I NTERNATIONAL J OURNAL OF H IGH -E NERGY P HYSICS CERNCOURIER WELCOME V OLUME 5 6 N UMBER 2 M ARCH 2 0 1 6 CERN Courier – digital edition Welcome to the digital edition of the March 2016 issue of CERN Courier. This month we have been captivated by the wonderful images of the Very Large Telescope, ESO’s breathtaking installation, which made the cover, and the article is as inspiring as the accompanying photographs. We also collect a series of “firsts” in this issue. The first Viewpoint by CERN’s new Director-General, Fabiola Gianotti, as well as the first article about the newly proposed SHiP facility, designed to explore the hidden world. And the idea that two researchers had to use the sonification technique (well known in particle physics) to develop novel investigation methods to study the body motor also comes under the “first” label. In addition to a great collection of features, we have a rich body of news articles, with new information published on antimatter and nuclear physics. 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. The giant of astronomy CERN INTENSITY FRONTIER ANTIHYDROGEN Introducing the The SHiP experiment is Organization’s on the lookout for CHARGE EDITOR: ANTONELLA DEL ROSSO, CERN new management hidden particles ALPHA presents DIGITAL EDITION CREATED BY JESSE KARJALAINEN/IOP PUBLISHING, UK p21 p25 new results p9 CERNCOURIER www. V OLUME 5 6 N UMBER 2 M ARCH 2 0 1 6 CERN Courier March 2016 Contents TURBOVAC 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. 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TURBOLAB OLUME UMBER ARCH Editor Antonella Del Rosso V 5 6 N 2 M 2 0 1 6 Books editor Virginia Greco CERN, 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland E-mail [email protected] Fax +41 (0) 22 76 69070 5 V IEWPOINT Web cerncourier.com Luis Alvarez-Gaume, Peter Jenni, Christine Sutton, Claude Amsler, Advisory board 7 N EWS Roger Bailey, Philippe Bloch, Roger Forty CERN sets accelerator objectives for 2016 Exploring the Laboratory correspondents: • • Argonne National Laboratory (US) Tom LeCompte nature of the proposed magic number N = 32 New ALPHA Brookhaven National Laboratory (US) P Yamin • Cornell University (US) D G Cassel measurement of the charge of antihydrogen • ATLAS searches DESY Laboratory (Germany) Till Mundzeck for strong SUSY production at Run 2 CMS bridges the gap in jet EMFCSC (Italy) Anna Cavallini • Enrico Fermi Centre (Italy) Guido Piragino measurements Jet ν2 measurements with ALICE LHCb brings Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US) Katie Yurkewicz • • Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) Markus Buescher charm physics to the frontier of experimental knowledge GSI Darmstadt (Germany) I Peter IHEP, Beijing (China) Tongzhou Xu Construction of KM3NeT, a next-generation neutrino telescope, IHEP, Serpukhov (Russia) Yu Ryabov • INFN (Italy) Antonella Varaschin has begun • Manufacturing and delivery of components for the Jefferson Laboratory (US) Steven Corneliussen new heavy-ion synchrotron SIS100 at FAIR has begun LUNA JINR Dubna (Russia) B Starchenko • KEK National Laboratory (Japan) Saeko Okada observes a rare nuclear reaction that occurs in giant red stars Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (US) Spencer Klein Los Alamos National Laboratory (US) Rajan Gupta DAMPE joins the search for dark matter in space NCSL (US) Ken Kingery • Nikhef (Netherlands) Robert Fleischer Novosibirsk Institute (Russia) S Eidelman 17 S CIENCEWATCH Orsay Laboratory (France) Anne-Marie Lutz PSI Laboratory (Switzerland) P-R Kettle Saclay Laboratory (France) Elisabeth Locci 19 A STROWATCH Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK) Jane Binks SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US) Farnaz Khadem TRIUMF Laboratory (Canada) Marcello Pavan F EATURES ©BICOM_13622.02 0.1.2016 Produced for CERN by IOP Publishing Ltd 21 CERN’s new management begins a fi ve-year term IOP Publishing Ltd, Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK The laboratory takes on the challenges of the Tel +44 (0)117 929 7481 coming years. 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These include R&D on superconducting high-fi eld magnets, high-gradient, high-effi ciency accelerating structures, and novel acceleration technologies. In this context, AWAKE is a unique project using CERN’s high-energy, high-intensity proton beams to investigate the potential of proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration for the very-long-term future. In parallel, CERN is playing a leading role in international This model magnet recently By Fabiola Gianotti design studies for future high-energy colliders that achieved a fi eld of 16.2 T at could succeed the LHC in the medium-to-long term. CERN, twice the nominal Over the next fi ve years, key events shaping the future Circular options, with colliding electron–positron fi eld of the LHC dipoles, of particle physics will unfold. We will have results and proton–proton beams, are covered by the Future offering promise for a from the second run of the LHC, and from other Circular Collider (FCC) study, while the Compact long-term accelerator-based particle and astroparticle physics projects around the Linear Collider (CLIC) study offers potential future for the laboratory.