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CERN Courier – Digital Edition Welcome to the Digital Edition of the December 2014 Issue of CERN Courier I NTERNATIONAL J OURNAL OF H IGH -E NERGY P HYSICS CERNCOURIER WELCOME V OLUME 5 4 N UMBER 1 0 D ECEMBER 2 0 1 4 CERN Courier – digital edition Welcome to the digital edition of the December 2014 issue of CERN Courier. As CERN’s 60th-anniversary year comes to an end, CERN Courier gives a voice to some of the organization’s pioneers who are no longer with us. Extracts from audio recordings in CERN’s archives bring to life the spirit of adventure of the early CERN. One of the studies that CERN pioneered was the measurement of the “g-2” parameter of the muon – an experiment that in its latest incarnation is setting up in Fermilab. The year also saw the 50th anniversary of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, and an interview with the centre’s current director reveals interesting similarities and contrasts between the two organizations. The end of the year also offers the traditional seasonal Bookshelf. Happy reading! 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. IceCube: neutrinos and more DETECTORS PEOPLE THE ICTP CUORE: the coldest CERN Council heart in the selects the next AT 50 EDITOR: CHRISTINE SUTTON, CERN known universe director-general An interview with DIGITAL EDITION CREATED BY JESSE KARJALAINEN/IOP PUBLISHING, UK p5 p5 Fernando Quevedo p37 CERNCOURIER www. V OLUME 5 4 N UMBER 1 0 D ECEMBER 2 0 1 4 CERN Courier December 2014 High Vacuum Contents Covering current developments in high-energy physics and related fi elds worldwide CERN Courier is distributed to member-state governments, institutes and laboratories Monitoring and Control affi liated with CERN, and to their personnel. It is published monthly, except for CERNCOURIER January and August. 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ALICE probes the role of minijets Argonne National Laboratory (US) Tom LeCompte • • Brookhaven National Laboratory (US) P Yamin in p–Pb collisions… …and investigates suppression of ψ(2S) Cornell University (US) D G Cassel • DESY Laboratory (Germany) Till Mundzeck ATLAS takes a closer look at W+jets CMS presents precision EMFCSC (Italy) Anna Cavallini • • Enrico Fermi Centre (Italy) Guido Piragino measurements of the top-quark mass from Run 1 • ILC-type Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US) Katie Yurkewicz cryomodule makes the grade The Global Neutrino Network Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) Markus Buescher • GSI Darmstadt (Germany) I Peter takes off 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 A STROWATCH Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (US) Spencer Klein Los Alamos National Laboratory (US) Rajan Gupta NCSL (US) Ken Kingery 17 A RCHIVE Nikhef (Netherlands) Robert Fleischer Novosibirsk Institute (Russia) S Eidelman Orsay Laboratory (France) Anne-Marie Lutz F EATURES PSI Laboratory (Switzerland) P-R Kettle Saclay Laboratory (France) Elisabeth Locci 19 RHIC’s new gold record Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK) Julia Maddock SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US) Farnaz Khadem An exceptional run for the heavy-ion collider in 2014. 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V OLUME 5 4 N UMBER 1 0 D ECEMBER 2 0 1 4 CERN Courier December 2014 News A PPOINTMENT Picoammeter/Electrometer CERN Council selects next director-general Reinvented. At its 173rd closed session on 4 November, has been a research physicist in the physics CERN Council selected the Italian physicist department at CERN since 1994, being Fabiola Gianotti as the organization’s next involved in detector R&D and construction, director-general. The appointment will software development and data analysis, for be formalized at the December session of example for supersymmetry searches by the Council, and Gianotti’s mandate will begin ALEPH experiment at the Large Electron– on 1 January 2016 and run for a period of fi ve Positron (LEP) collider. years. She will be the fi rst woman to hold the However, it is for her contributions to the position of director-general at CERN. ATLAS experiment at the LHC that Gianotti Council rapidly converged in favour of has become particularly well known. She Gianotti. “We were extremely impressed was leader of the ATLAS experiment with all three candidates put forward by collaboration from March 2009 to February the search committee,” said Agnieszka Fabiola Gianotti in front of the ATLAS 2013, covering the period in which the LHC Zalewska, the president of Council, on detector. (Image credit: C Marcelloni/ experiments ATLAS and CMS announced the announcement of the decision. “It was ATLAS CERN-GE-1102058-02.) the long-awaited discovery of a Higgs boson, Dr Gianotti’s vision for CERN’s future as which was recognized by the award of the a world-leading accelerator laboratory, Gianotti received a PhD in experimental Nobel Prize to François Englert and Peter coupled with her in-depth knowledge of both particle physics from the University of Milan Higgs in 2013. Since August 2013, Gianotti CERN and the fi eld of experimental particle in 1989, working on the UA2 experiment at has been an honorary professor at the physics, that led us to this outcome.” CERN for her thesis on supersymmetry.
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