Here you find current News from the Laboratory for Particle Physics. For scientific highlights, please see these pages.
Souder sur une grande scène
Ceux qui grimpent sur ce podium font partie des meilleurs talents professionnels du monde. Melvin Deubelbeiss, électronicien au PSI, a remporté la médaille d’argent aux WorldSkills 2024.
The Zuoz school’s 26th edition
26th Zuoz Summer School on particle physics took place at the Lyceum Alpinum with close to 100 participants.
Un plan pour la plus grande machine du monde
Entretien avec Lea Caminada, cheffe du groupe Physique des hautes énergies au PSI, concernant le potentiel du prochain grand projet au CERN.
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.
Protons et autres particules: l’installation HIPA a 50 ans
Depuis 1974, HIPA accélère des protons pour la recherche.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Une mission sur Jupiter pour explorer les conditions favorables à la vie
Ganymède, Callisto et Europe sont trois lunes glacées de Jupiter et la destination de la mission de l’ESA, qui emporte à bord un détecteur high-tech du PSI.
Plus de lumière dans l’obscurité
Au PSI, les chercheurs veulent combler les dernières lacunes du modèle standard de la physique à l'aide des grandes installations de recherche.
Double upgrade pour l’accélérateur de protons
Dès 2025, HIPA doit bénéficier d’un double upgrade. Les préparatifs à cet effet sont en cours.
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.
Médaille d’argent en électronique pour Mario Liechti
Électronicien au PSI, Mario Liechti s’est classé deuxième au championnat mondial des métiers non académiques.
Die Goldmedaille und ein Händedruck vom Bundesrat
SwissSkills kürt den PSI-Elektroniker Melvin Deubelbeiss zum besten Lehrabgänger seines Fachs.
Seeking the sensational on a small scale
The Swiss Research Magazine 'Horizons' features particle physics performed at PSI.
Financement de 2 millions pour la quête d’une nouvelle physique
Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg mettra sur pied une expérience inédite à une ligne de faisceau de muons du PSI.
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.
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.
Silver medal at the EuroSkills
Silver medal for Mario Liechti at the EuroSkills in Graz, Austria.
CHRISP — All the key results in one place
A specialSciPost volume, entitled “Review of Particle Physics at PSI”, has recently been completed.
L’Infrastructure suisse pour la physique des particules CHRISP
Les chercheurs recherchent les écarts par rapport au modèle standard actuel de la physique et veulent savoir comment notre univers est construit.
La taille du noyau d’hélium a été mesurée avec une précision inégalée
Dans le cadre d’expériences conduites à l’Institut Paul Scherrer PSI, une collaboration internationale de recherche a mesuré le rayon du noyau de l’atome d’hélium de manière cinq fois plus précise que tous les chercheurs avant elle. Ce nouveau résultat permet de tester certaines théories fondamentales en physique.
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)
Isolé du monde par blindage magnétique
A l’Institut Paul Scherrer PSI, des chercheurs ont construit une chambre magnétiquement isolée du reste du monde dont les performances sont uniques au niveau planétaire. Leur objectif est de résoudre l’une des dernières énigmes sur l’origine de la matière et de répondre à la question fondamentale: pourquoi la matière, et par conséquent l’homme, existent-ils au sein de l’univers?
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”.
On the winners’ podium at the SwissSkills professional championships
With Mario Liechti (gold) and Melvin Deubelbeiss (bronze) two of our electronics apprentices achieved a place on the winners’ podium at the SwissSkills 2020. The SwissSkills are the Swiss professional championships organized by the leading industry associations. The final competition took place October 27 - 30, 2020 at Schindler Elevators in Ebikon.
Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione grant for Franziska Hagelstein
Franziska Hagelstein has been awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione grant with PSI as host institution. She joined the particle theory group (NUM, Laboratory of Particle Physics LTP) in October 2020. In the near future she will be accompanied by a PhD student.
Mu3e magnet arrived at PSI
After almost three years of planning, design and construction, the 31-ton, 2.6 Tesla superconducting magnet for the Mu3e experiment arrived today at PSI. The magnet delivery is an important milestone in the Mu3e experiment at the Laboratory of Particle Physics LTP, which will search for New Physics in muon decays over the next years.