On the 18th and 19th of June the APPEC Scientific Advisory Committee came together at CERN. The purpose of the meeting was to bring everyone up to date and to discuss and distribute future tasks. This includes the activities of the neutrinoless double beta decay committee, who is currently planning an APPEC community meeting on
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On the 10th of July the European Center for Astro Particle Theory, EuCAPT was officially launched at CERN, which is also the first central hub for the next 5 years. The first director is Gianfranco Bertone who is chairing a steering committee of 12 partners. The aim of EuCAPT is to coordinate and favour the
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Interview with Silvia Pascoli about the upcoming meeting and the roadmap on neutrinoless double beta decay One of the recommendations on the neutrinos in the APPEC Roadmap sounds: ‘APPEC strongly supports the present range of direct neutrino-mass measurements and searches for neutrinoless double-beta decay. Guided by the results of experiments currently in operation and in consultation
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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, which in 2017 found probable evidence of a first source of high-energy cosmic neutrinos, is now being expanded into a neutrino laboratory. The plans to extend the IceCube detector to lower energies in order to precisely measure the properties of neutrinos have now been approved by the
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The meeting “Towards the Coordination of the European CMB program”, September 12-13, 2019 at the AstroParticle/Cosmology (APC) Labs in Paris, France, will gather experiment builders, observers and agency representatives in a continuing effort to chart the necessary steps towards European coordination on CMB experiments, including collaboration in technology development, and seeking synergy with similar efforts
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The APPEC Community Meeting on Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay will take place on 31 October 2019 at the Hallam Conference Centre, London, UK. This meeting aims at discussing and collecting the input of the community on the roadmap document (to follow) prepared by the Double Beta Decay APPEC Committee for the APPEC SAC on the
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Interview with Paschal Coyle on the recent deployment campaign for KM3NeT During the last month Paschal Coyle and his colleagues from the deployment team were busy installing additional Detection Units (DUs) in the Mediterranean Sea. The most recent campaign was from 29th of June until 1st of July 2019 and since then the KM3NeT/ORCA deep-sea
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After a series of sea operations this year, the most recent of which was 29 June-1 July 2019, the KM3NeT/ORCA deep-sea neutrino detector is now continuously taking data with its first four neutrino detection units. Located in the Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 2437 m and 40 km offshore from Toulon, France, the ORCA
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Physics Nobel Prize winner Takaaki Kajita officially launches the particle accelerator at Dresdner Felsenkeller. What is happening inside the sun and the countless other stars of the universe? This question concerns scientists worldwide. After two years of construction, a new research facility has now been inaugurated: On 4 July, the Felsenkeller Laboratory jointly built by
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The Baksan Neutrino Observatory (BNO) of the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences started the BEST (Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions) experiment with a 51Cr artificial electron neutrino source to search for the transitions of electron neutrinos to sterile states on very short baseline. The 51Cr source with an estimated activity
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