The nuclear, particle and astroparticle physics communities, represented by the three committees/ consortia NuPECC, ECFA and APPEC want to join their forces not only to solve the questions on the smallest and the largest structures in nature but also to improve on diversity, working conditions and societal impact. The Deliberation document on the 2020 Update […]
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The Pierre Auger Collaboration has reported a measurement of the spectrum of cosmic-rays above 2.5 x 1018 eV made with unprecedented precision. A new spectral feature has been identified just above 1019 eV which is found to be independent of the direction from which the particles arrive. Taken together, the observations exclude the hypothesis that
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Interview about the Gravitational Wave GW190521, detected by Virgo and LIGO, with Giovanni Losurdo On 2 September the Virgo and LIGO collaborations published their discovery of the most massive Black Hole ever measured with Gravitational Waves. This is another huge milestone in the field of Gravitational Wave observations. The scientists observed the merging of two
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On 16 October REINFORCE (Research Infrastructures FOR citizens in Europe) organizes a webinar for potential citizen scientists, Gravitational Wave Astronomy researchers and academics, members of the physics and astronomy community and educators. The webinar aims to give an overview of the first of REINFORCE Large Scale Citizen Science demonstrators which are the key vehicles that
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Interview on the status of the Einstein Telescope with Michele Punturo and Frank Linde During the last year the Einstein Telescope (ET) Collaboration was busy with the preparation for an ESFRI Roadmap proposal which was just submitted. This is an enormously important step for the realization of the project and was a lot of work
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Virgo and LIGO have announced the detection of an extraordinarily massive merging binary system: two black holes of 66 and 85 solar masses, which generated a final black hole of around 142 solar masses. The remnant black hole is the most massive ever detected with gravitational waves. It lies in a range of mass (from
Virgo and LIGO unveil new and unexpected black hole populations Read More »
The nature of dark matter (DM), an invisible substance which constitutes 85% of matter in the observable universe, is one of the greatest puzzles in cosmology and astroparticle physics today. The most compelling and simplest solution is that DM is made of a new type of fundamental particle, not yet observed due to its incredibly
Assembling the XENONnT Dark Matter Detector during Covid-19 Times Read More »
Interview on Gravitational Waves Expression of Interest with Tetyana Galatyuk and Paolo Pani In response to the JENAS call the Gravitational Wave Community prepared an open Expression of Interest on “Gravitational Wave Probes of Fundamental Physics”. Already two weeks after the announcement, the list of endorses counted over 500 people. Tetyana Galatyuk and Paolo Pani,
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Neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) is a crucial process in particle physics and cosmology. It can be conceived as an inclusive test of “creation of leptons” (leptons are produced with no counterpart in terms of antileptons, and lepton number violation occurs) and, more generally, as “creation of matter” (particles are produced with no counterpart in
CUPID-Mo: a new world leading limit for neutrinoless double beta decay of 100Mo Read More »
Between January and February 2020, the prototype Large-Sized Telescope (LST), the LST-1, observed the Crab Pulsar, the neutron star at the centre of the Crab Nebula. The telescope, which is being commissioned on the CTA-North site on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands and which just passed its Critical Design Review, was
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