On July 7th the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Collaboration has released their first results on searching for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), a candidate for dark matter. LZ is a detector installed at about 1500 m below ground in the SURF underground laboratory in South Dakota in the US (https://www.sanfordlab.org). The LZ is an international Collaboration with […]
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A Workshop on EU Underground Laboratories was held at LNGS on 28-29 April. The Workshop was jointly organized by LNGS and APPEC (https://agenda.infn.it/event/30742/). The purpose of the Workshop was to facilitate and promote an executive network between Underground Laboratories in Europe to better face next generation experiments. Contributions from LNGS (Italy), LSC (Spain), LSM and LSBB
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The aim of this ECFA-NuPECC-APPEC working group is to find ways to improve the recognition of individual achievements in large collaborations. The working group was installed in July 2019 in Ghent. It continues previous work by ECFA, which among other activities performed a community-wide survey in 2018. Meetings with the collaborations were held separately for
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LISA, the future gravitational wave observatory in space, has passed major milestones and is expected to fly in the mid-2030s. Recent developments of LISA include the review of technologies and planning according to ESA´s standard development logic, and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Decadal Review. LISA has successfully mastered both milestones: Mission Formulation Review
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On the 9th and 10th of June about 100 Astroparticle Physicists met in Berlin to discuss the Midterm review of the European Astroparticle Physics Strategy 2017-2026. The aim of the Town Meeting was to receive a final feedback from the community on the implementation process of the Astroparticle Physics Strategy with respect to the international
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Interview with Christian Spiering Christian Spiering has worked in Russia for more than four years in the 1970s and has collaborated with Russian researchers for almost fifty years. Russia with its language, its literature and its people became a kind of second cultural home for him. In the early APPEC/ASPERA period he chaired several roadmap
In a publication in Science, the H.E.S.S. collaboration has for the first time described the time sequence of the acceleration process in a nova. Novae are a source of high-energy particles and photons and RS Ophiuchi (RS Oph) is a recurrent nova system comprising a white dwarf and a companion red giant star. RS Ophiuchi
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The international KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) located at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has now been the first to constrain the mass of neutrinos to less 1 electron volt (eV) and, hence, has broken an important “barrier“ in neutrino physics. From the data recently published in Nature Physics, a new upper limit of 0.8
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After being canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions, the 2021 edition of the Paris-Saclay Astroparticle Symposium was organised from October 18 to November 26, 2021 at the Institut Pascal of the Paris-Saclay university. The organisation of this event was made possible thanks to support from P2IO, the P2I graduate school of the University of
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The “Low-latency alerts and data analysis for Multi-messenger Astrophysics workshop”, organized with the support of the H2020 funded project AHEAD2020, the APPEC consortium, IN2P3, APC Laboratory and EGO was held on 13-14 January online. The workshop, the first of a series, gathered over 150 participants and aimed to provide an overview of the existing and
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