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CERN Courier–Digital Edition
CERNMarch/April 2021 cerncourier.com COURIERReporting on international high-energy physics WELCOME CERN Courier – digital edition Welcome to the digital edition of the March/April 2021 issue of CERN Courier. Hadron colliders have contributed to a golden era of discovery in high-energy physics, hosting experiments that have enabled physicists to unearth the cornerstones of the Standard Model. This success story began 50 years ago with CERN’s Intersecting Storage Rings (featured on the cover of this issue) and culminated in the Large Hadron Collider (p38) – which has spawned thousands of papers in its first 10 years of operations alone (p47). It also bodes well for a potential future circular collider at CERN operating at a centre-of-mass energy of at least 100 TeV, a feasibility study for which is now in full swing. Even hadron colliders have their limits, however. To explore possible new physics at the highest energy scales, physicists are mounting a series of experiments to search for very weakly interacting “slim” particles that arise from extensions in the Standard Model (p25). Also celebrating a golden anniversary this year is the Institute for Nuclear Research in Moscow (p33), while, elsewhere in this issue: quantum sensors HADRON COLLIDERS target gravitational waves (p10); X-rays go behind the scenes of supernova 50 years of discovery 1987A (p12); a high-performance computing collaboration forms to handle the big-physics data onslaught (p22); Steven Weinberg talks about his latest work (p51); and much more. To sign up to the new-issue alert, please visit: http://comms.iop.org/k/iop/cerncourier To subscribe to the magazine, please visit: https://cerncourier.com/p/about-cern-courier EDITOR: MATTHEW CHALMERS, CERN DIGITAL EDITION CREATED BY IOP PUBLISHING ATLAS spots rare Higgs decay Weinberg on effective field theory Hunting for WISPs CCMarApr21_Cover_v1.indd 1 12/02/2021 09:24 CERNCOURIER www. -
CERN Celebrates Discoveries
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS CERN COURIER VOLUME 43 NUMBER 10 DECEMBER 2003 CERN celebrates discoveries NEW PARTICLES NETWORKS SPAIN Protons make pentaquarks p5 Measuring the digital divide pl7 Particle physics thrives p30 16 KPH impact 113 KPH impact series VISyN High Voltage Power Supplies When the objective is to measure the almost immeasurable, the VISyN-Series is the detector power supply of choice. These multi-output, card based high voltage power supplies are stable, predictable, and versatile. VISyN is now manufactured by Universal High Voltage, a world leader in high voltage power supplies, whose products are in use in every national laboratory. For worldwide sales and service, contact the VISyN product group at Universal High Voltage. Universal High Voltage Your High Voltage Power Partner 57 Commerce Drive, Brookfield CT 06804 USA « (203) 740-8555 • Fax (203) 740-9555 www.universalhv.com Covering current developments in high- energy physics and related fields worldwide CERN Courier (ISSN 0304-288X) is distributed to member state governments, institutes and laboratories affiliated with CERN, and to their personnel. It is published monthly, except for January and August, in English and French editions. The views expressed are CERN not necessarily those of the CERN management. Editor Christine Sutton CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected] Fax:+41 (22) 782 1906 Web: cerncourier.com COURIER Advisory Board R Landua (Chairman), P Sphicas, K Potter, E Lillest0l, C Detraz, H Hoffmann, R Bailey -
A Time of Great Growth
Newsletter | Spring 2019 A Time of Great Growth Heartfelt greetings from the UC Riverside Department of Physics and Astronomy. This is our annual newsletter, sent out each Spring to stay connected with our former students, retired faculty, and friends in the wider community. The Department continues to grow, not merely in size but also in stature and reputation. For the 2018-2019 academic year, we were pleased to welcome two new faculty: Professors Thomas Kuhlman and Barry Barish. Professor Kuhlman was previously on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joins our efforts in the emerging field of biophysics. His research lies in the quantitative imaging and theoretical modeling of biological systems. He works on genome dynamics, quantification of the activity of transposable elements in living cells, and applications to the engineering of genome editing. Professor Barry Barish, who joins us from Caltech, is the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. He brings great prestige to our Department. Along with Professor Richard Schrock of the Department of Chemistry, who also joined UCR in 2018, UCR now has two Nobel Prize winners on its faculty. Professor Barish is an expert on the detection and physics of gravitational waves. He has been one of the key figures in the conception, construction, and operation of the LIGO detector, where gravitational waves were first discovered in 2015, and which led to his Nobel Prize. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the winner of many other prestigious awards. The discovery of gravitational waves is one of the most exciting developments in physics so far this century. -
Abstracts and Speaker Profiles
Project: Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Dr. David Reitze, Executive Director, LIGO Laboratory The Gravitational Wave Astronomical Revolution: India's Emerging Role Abstract: • The past four years have witnessed a revolution in astronomy, enabled by the first detections of gravitational waves from colliding black holes and neutron stars through the direct observation of their gravitational wave emissions by the LIGO and Virgo observatories. These discoveries have profound implications for our understanding of the Universe. Gravitational waves provide unique information about nature's most energetic astrophysical events, revealing insights into the nature of gravity, matter, space, and time that are unobtainable by any other means. In this talk, I will briefly discuss how we detect gravitational waves, how gravitational-wave observatories will revolutionize astronomy in the coming years and decades, and how India is poised to play a key role in the future gravitational wave astronomy. About the Speaker: • David Reitze holds joint positions as the Executive Director of the LIGO Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology and as a Professor of Physics at the University of Florida. His research focuses on the development of gravitational-wave detectors. He received a B.A. in Physics with Honors from Northwestern Univ. and a Ph. D. in Physics from the University of Texas of Austin. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Optical Society. and was jointly awarded the 2017 US National Academy of Sciences Award for Scientific Discovery for his leadership role in LIGO. He is a member of the international LIGO Scientific Collaboration that received numerous awards for the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015, including the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the Gruber Prize for Cosmology, the Princess Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement, and the American Astronomical Society Bruno Rossi Prize. -
The AWAKE Acceleration Scheme for New Particle Physics Experiments at CERN
AWAKE++: the AWAKE Acceleration Scheme for New Particle Physics Experiments at CERN W. Bartmann1, A. Caldwell2, M. Calviani1, J. Chappell3, P. Crivelli4, H. Damerau1, E. Depero4, S. Doebert1, J. Gall1, S. Gninenko5, B. Goddard1, D. Grenier1, E. Gschwendtner*1, Ch. Hessler1, A. Hartin3, F. Keeble3, J. Osborne1, A. Pardons1, A. Petrenko1, A. Scaachi3, and M. Wing3 1CERN, Geneva, Switzerland 2Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany 3University College London, London, UK 4ETH Zürich, Switzerland 5INR Moscow, Russia 1 Abstract The AWAKE experiment reached all planned milestones during Run 1 (2016-18), notably the demon- stration of strong plasma wakes generated by proton beams and the acceleration of externally injected electrons to multi-GeV energy levels in the proton driven plasma wakefields. During Run 2 (2021 - 2024) AWAKE aims to demonstrate the scalability and the acceleration of elec- trons to high energies while maintaining the beam quality. Within the Physics Beyond Colliders (PBC) study AWAKE++ has explored the feasibility of the AWAKE acceleration scheme for new particle physics experiments at CERN. Assuming continued success of the AWAKE program, AWAKE will be in the position to use the AWAKE scheme for particle physics ap- plications such as fixed target experiments for dark photon searches and also for future electron-proton or electron-ion colliders. With strong support from the accelerator and high energy physics community, these experiments could be installed during CERN LS3; the integration and beam line design show the feasibility of a fixed target experiment in the AWAKE facility, downstream of the AWAKE experiment in the former CNGS area. The expected electrons on target for fixed target experiments exceeds the electrons on target by three to four orders of magnitude with respect to the current NA64 experiment, making it a very promising experiment in the search for new physics. -
Barry Barish and the Gde: Mission Achievable
INTERVIEW Barry Barish and the GDE: mission achievable The head of the Global Design Effort for a future International Linear Collider talks about challenges past, present and future. Barry Barish likes a challenge. He admits to a complete tendency to go for the difficult in his research – in his view, life is an adventure. Some might say that his most recent challenge would fit well with a certain famous TV series: “Your mission, should you choose to accept it… is to produce a design for the International Linear Collider that includes a detailed design concept, performance assessments, reliable international costing, an industrialization plan, and siting analysis, as well as detector concepts and scope.” Barish did indeed accept the challenge in March 2005, when he became director of the Global Design Effort (GDE) for a proposed International Linear Collider (ILC). He started in a directorate of one – himself – at the head of a “virtual” laboratory of hundreds of physicists and engineers around the globe. To run the “lab” he has set up a small executive committee, which includes three regional directors (for the Americas, Asia and Europe), three project manag- ers and two leading accelerator experts. There are also boards for R&D, change control and design cost. Barish operates from his base at Caltech, where he has been since 1962 and ultimately became Linde Professor of Physics (now emeri- tus). His taste for research challenges became evident in the 1970s, when he was co-spokesperson with Frank Sciulli (also at Caltech) of the “narrow band” neutrino experiment at Fermilab that studied Barish became director of the Global Design Effort for the International weak neutral currents and the quark substructure of the nucleon. -
Gravitational Waves from the Early Universe
Gravitational Waves from the Early Universe Lecture 1A: Gravitational Waves, Theory Kai Schmitz (CERN) Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea j June 2 – 4 1/21 ◦ 1916: Albert Einstein predicts GWs based on his general theory of relativity ◦ 2016: The LIGO/Virgo Collaboration announces the detection of GW150914 ◦ 2017: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne → Milestone in fundamental physics, triumph of general relativity → Discovery of a new class of astrophysical objects: heavy black holes in binary systems First direct detection of gravitational waves [Nicolle Rager Fuller for sciencenews.org] 2/21 ◦ 2016: The LIGO/Virgo Collaboration announces the detection of GW150914 ◦ 2017: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne → Milestone in fundamental physics, triumph of general relativity → Discovery of a new class of astrophysical objects: heavy black holes in binary systems First direct detection of gravitational waves [Nicolle Rager Fuller for sciencenews.org] ◦ 1916: Albert Einstein predicts GWs based on his general theory of relativity 2/21 ◦ 2017: Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne → Milestone in fundamental physics, triumph of general relativity → Discovery of a new class of astrophysical objects: heavy black holes in binary systems First direct detection of gravitational waves [Nicolle Rager Fuller for sciencenews.org] ◦ 1916: Albert Einstein predicts GWs based on his general theory of relativity ◦ 2016: The LIGO/Virgo -
AWAKE! Allen Caldwell Even Larger Accelerators ?
Swapan Chattopadhyay Symposium April 30, 2021 AWAKE! Allen Caldwell Even larger Accelerators ? Energy limit of circular proton collider given by magnetic field strength. P B R / · Energy gain relies in large part on magnet development Linear Electron Collider or Muon Collider? proton P P Leptons preferred: Collide point particles rather than complex objects But, charged particles radiate energy when accelerated. Power α (E/m)4 Need linear electron accelerator or m large (muon 200 heavier than electron) A plasma: collection of free positive and negative charges (ions and electrons). Material is already broken down. A plasma can therefore sustain very high fields. C. Joshi, UCLA E. Adli, Oslo An intense particle beam, or intense laser beam, can be used to drive the plasma electrons. Plasma frequency depends only on density: Ideas of ~100 GV/m electric fields in plasma, using 1018 W/cm2 lasers: 1979 T.Tajima and J.M.Dawson (UCLA), Laser Electron Accelerator, Phys. Rev. Lett. 43, 267–270 (1979). Using partice beams as drivers: P. Chen et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 693–696 (1985) Energy Budget: Introduction Witness: Staging Concepts 1010 particles @ 1 TeV ≈ few kJ Drivers: PW lasers today, ~40 J/Pulse FACET (e beam, SLAC), 30J/bunch SPS@CERN 20kJ/bunch Leemans & Esarey, Phys. Today 62 #3 (2009) LHC@CERN 300 kJ/bunch Dephasing 1 LHC driven stage SPS: ~100m, LHC: ~few km E. Adli et al. arXiv:1308.1145,2013 FCC: ~ 1<latexit sha1_base64="TR2ZhSl5+Ed6CqWViBcx81dMBV0=">AAAB7XicbZBNS8NAEIYn9avWr6pHL4tF8FQSEeyx4MVjBfsBbSib7aZdu9mE3YkQQv+DFw+KePX/ePPfuG1z0NYXFh7emWFn3iCRwqDrfjuljc2t7Z3ybmVv/+DwqHp80jFxqhlvs1jGuhdQw6VQvI0CJe8lmtMokLwbTG/n9e4T10bE6gGzhPsRHSsRCkbRWp2BUCFmw2rNrbsLkXXwCqhBodaw+jUYxSyNuEImqTF9z03Qz6lGwSSfVQap4QllUzrmfYuKRtz4+WLbGbmwzoiEsbZPIVm4vydyGhmTRYHtjChOzGptbv5X66cYNvxcqCRFrtjyozCVBGMyP52MhOYMZWaBMi3sroRNqKYMbUAVG4K3evI6dK7qnuX761qzUcRRhjM4h0vw4AaacActaAODR3iGV3hzYufFeXc+lq0lp5g5hT9yPn8Avy+PMg==</latexit> A. Caldwell and K. V. Lotov, Phys. -
Inter Actions Department of Physics 2015
INTER ACTIONS DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS 2015 The Department of Physics has a very accomplished family of alumni. In this issue we begin to recognize just a few of them with stories submitted by graduates from each of the decades since 1950. We want to invite all of you to renew and strengthen your ties to our department. We would love to hear from you, telling us what you are doing and commenting on how the department has helped in your career and life. Alumna returns to the Physics Department to Implement New MCS Core Education When I heard that the Department of Physics needed a hand implementing the new MCS Core Curriculum, I couldn’t imagine a better fit. Not only did it provide an opportunity to return to my hometown, but Carnegie Mellon itself had been a fixture in my life for many years, from taking classes as a high school student to teaching after graduation. I was thrilled to have the chance to return. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2008, with a B.S. in physics and a B.A. in Japanese. Afterwards, I continued to teach at CMARC’s Summer Academy for Math and Science during the summers while studying down the street at the University of Pittsburgh. In 2010, I earned my M.A. in East Asian Studies there based on my research into how cultural differences between Japan and America have helped shape their respective robotics industries. After receiving my master’s degree and spending a summer studying in Japan, I taught for Kaplan as graduate faculty for a year before joining the Department of Physics at Cornell University. -
MIT at the Large Hadron Collider—Illuminating the High-Energy Frontier
Mit at the large hadron collider—Illuminating the high-energy frontier 40 ) roland | klute mit physics annual 2010 gunther roland and Markus Klute ver the last few decades, teams of physicists and engineers O all over the globe have worked on the components for one of the most complex machines ever built: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Collaborations of thousands of scientists have assembled the giant particle detectors used to examine collisions of protons and nuclei at energies never before achieved in a labo- ratory. After initial tests proved successful in late 2009, the LHC physics program was launched in March 2010. Now the race is on to fulfill the LHC’s paradoxical mission: to complete the Stan- dard Model of particle physics by detecting its last missing piece, the Higgs boson, and to discover the building blocks of a more complete theory of nature to finally replace the Standard Model. The MIT team working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the LHC stands at the forefront of this new era of particle and nuclear physics. The High Energy Frontier Our current understanding of the fundamental interactions of nature is encap- sulated in the Standard Model of particle physics. In this theory, the multitude of subatomic particles is explained in terms of just two kinds of basic building blocks: quarks, which form protons and neutrons, and leptons, including the electron and its heavier cousins. From the three basic interactions described by the Standard Model—the strong, electroweak and gravitational forces—arise much of our understanding of the world around us, from the formation of matter in the early universe, to the energy production in the Sun, and the stability of atoms and mit physics annual 2010 roland | klute ( 41 figure 1 A photograph of the interior, central molecules. -
Acceptance Speech Kip S. Thorne
Ceremony of the Doctorate Honoris Causa Award to Prof. Kip S. Thorne Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya•BarcelonaTech (UPC). 25th May 2017. Acceptance Speech Kip S. Thorne Thank you, Enrique, for your much too generous description of me and my contributions to science. This honorary doctorate from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya is of great significance to me. It honors, especially, my contributions to LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves. For this reason, I regard myself as sharing it with the large team of scientists and engineers, whose contributions were essential to our discovery. There are only two types of waves that bring us information about the universe: electromagnetic waves and gravitational waves. They travel at the same speed, but aside from this, they could not be more different. Electromagnetic waves—which include light, infrared waves, microwaves, radio waves, ultraviolet waves, X-rays and gamma rays— these are all oscillations of electric and magnetic fields that travel through space and time. Gravitational waves are oscillations in the fabric of space and time. Galileo Galilei opened up electromagnetic astronomy 400 years ago, when he built a small optical telescope, turned it on the sky, and discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter. We LIGO scientists opened up gravitational astronomy in 2015 when our complex detectors discovered gravitational waves from two colliding black holes, a billion light years from Earth. The efforts that produced these two discoveries could not have been more different. Galileo made his discovery alone, though he built on ideas and technology of others. We LIGO scientists made our discovery through a tight collaboration of more than 1000 scientists and engineers. -
The Future of Ground-Based Gravitational-Wave Detectors
Penn State Theory Seminar, March 2, 2018 The Future of Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors David Reitze LIGO Laboratory California Institute of Technology LIGO-G1800292-v1 LIGO Hanford Observatory LIGO-G1800292 Outline ● Why Make Bigger and Better Detectors? ● Improving Advanced LIGO: A+ ● Exploiting the Existing LIGO Facility Limits: Voyager ● Future ‘3G’ Facilities: Cosmic Explorer and Einstein Telescope 2 LIGO-G1800292 Some of the Questions That Gravitational Waves Can Answer ● Outstanding Questions in Fundamental Physics Black Hole Merger and Ringdown » Is General Relativity the correct theory of gravity? » How does matter behave under extreme conditions? » No Hair Theorem: Are black holes truly bald? ● Outstanding Questions in Astrophysics, Astronomy, Cosmology Image credit: W. Benger » Do compact binary mergers cause GRBs? » What is the supernova mechanism in core-collapse of massive Neutron Star Formation stars? » How many low mass black holes are there in the universe? » Do intermediate mass black holes exist? » How bumpy are neutron stars? » Can we observe populations of weak gravitational wave Image credit: NASA sources? » Can binary inspirals be used as “standard sirens” to measure GW Upper limit map the local Hubble parameter? » Are LIGO/Virgo’s binary black holes a component of Dark Matter? » Do Cosmic Strings Exist? Credit: LIGO Scientific Collaboration3 LIGO-G1800292 LIGO-G1800292 Observing Plans for the Coming 5 Years NOW Abbott, et al., “Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced