Lab News

Here you find current News from the Laboratory for Particle Physics. For scientific highlights, please see these pages.

Javier Mazzitelli

2024 Guido Altarelli Award to Javier Mazzitelli

The Guido Altarelli Award honours the memory of the late Guido Altarelli, one of the founding fathers of QCD, an outstanding communicator of particle physics, and a mentor and strong supporter of Junior Scientists. 

Javier Mazzitelli has been awarded the 2024 Guido Altarelli Award in acknowledgement of his distinguished contributions to the field of particle physics. The Guido Altarelli Award is awarded every year to junior scientists for outstanding scientific contributions to the fields covered by the DIS Conference series. 

MEG-II

In the search for New Physics at the Intensity Frontier: a first result from the MEG II experiment

In a special seminar at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Switzerland, the MEG II collaboration presented on October 20th its first results, based on data collected in 2021. The results are reported on a paper published on arXiv and submitted to the European Journal of Physics C.

BRIDGE workshop participants

Japanese – Swiss BRIDGE Workshop at PSI

BRIDGE stands for Bridging Research Innovations in Diverse muon and neutron science by GEneral collaboration between Japan and Switzerland. After a first remote edition of this new workshop series in 2022, an in-person BRIDGE workshop took place at PSI, October 18-20, 2023.

SwissSkills Medal winners

PSI medal winners at SwissSkills Championships 2023

At the recent SwissSkills Championships 2023 for apprentices in Sindex/BE Melvin Deubelbeiss and Andrin Kästli from the electronics apprenticeship group in NUM/LTP have won two medals: Andrin became third, won a bronze medal and Melvin even won the championship and was honored by the gold medal. 

Stefan Ritt

Shea Distinguished Member Award of IEEE NPSS to Stefan Ritt

The Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society of IEEE acknowledges the outstanding contributions of Dr. Stefan Ritt in terms of technological developments and services to the NPSS community with the 2023 Richard F. Shea Distinguished Member Award. 

Marino Missiroli

Marino Missiroli elected Trigger Coordinator of the CMS experiment at CERN

Marino Missiroli, a postdoctoral researcher in the High-Energy Particle Physics group of the Laboratory for Particle Physics (LTP) in NUM, will join the management team of the CMS experiment at CERN as Trigger Co-Coordinator in September 2023.

Harald Ita

Harald Ita appointed Associate Professor ad personam at University of Zurich

Harald Ita, currently senior scientist at the Laboratory for Particle Physics at NUM/PSI was appointed as Associate Professor ad personam at UZH Zurich. Harald is an international acclaimed researcher in the field of theoretical high-energy particle physics.

UCN LTP

Seeking the sensational on a small scale

The Swiss Research Magazine 'Horizons' features particle physics performed at PSI.

Aldo Antognini

Aldo Antognini Adjunct Professor at ETHZ

Aldo Antognini, currently lecturer and senior scientist at both ETH Zurich and the Laboratory for Particle Physics at NUM/PSI was awarded the title of Adjunct Professor at ETH Zurich.

IMPACT

Update on the Status of HIMB

A workshop to discuss and further develop the science case for the High Intensity Muon Beams (HIMB) has been held.

 

Mario Liechti at the EuroSkills

Silver medal at the EuroSkills

Silver medal for Mario Liechti at the EuroSkills in Graz, Austria.

 

SciPost

CHRISP — All the key results in one place

A specialSciPost volume, entitled “Review of Particle Physics at PSI”, has recently been completed.

 

n2EDM Shielding Room

Magnetically shielded from the rest of the world

The shielding room in which the n2EDM experiment is expected to clarify whether the neutron has a measurable electric dipole moment or not.

(Photo: Paul Scherrer Institute/Markus Fischer)

 

Stefan Ritt

Prestigious IEEE award for Stefan Ritt

Stefan Ritt, leader of the Muon Physics group at the Laboratory for Particle Physics, has received today the prestigious IEEE Emilio Gatti Radiation Instrumentation Technical Achievement Award, for "contributions to the development and democratization of ultra-high-speed digitizers”.