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24 June 2015 CERN Press Office – LHC experiments join forces to zoom in on the Higgs boson

16 March 2015 National Science Foundation – U.S., Mexico to inaugurate facility to detect gamma rays, probe universe’s most energetic phenomena

24 June 2015 University of Maryland – Premier New Gamma Ray Observatory Begins Operation

11 March 2015 AT CERN, GLOBE OF SCIENCE AND INNOVATION When : Thursday, 12 March from 2.30 to 3.30pm (CET) – Open seating as from 2.15pm Speakers : CERN’s Director General, Rolf Heuer and Director of Accelerators, Frédérick Bordry, and representatives of the LHC experiments CERN is pleased to invite you to the above press

11 March 2015 MAGIC project leader at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich, and spokesperson of the MAGIC Collaboration. You are Project Leader and Spokesperson for the MAGIC collaboration. What are the major goals and research directions of the collaboration? The Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique (IACT) has made giant steps – in fact it became a

11 March 2015 by Razmik Mirzoyan MAGIC project leader at the Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, and spokesperson of the MAGIC Collaboration Both MAGIC telescopes were upgraded about 2.5 years ago and now they are running with 1039 fine pixel (0.10°) cameras in the coincidence (stereo) mode. The standard trigger provides an energy threshold

24 June 2015 Senior Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Dept. of Physics, University of Liverpool and the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology, UK Could you give a brief overview of SiPM applications? The first project on Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) applications were conducted by MEPhI-Pulsar-ITEP-DESY team in 2003-2005 where a few thousand SiPMs

11 March 2015 by Sergey Vinogradov Senior Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Dept. of Physics, University of Liverpool and the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology, UK Detection of optical light pulses with photon number resolution starting from single photons, was an ultimate goal of R&D in photodetectors for more than half a

10 March 2015 University of Cambridge – Welcome to the neighbourhood: new dwarf galaxies discovered in orbit around the Milky Way