HIP Summer traditions
Helsinki Institute of Physics HIP has two traditional communal ways of welcoming summer – a grill party for the HIP CERN summer trainees at CERN and a summer trip for the HIP community in...
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COSINUS – Getting ready to search for dark matter
There is also a Finnish version available (machine translated, ChatGPT). In an earlier blog post (in Finnish) I introduced the basics of dark matter and the direct detection experiments that are looking for signals...
The Kilpisjärvi Effect: How Wonders of Nature and Time Spent Together Are Accelerating CMS Physics in Helsinki
There is also a Finnish version available (DeepL translated). On Sunday evening of March 4th, 15 members of the HIP CMS Programme set off on a train towards Kolari, with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station...
The HIP new dCache disk storage
Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) participates in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments ALICE, CMS and TOTEM. HIP collaborates with CSC – IT Center for Science on providing Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) resources....
Superfluid Helium 3 and the search for new physics
HIP members are working with a UK-based collaboration in a new project to use superfluid helium as laboratory testbed for cosmology. The collaboration, Quantum-Enhanced Superfluid Technology for Dark Matter and Cosmology (QUEST-DMC), exploits the...
Beyond the Standard Model? Neutrinos!
Neutrinos were ”invented” by Pauli in 1930 as a ”desperate remedy” to explain the beta-decay spectrum without giving up energy conservation. That was a time when inventing particles was almost sinful, and Pauli himself...
The impact of our research on the climate crisis
In summer 2023 the average daily sea surface temperature was 0.8°C above the mean for this time of the year (more than 4σ deviation), while the Antarctic ice extent was at its lowest ever...
Fighting the Equality Paradox in Finnish Science
(NUTS, Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, is an EU standard referencing the administrative divisions of counties) Finland is one of the most equal countries in the world and in the European Union. However,...
I didn’t know a physicist could look like you!
In July 2016, I had the privilege of participating as a student in the African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications (ASP) held in Kigali, Rwanda. It was there that I had a lot...
SPEDE – novel instrument to probe exotic nuclei
CERN restaurant #1, November 2009. I sat down with Professors Rauno Julin (University of Jyväskylä) and Peter Butler (University of Liverpool, UK) to discuss about a research idea employing post-accelerated beams at ISOLDE, CERN....
Cotutelle and collaboration agreement within HIP and CEA for nuclear material research
Securing sufficient and environmentally sustainable electricity production is one of the main sustainable development challenges for our future. European’s electricity production relies on multiple sources including nuclear power. In particular, four nuclear reactors situated...
Quantum physics and technologies: it’s time to inform society, at large.
Nowadays, when people talk or write about quantum technologies, they mean a wide range of devices that function, in their essence, by exploiting quantum effects. Indeed, the progress made in this field has been...
CERN, Finland and International relations
Basic physics research is global in nature. It establishes laws that are valid everywhere on Earth, and apparently in the whole Universe. The research is mostly not driven by short term commercial or military...
Ramping up towards LHC Run 3
The CMS experiment is one of the four large experiments at the LHC. Since the beginning of data-taking in 2010, the CMS Collaboration has published more than 1100 scientific papers on a highly diverse...
The discovery of the Odderon
Elementary particle physics is about understanding the smallest constituents of matter and their interactions. To do so larger and larger particle colliders are being built to probe the structure of matter at smaller and...
