientific achievements by LHCb; the above announcement is directly related to results obtained by members of our group.] 4. O. Schneider, “La physique des hautes ´energies, plus c’est haut plus c’est . . . ”, conf´erence`a l’Association du Foyer paroissial de Saint-Sulpice, Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland, February 14, 2013. 5. O. Schneider, visit organized at CERN (Globe, Microcosm, presentation) for teenagers from the region of Granges-pr`es-Marnand,Switzerland, December 8, 2012. 6. O. Schneider, “L’exp´erienceLHCb au CERN / The LHCb experiment at CERN”, presentation and discussion with a group of students from the “Fondation Suisse d’Etudes / Schweizerische Studienstiftung” during a visit at CERN, April 17, 2012.

April 2011 – March 2012

1. LHCb collaboration, public web site, http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/; regular news for the public are posted on this site, describing scientific results obtained by LHCb; the following announcements are directly related to results obtained by members of our group:

• “Exotic mesons”, October 27, 2010. 0 • “Different properties of matter and antimatter for Bs mesons”, August 27, 2011.

• “Heavier strange-beauty lives longer and improved φs measurements”, March 5, 2012. • “LHCb strongly squeezes SUSY parameter space”, March 30, 2012.

2. A. Bay, guided visit at CERN for the Association des professeurs de l’EPFL (APEL), May 27, 2011. 3. T. Nakada and O. Schneider, participation (as representatives of the Swiss groups in LHCb) in the visit at CERN of the Swiss Federal Council, July 7, 2012. 4. O. Schneider, guided visit at CERN and at the LHCb pit for the staff of a local company (S&S S`arl,G´eniem´edico-technique, Moutier, Switzerland), February 2, 2012.

April 2010 – March 2011

1. A. Bay, O. Schneider et al., “La physique des particules”, outreach activities (posters, demonstra- tion, games, . . . ) during the open days “Objectif Sciences” at EPFL, May 2010.

April 2009 – March 2010

1. M.-O. Bettler, A. Bay, P. Szczypka et C. Potterat, “Cluster LPHE1: de la simulation `al’analyse de donn´eesdu LHC”, EPFL Flash Informatique 8/2009, Novembre 2009.

2. T. Nakada et al., “The : a Marvel of Technology”, edited by Lyndon Evans, EPFL Press, 2009, ISBN-978-1-4398-0401-8. 3. A. Bay, “Physique des particules, LHC, trous noirs”, seminar for service club “Groupe d’Ouchy”, Lausanne, January 18, 2010.