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...
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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...
On CMS open data, and numbers big and small
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...
The Curious Journey of a Robotics Engineer to the Most Exciting Research Facility on This Planet.
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...
The future of physics will be seen with gravitational waves
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...
In summer 2020, HIP Detector Laboratory had first-ever remote-working summer trainees
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...
Central exclusive physics at LHC: a look forward
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....
Materials for future particle colliders
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...
Corona considerations
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...
HIP and CompactLight
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...
Summer jobs at CERN/ESRF and CERN Bootcamp
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...
How to engage the brightest talents in science
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...
Looking inside spent nuclear fuel
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...
Physics research opens new collaboration opportunities for Finnish companies
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...
Beyond the Higgs [theoretical particle physics @HIP]
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,...
