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New Physics searches using ProtoDUNE and the CERN SPS accelerator

The exquisite capabilities of liquid Argon Time Projection Chambers make them ideal to search for weakly interacting particles in Beyond the Standard Model scenarios. Given their location at CERN the ProtoDUNE detectors may be exposed to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-26 Pilar Coloma , Jacobo López-Pavón , Laura Molina-Bueno , Salvador Urrea

A Beta Beam complex based on the machine upgrades for the LHC

The Beta Beam CERN design is based on the present LHC injection complex and its physics reach is mainly limited by the maximum rigidity of the SPS. In fact, some of the scenarios for the machine upgrades of the LHC, particularly the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 A. Donini , E. Fernandez-Martinez , P. Migliozzi , S. Rigolin , L. Scotto Lavina , T. Tabarelli de Fatis , F. Terranova

Brief physics survey with CMS in year one

The CMS detector is one of the two general purpose experiments that will study the collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC is supposed to start its operation in 2007 at an instantaneous luminosity of 2 x 10^33 cm-2…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Bruno

KOMPASS: the new cold neutron triple-axis-spectrometer specialized for polarization analysis

KOMPASS is a polarized triple-axis cold neutron spectrometer recently installed at the FRM II neutron source. The instrument is designed to operate exclusively with polarized neutrons and is specialized in longitudinal polarization analysis…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-10 D. Gorkov , M. Müller , G. Waldherr , A. Grünwald , J. Stein , S. Giemsa , A. C. Komarek , P. Böni , M. Braden

Simultaneous muon and reference hadron measurements in the Compressed Baryonic Matter experiment at FAIR

The mission of the Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) in Darmstadt is to explore the QCD phase diagram at high net baryon densities likely to exist in the core of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-06-24 Anna Senger

A primary electron beam facility at CERN -- eSPS Conceptual design report

The design of a primary electron beam facility at CERN is described. The study has been carried out within the framework of the wider Physics Beyond Colliders study. It re-enables the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) as an electron…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-12-22 M. Aicheler , T. Akesson , F. Antoniou , A. Arnalich , P. A. Arrutia Sota , P. Bettencourt Moniz Cabral , D. Bozzini , M. Brugger , O. Brunner , P. N. Burrows , R. Calaga , M. J. Capstick , R. Corsini , S. Doebert , L. A. Dougherty , Y. Dutheil , L. A. Dyks , O. Etisken , L. Evans , A. Farricker , R. Fernandez Ortega , M. A. Fraser , J. Gall , S. J. Gessner , B. Goddard , J-L. Grenard , A. Grudiev , E. Gschwendtner , J. Gulley , L. Jensen , R. Jones , M. Lamont , A. Latina , T. Lefevre , R. Lopes , H. Mainaud Durand , S. Marsh , G. Mcmonagle , E. Montesinos , R. Morton , P. Muggli , A. Navascues Cornago , M. Nonis , J. A. Osborne , Y. Papaphilippou , A. M. Rossi , C. Rossi , I. Ruehl , S. Schadegg , E. Shaposhnikova , D. Schulte , S. Stapnes , M. Widorski , O. E. Williams , W. Wuensch

Supporting High-Performance and High-Throughput Computing for Experimental Science

The advent of experimental science facilities-instruments and observatories, such as the Large Hadron Collider, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, and the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope-has brought about…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-12 E. A. Huerta , Roland Haas , Shantenu Jha , Mark Neubauer , Daniel S. Katz

A facility to Search for Hidden Particles (SHiP) at the CERN SPS

A new general purpose fixed target facility is proposed at the CERN SPS accelerator which is aimed at exploring the domain of hidden particles and make measurements with tau neutrinos. Hidden particles are predicted by a large number of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-04-21 SHiP Collaboration , M. Anelli , S. Aoki , G. Arduini , J. J. Back , A. Bagulya , W. Baldini , A. Baranov , G. J. Barker , S. Barsuk , M. Battistin , J. Bauche , A. Bay , V. Bayliss , L. Bellagamba , G. Bencivenni , M. Bertani , O. Bezshyyko , D. Bick , N. Bingefors , A. Blondel , M. Bogomilov , A. Boyarsky , D. Bonacorsi , D. Bondarenko , W. Bonivento , J. Borburgh , T. Bradshaw , R. Brenner , D. Breton , N. Brook , M. Bruschi , A. Buonaura , S. Buontempo , S. Cadeddu , A. Calcaterra , M. Calviani , M. Campanelli , C. Capoccia , A. Cecchetti , A. Chatterjee , J. Chauveau , A. Chepurnov , M. Chernyavskiy , P. Ciambrone , C. Cicalo , G. Conti , K. Cornelis , M. Courthold , M. G. Dallavalle , N. D'Ambrosio , G. De Lellis , M. De Serio , L. Dedenko , A. Di Crescenzo , N. Di Marco , C. Dib , J. Dietrich , H. Dijkstra , D. Domenici , S. Donskov , D. Druzhkin , J. Ebert , U. Egede , A. Egorov , V. Egorychev , M. A. El Alaoui , T. Enik , A. Etenko , F. Fabbri , L. Fabbri , G. Fedorova , G. Felici , M. Ferro-Luzzi , R. A. Fini , M. Franke , M. Fraser , G. Galati , B. Giacobbe , B. Goddard , L. Golinka-Bezshyyko , D. Golubkov , A. Golutvin , D. Gorbunov , E. Graverini , J-L Grenard , A. M. Guler , C. Hagner , H. Hakobyan , J. C. Helo , E. van Herwijnen , D. Horvath , M. Iacovacci , G. Iaselli , R. Jacobsson , I. Kadenko , M. Kamiscioglu , C. Kamiscioglu , G. Khaustov , A. Khotjansev , B. Kilminster , V. Kim , N. Kitagawa , K. Kodama , A. Kolesnikov , D. Kolev , M. Komatsu , N. Konovalova , S. Koretskiy , I. Korolko , A. Korzenev , S. Kovalenko , Y. Kudenko , E. Kuznetsova , H. Lacker , A. Lai , G. Lanfranchi , A. Lauria , H. Lebbolo , J. -M. Levy , L. Lista , P. Loverre , A. Lukiashin , V. E. Lyubovitskij , A. Malinin , M. Manfredi , A. Perillo-Marcone , A. Marrone , R. Matev , E. N. Messomo , P. Mermod , S. Mikado , Yu. Mikhaylov , J. Miller , D. Milstead , O. Mineev , R. Mingazheva , G. Mitselmakher , M. Miyanishi , P. Monacelli , A. Montanari , M. C. Montesi , G. Morello , K. Morishima , S. Movtchan , V. Murzin , N. Naganawa , T. Naka , M. Nakamura , T. Nakano , N. Nurakhov , B. Obinyakov , K. Ocalan , S. Ogawa , V. Oreshkin , A. Orlov , J. Osborne , P. Pacholek , J. Panman , A. Paoloni , L. Paparella , A. Pastore , M. Patel , K. Petridis , M. Petrushin , M. Poli-Lener , N. Polukhina , V. Polyakov , M. Prokudin , G. Puddu , F. Pupilli , F. Rademakers , A. Rakai , T. Rawlings , F. Redi , S. Ricciardi , R. Rinaldesi , T. Roganova , A. Rogozhnikov , H. Rokujo , A. Romaniouk , G. Rosa , I. Rostovtseva , T. Rovelli , O. Ruchayskiy , T. Ruf , G. Saitta , V. Samoylenko , V. Samsonov , A. Sanz Ull , A. Saputi , O. Sato , W. Schmidt-Parzefall , N. Serra , S. Sgobba , M. Shaposhnikov , P. Shatalov , A. Shaykhiev , L. Shchutska , V. Shevchenko , H. Shibuya , Y. Shitov , S. Silverstein , S. Simone , M. Skorokhvatov , S. Smirnov , E. Solodko , V. Sosnovtsev , R. Spighi , M. Spinetti , N. Starkov , B. Storaci , C. Strabel , P. Strolin , S. Takahashi , P. Teterin , V. Tioukov , D. Tommasini , D. Treille , R. Tsenov , T. Tshchedrina , A. Ustyuzhanin , F. Vannucci , V. Venturi , M. Villa , Heinz Vincke , Helmut Vincke , M. Vladymyrov , S. Xella , M. Yalvac , N. Yershov , D. Yilmaz , A. U. Yilmazer , G. Vankova-Kirilova , Y. Zaitsev , A. Zoccoli

Hard and electromagnetic probes: plans for future measurements at the CERN SPS

The CERN SuperProtoSynchrotron (SPS) represents an ideal facility for fixed-target heavy-ion experiments exploring the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter in the region $200\le\mu_{\rm B}\le500$ MeV. It can deliver high-intensity…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-07-24 E. Scomparin

The COMPASS sandwich veto detector and a first look at kaonic final states from a $\pi^-$ ($190\,\textrm{GeV}) beam on a proton target

We introduce the sandwich veto detector that was built for the 2008 and 2009 hadron runs of the COMPASS experiment at CERN. During these beamtimes it was serving as a veto detector for neutral and charged particles outside the spectrometer…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Tobias Schlüter

Design Development for the Beam Dump Facility Target Complex at CERN

CERN has launched a study phase to evaluate the feasibility of a new high-intensity beam dump facility at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron accelerator with the primary goal of exploring Hidden Sector models and searching for Light Dark…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-18 K. Kershaw , J. -L. Grenard , M. Calviani , C. Ahdida , M. Casolino , S. Delavalle , D. Hounsome , R. Jacobsson , M. Lamont , E. Lopez Sola , R. Scott , V. Vlachoudis , H. Vincke

Studies for New Experiments at the CERN M2 Beamline within "Physics Beyond Colliders": AMBER/COMPASS++, NA64mu, MuonE

The "Physics Beyond Colliders (PBC)" study explores fundamental physics opportunities at the CERN accelerator complex complementary to collider experiments. Three new collaborations aim to exploit the M2 beamline in the North Area with…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-08-26 Johannes Bernhard , Dipanwita Banerjee , Eva Montbarbon , Markus Brugger , Nikolaos Charitonidis , Serhii Cholak , Gian Luigi D'Alessandro , Lau Gatignon , Alexander Gerbershagen , Bastien Rae , Marcel Rosenthal , Maarten van Dijk , Benjamin Moritz Veit

Tests of silicon sensors for the CMS pixel detector

The tracking system of the CMS experiment, currently under construction at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), will include a silicon pixel detector providing three spacial measurements in its final configuration…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-01-28 A. Dorokhov , C. Amsler , D. Bortoletto , V. Chiochia , L. Cremaldi , S. Cucciarelli , M. Konecki , K. Prokofiev , C. Regenfus , T. Rohe , D. Sanders , S. Son , T. Speer , M. Swartz

Prospects for Proton-Proton Measurements with Tagged Protons in ATLAS

In 2017, ATLAS has been equipped with a new, dedicated detector system allowing measurements of forward protons scattered at small angles in diffractive and electromagnetic processes. These ATLAS Forward Proton detectors (AFP) can operate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-17 Maciej Trzebinski

Heavy-Ion Physics with CMS

This article presents a brief overview of the CMS experiment capabilities to study the hot and dense matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The CERN Large Hadron Collider will provide collisions of Pb nuclei at 5.5 TeV per…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-06-09 Aneta Iordanova

Physics Performance Report for PANDA: Strong Interaction Studies with Antiprotons

To study fundamental questions of hadron and nuclear physics in interactions of antiprotons with nucleons and nuclei, the universal PANDA detector will be built. Gluonic excitations, the physics of strange and charm quarks and nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-17 PANDA Collaboration , W. Erni , I. Keshelashvili , B. Krusche , M. Steinacher , Y. Heng , Z. Liu , H. Liu , X. Shen , O. Wang , H. Xu , J. Becker , F. Feldbauer , F. -H. Heinsius , T. Held , H. Koch , B. Kopf , M. Pelizaeus , T. Schroeder , M. Steinke , U. Wiedner , J. Zhong , A. Bianconi , M. Bragadireanu , D. Pantea , A. Tudorache , V. Tudorache , M. De Napoli , F. Giacoppo , G. Raciti , E. Rapisarda , C. Sfienti , E. Bialkowski , A. Budzanowski , B. Czech , M. Kistryn , S. Kliczewski , A. Kozela , P. Kulessa , K. Pysz , W. Schaefer , R. Siudak , A. Szczurek , W. Czy. zycki , M. Domagala , M. Hawryluk , E. Lisowski , F. Lisowski , L. Wojnar , D. Gil , P. Hawranek , B. Kamys , St. Kistryn , K. Korcyl , W. Krzemien , A. Magiera , P. Moskal , Z. Rudy , P. Salabura , J. Smyrski , A. Wronska , M. Al-Turany , I. Augustin , H. Deppe , H. Flemming , J. Gerl , K. Goetzen , R. Hohler , D. Lehmann , B. Lewandowski , J. Luehning , F. Maas , D. Mishra , H. Orth , K. Peters , T. Saito , G. Schepers , C. J. Schmidt , L. Schmitt , C. Schwarz , B. Voss , P. Wieczorek , A. Wilms , K. -T. Brinkmann , H. Freiesleben , R. Jaekel , R. Kliemt , T. Wuerschig , H. -G. Zaunick , V. M. Abazov , G. Alexeev , A. Arefiev , V. I. Astakhov , M. Yu. Barabanov , B. V. Batyunya , Yu. I. Davydov , V. Kh. Dodokhov , A. A. Efremov , A. G. Fedunov , A. A. Feshchenko , A. S. Galoyan , S. Grigoryan , A. Karmokov , E. K. Koshurnikov , V. Ch. Kudaev , V. I. Lobanov , Yu. Yu. Lobanov , A. F. Makarov , L. V. Malinina , V. L. Malyshev , G. A. Mustafaev , A. Olshevski , M. A. Pasyuk , E. A. Perevalova , A. A. Piskun , T. A. Pocheptsov , G. Pontecorvo , V. K. Rodionov , Yu. N. Rogov , R. A. Salmin , A. G. Samartsev , M. G. Sapozhnikov , A. Shabratova , G. S. Shabratova , A. N. Skachkova , N. B. Skachkov , E. A. Strokovsky , M. K. Suleimanov , R. Sh. Teshev , V. V. Tokmenin , V. V. Uzhinsky , A. S. Vodopianov , S. A. Zaporozhets , N. I. Zhuravlev , A. G. Zorin , D. Branford , K. Foehl , D. Glazier , D. Watts , P. Woods , W. Eyrich , A. Lehmann , A. Teufel , S. Dobbs , Z. Metreveli , K. Seth , B. Tann , A. Tomaradze , D. Bettoni , V. Carassiti , A. Cecchi , P. Dalpiaz , E. Fioravanti , I. Garzia , M. Negrini , M. Savri`e , G. Stancari , B. Dulach , P. Gianotti , C. Guaraldo , V. Lucherini , E. Pace , A. Bersani , M. Macri , M. Marinelli , R. F. Parodi , I. Brodski , W. Doering , P. Drexler , M. Dueren , Z. Gagyi-Palffy , A. Hayrapetyan , M. Kotulla , W. Kuehn , S. Lange , M. Liu , V. Metag , M. Nanova , R. Novotny , C. Salz , J. Schneider , P. Schoenmeier , R. Schubert , S. Spataro , H. Stenzel , C. Strackbein , M. Thiel , U. Thoering , S. Yang , T. Clarkson , E. Cowie , E. Downie , G. Hill , M. Hoek , D. Ireland , R. Kaiser , T. Keri , I. Lehmann , K. Livingston , S. Lumsden , D. MacGregor , B. McKinnon , M. Murray , D. Protopopescu , G. Rosner , B. Seitz , G. Yang , M. Babai , A. K. Biegun , A. Bubak , E. Guliyev , V. S. Jothi , M. Kavatsyuk , H. Loehner , J. Messchendorp , H. Smit , J. C. van der Weele , F. Garcia , D. -O. Riska , M. Buescher , R. Dosdall , R. Dzhygadlo , A. Gillitzer , D. Grunwald , V. Jha , G. Kemmerling , H. Kleines , A. Lehrach , R. Maier , M. Mertens , H. Ohm , D. Prasuhn , T. Randriamalala , J. Ritman , M. Roeder , T. Stockmanns , P. Wintz , P. Wuestner , J. Kisiel , S. Li , Z. Li , Z. Sun , H. Xu , S. Fissum , K. Hansen , L. Isaksson , M. Lundin , B. Schroeder , P. Achenbach , M. C. Mora Espi , J. Pochodzalla , S. Sanchez , A. Sanchez-Lorente , V. I. Dormenev , A. A. Fedorov , M. V. Korzhik , O. V. Missevitch , V. Balanutsa , V. Chernetsky , A. Demekhin , A. Dolgolenko , P. Fedorets , A. Gerasimov , V. Goryachev , A. Boukharov , O. Malyshev , I. Marishev , A. Semenov , C. Hoeppner , B. Ketzer , I. Konorov , A. Mann , S. Neubert , S. Paul , Q. Weitzel , A. Khoukaz , T. Rausmann , A. Taeschner , J. Wessels , R. Varma , E. Baldin , K. Kotov , S. Peleganchuk , Yu. Tikhonov , J. Boucher , T. Hennino , R. Kunne , S. Ong , J. Pouthas , B. Ramstein , P. Rosier , M. Sudol , J. Van de Wiele , T. Zerguerras , K. Dmowski , R. Korzeniewski , D. Przemyslaw , B. Slowinski , G. Boca , A. Braghieri , S. Costanza , A. Fontana , P. Genova , L. Lavezzi , P. Montagna , A. Rotondi , N. I. Belikov , A. M. Davidenko , A. A. Derevschikov , Y. M. Goncharenko , V. N. Grishin , V. A. Kachanov , D. A. Konstantinov , V. A. Kormilitsin , V. I. Kravtsov , Y. A. Matulenko , Y. M. Melnik , A. P. Meschanin , N. G. Minaev , V. V. Mochalov , D. A. Morozov , L. V. Nogach , S. B. Nurushev , A. V. Ryazantsev , P. A. Semenov , L. F. Soloviev , A. V. Uzunian , A. N. Vasiliev , A. E. Yakutin , T. Baeck , B. Cederwall , C. Bargholtz , L. Geren , P. E. Tegner , S. Belostotski , G. Gavrilov , A. Itzotov , A. Kisselev , P. Kravchenko , S. Manaenkov , O. Miklukho , Y. Naryshkin , D. Veretennikov , V. Vikhrov , A. Zhadanov , L. Fava , D. Panzieri , D. Alberto , A. Amoroso , E. Botta , T. Bressani , S. Bufalino , M. P. Bussa , L. Busso , F. De Mori , M. Destefanis , L. Ferrero , A. Grasso , M. Greco , T. Kugathasan , M. Maggiora , S. Marcello , G. Serbanut , S. Sosio , R. Bertini , D. Calvo , S. Coli , P. De Remigis , A. Feliciello , A. Filippi , G. Giraudo , G. Mazza , A. Rivetti , K. Szymanska , F. Tosello , R. Wheadon , O. Morra , M. Agnello , F. Iazzi , K. Szymanska , R. Birsa , F. Bradamante , A. Bressan , A. Martin , H. Clement , C. Ekstroem , H. Calen , S. Grape , B. Hoeistad , T. Johansson , A. Kupsc , P. Marciniewski , E. Thome , J. Zlomanczuk , J. Diaz , A. Ortiz , S. Borsuk , A. Chlopik , Z. Guzik , J. Kopec , T. Kozlowski , D. Melnychuk , M. Plominski , J. Szewinski , K. Traczyk , B. Zwieglinski , P. Buehler , A. Gruber , P. Kienle , J. Marton , E. Widmann , J. Zmeskal , M. F. M. Lutz , B. Pire , O. Scholten , R. Timmermans

Nucleon Spin Structure with hadronic collisions at COMPASS

In order to illustrate the capabilities of COMPASS using a hadronic beam, I review some of the azimuthal asymmetries in hadronic collisions, that allow for the extraction of transversity, Sivers and Boer-Mulders functions, necessary to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-08-03 Marco Radici , Francesco Conti , Alessandro Bacchetta , Andrea Bianconi

Heavy Ion Physics Program in CMS Experiment

We present the capabilities of the CMS experiment to explore the heavy-ion physics program offered by the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The prime goal of this research is to test the fundamental theory of the strong interaction (QCD) in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Olga Kodolova , Michael Murray

Hadron Collider Searches for Diboson Resonances

This review covers results of searches for new elementary particles that decay into boson pairs (dibosons), performed at the CERN Large Hadron Collider in proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at 7-, 8-,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-02-05 Tommaso Dorigo

Development of hollow electron beams for proton and ion collimation

Magnetically confined hollow electron beams for controlled halo removal in high-energy colliders such as the Tevatron or the LHC may extend traditional collimation systems beyond the intensity limits imposed by tolerable material damage.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-02-02 G. Stancari , A. I. Drozhdin , G. Kuznetsov , V. Shiltsev , D. A. Still , A. Valishev , L. G. Vorobiev , R. Assmann , A. Kabantsev