In July 2021, the open data group of the CMS experiment conducted the second CMS open data workshop aimed at physicists interested in research use of these unique public data. In the spirit of...

How far can we keep splitting them? Would there be a moment in history that we find the “Atomos” which is truly “indivisible”? What would it mean? Would it be the instant that we...

Biggest black hole merger so far Great excitement has been generated by the recent publication by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration (LVC) of a gravitational wave burst interpreted as a merger of black holes with masses...

The excellent infrastructure of HIP Detector Laboratory serves well for introducing particle physics and its instrumentation for children and youth. Every year, we provide “road-shows” in public events organized by the University, such as...

We are surrounded by them, composed of them, constantly interacting with them. However with their complex structure and behaviour, protons are still covering a large fraction of the uncharted territory of modern particle physics....

Discovery of the Higgs particles in 2012 became possible because of the tremendous international collaborative effort of a large group of high-energy particle and accelerator physicists and engineers, who enabled the construction of the...

Greetings from inside the closed borders of the Uusimaa region in southern Finland! We are living in exceptional times all around the world due to the coronavirus pandemic. The travel restrictions between and within...

The European project CompactLight (XLS) (http://www.compactlight.eu) is about to enter its third and last year of funding. We intend to design a hard X-ray Free-Electron-Laser (FEL) facility beyond today’s state of the art, using...

Visit CERN or ESRF in summer 2020? Have a look the three-month summer job positions at CERN or ESRF, and also the one-week intensive course CERN Bootcamp (5 ECTS at UH, students of all...

I have just finished yet another course at the university. Well ok, it is about 15 years if I recall correctly since obtaining previous credits and this time I did not have much to...

July 2019. After a hasty breakfast, scientists from STUK, IAEA and HIP (i.e. me), and a few observers from the European Commission, leave their hotels in Rauma at 6:30 to meet up at the...

Helsinki Institute of Physics is advancing the industrial collaboration and technology development in Finnish companies that seek to work in collaboration with CERN. The Institute’s Business Development Team has been actively supporting, in close...

In this blog post, I am going to take you on a short tour of some of the theoretical particle physics work that goes on at HIP. There is so much work going on,...

suomeksi The rather ascetic name of HIP common blog reflects our aim of broadly narrating the research and activities of Helsinki Institute of Physics, without restrictions on the particular content. Although the posts will...