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For the first time, an international team of scientists have found evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from NGC 1068, also known as Messier 77, an active galaxy in the constellation Cetus and one of the most familiar and well-studied galaxies to date. First spotted in 1780, this galaxy, located 47 million light-years away from us, […]

Prof. Emeritus Frank Paul Calaprice, Princeton University, has been awarded the prestigious Bethe prize for 2023. “For pioneering work on large-scale ultra-low-background detectors, specifically Borexino, measuring the complete spectroscopy of solar neutrinos, culminating in observation of CNO neutrinos, thus experimentally proving operation of all the nuclear-energy driving reactions of stellar evolution.” Frank Calaprice earned his

Stavros Katsanevas, born in Athens in 1953, died on 27 November 2022. He is known as a tireless proponent of astroparticle physics in all his functions, whether as deputy director of the French IN2P3, director of the APC in Paris or director of the EGO in Pisa. He has promoted the European and global coordination

In summer 2022, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) released the layouts that define the geographical position of the elements that will compose the two CTAO arrays, including the telescopes, calibration systems and atmospheric characterization devices. The distribution considers the approved number of telescopes within the so-called Alpha Configuration: 13 telescopes (four Large-Sized Telescopes, LST,

The second JENAS, Joint ECFA (European Committee for Future Accelerators) – NuPECC (Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee) – APPEC (AstroParticle Physics European Consortium) Seminar was held in May 2022 in the auditorium of CSIC in Madrid: see https://indico.cern.ch/event/1040535/. For three days members of the European astroparticle, nuclear and particle physics communities presented their overlapping challenges and strategies.

On 18th and 19th of July 2022 a hybrid meeting of the APPEC General Assembly took place in Vienna, Austria. At this occasion we could welcome two new APPEC members: The Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), represented in the GA by Josef Pradler and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), with Fedor Danevich

NuPECC, the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee, calls for inuput for the NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024. Please find below a message from the NuPECC LRP2024 Steering Committee and note that it explicitly mentioned that synergies with astroparticle physics are being considered. “NuPECC is launching the process of creating a new Long Range Plan (LRP)

Scientists from the leading dark matter experiments came together in June at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, joining forces to design and build a future dark matter detector within the XLZD consortium. The XENON and LUX-ZEPLIN collaborations currently each operate some of the most sensitive experiments ever built to detect rare particle interactions, such as

The XII symposium of the Einstein Telescope (ET) took place in Budapest, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, on the 7th – 8th of June. The ET scientific community met in Budapest for a crucial step in the long Einstein Telescope journey: the formal establishment of the ET Collaboration. More than 400 scientists, out of

On July 22nd during the IDM 2022 Conference (https://indico.cern.ch/event/922783/) held in Vienna, the XENONnT Collaboration announced its first results on Electron Recoils events. The XENONnT detector at the Gran Sasso Laboratory in Italy replaces the previous one, XENON1T. XENONnT aimed not only to enlarge the detector mass (5.9 t active volume from 2 t) but