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CAEN Educational is flying up Update 26/01/2020

21/01/2020 by CAEN

In Château-d’Oex on January 25th, Hans Peter Beck (University of Bern and Fribourg, and CERN) will repeat with some of his students the balloon flight of Albert Gockel from 1909 (with modern equipment using CAEN Cosmic Hunter), and measure cosmic rays.

Students from Uni Fribourg are estimating and then measuring the flux of cosmic muons  through a telescope that will be set up with the Cosmic Hunter (adding spacers between tiles), in function  of altitude under 90° and 45° up to 6000m.
Temperature will be stabilised in  a thermobox, GPS data and air pressure  will be constantly measured. Data will be analysed and compared with their estimations.

More information about Hot Air Balloons and cosmic rays can be found here

Brochure of the event

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CAEN Educational is flying up Update 26/01/2020

42nd International Balloon Festival – 26th January, 2nd February

This edition will be placed under the sign of a birthday: 20 years ago, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones took off from Château-d’Oex to make this fabulous trip, the round-the-world trip in a non-stop balloon, taking with them the name of Château-d’Oex beyond the European continent.
The fame of this event has been built from year to year thanks to many pilots, crews, volunteers, partners, all driven by the passion for the ball by making available, without reserve, their time, their high skills so that, each year, radiates this exceptional flight site. We would like to warmly thank all those involved from the start and up to this day in this unique aerostatic adventure.
The organizing committee has the important task of perpetuating and consolidate the International Balloon Festival through the development of an aerostatic competence center that lives up to its strong values of passion, know-how and authenticity. This, with the vision of developing and transmitting the magic of balloon flight to a new generation of pilots and a large audience, in an exceptional alpine flight site.

Update 26/01/2020

Hans Peter Beck, full professor @ University of Bern · Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, told us how the event was and his flight on the baloon with their student (taking some wonderful pictures)

“The Cosmic Hunter worked very well. We put it into a box and maintained temperature stable at 20°C.
We measured altitude, pressure, temperature and humidity (in- and outside the box) about every 2 seconds.”

We then merged these measures with the data acquired from the Cosmic hunter creating a new measurement data-base that contained the Cosmic Hunter data, associated with the average altitude, average temperature, etc.

“It was a great experience, and I really enjoyed flying in a balloon at 4000m altitude. We may have the chance for a flight up to 6000m later this week – depending on weather conditions improving.”

CAEN would like to thank Hans Peter for his willingness and passion giving us the chance to partecipate at this event!
“La Liberté” Swiss newspaper talk about this physics experience in this article

Presentation by Hans Peter Beck to the commemorative balloon flight of Gockel: Pioneers of Cosmic Rays

Pioneers of cosmic rays

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Read full article on CERN COURIER March/April 2020 pp.11

CERN Courier – digital edition

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CAEN is member of HiPEAC Project

16/01/2020 by CAEN

CAEN is proud to be a member of HiPEAC Network which provided a hub for European researchers and industry representatives in computing systems.

About HiPEAC
HiPEAC (High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation) is the premier focal point for networking, dissemination, training, and collaboration activities in Europe for researchers, industry, and policy related to computing systems. Today, its network, the biggest of its kind in Europe, numbers over 2,000 specialists.
HiPEAC’s mission is to advance computer architecture and computing systems research and development as a discipline in Europe.

Check the HiPEAC Info magazine for the latest news – quarterly publication (we are on page 22 of this issue)

More information about HiPEAC Network Project can be found here

CAEN has joined to Eduroam Network as Resource Provider

11/11/2019 by CAEN

CAEN has joined, as a Resource Provider, the EDUROAM Federation (EDUcation ROAMing) with its wireless network, which aims to offer all users of participating organizations easy and secure wireless access to the Internet.

On the one hand this service facilitates the free mobility of students, teachers and researchers, on the other it marks an important step in the process of progressive opening of the University network at international level. A secure access – based on the username and password strictly controlled by the institution of belonging – is combined with the freedom of access to the wireless network of all the federated institutions, across more than 100 countries.

More information about EDUROAM Federation can be found here

Eduroam Network across countries, 2019 | eduroam.org/about

NA62 spots two potential instances of rare particle decay

26/09/2019 by CAEN

On September 23^rd 2019, the NA62 experiment at CERN announced the measurement of other two K⁺ → π⁺ ν ν decays after the first one announced back in 2018 (NA62 sees hints of rare kaon decay).

These measurements are useful to shine light on dark matter, as hints of new physics beyond standard model can hide in rare decays as the charged kaon (K⁺) been investigated by NA62. The Standard Model predicts a very small fraction of K⁺ to decay into a positively charged pion and a neutrino-antineutrino pair, therefore finding deviation on this well predicted branching ratio can point to new particles and perhaps discover more about the nature of dark matter.

So far NA62 has measured three of these decays in the dataset collected in 2016 and 2017, even if they seem few the physicists were already able to measure the K⁺ → π⁺ ν ν branching ration with unprecedented precision and put more stringent limit on new physics.

CAEN has contributed to NA62 in many different ways from the very first phases with dedicated R&D and various other products, including power supplies (PMT PS system for NA62) and data acquisition system for the Liquid Krypton Calorimeter (CREAM).

NA62 spots two potential instances of rare particle decay gallery media — Figure 1.1 – Calorimeter REAdout Modules (CREAM) for the NA62 high resolution Liquid Krypton Calorimeter (LKr);

CAEN Educational for young researchers @ European Space Agency

19/07/2019 by CAEN

The EIROforum School on Instrumentation (ESI) is a biennial event, jointly organized by the Instrumentation Working Group of the EIROforum organizations. The objective of ESI is to teach the basic principles of instrumentation to young researchers (PhD students, postdocs) and engineers from the EIRO organizations, companies, and institutes from Europe and beyond.
The sixth school (ESI 2019) took place from 13-17 May 2019 at ESA/ESTEC in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

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In summary

73 young professionals coming from all over Europe attended the school.
They contributed to the school scientific programme with posters and flash presentations of 2 minutes.
The school core programme comprised more than 25 talks on Particle Physics, Nuclear Fusion, X-ray Free-electron Laser, Synchrotron Radiation, Molecular Biology, Space and Astronomy instrumentations.
More than 20 lecturers coming from the EIROforum organizations contributed to this scientific programme.
The school highlight was an afternoon dedicated to Artificial Intelligence with ESA and CERN contributions including hands-on exercises, jointly organized with IT EIROforum working group.
The last day was a full project day during which teams collaborated and learned about technology transfer, jointly organized with Innovation Management and Knowledge / Technology Transfer (IMKTT) working group.

ESI2019 has been financially supported by 5 industrial sponsors and instrumentation leaders: CAEN, DECTRIS, Kuraray, HAMAMATSU and Teledyne-e2v.

The detailed programme (including lectures’ title and lecturers) together with the presentations are available online at this link: https://indico.cern.ch/event/777129/timetable/#20190513.detailed

More info about the event: https://www.eiroforum.org/event/6th-eiroforum-school-on-instrumentation/

CAEN Educational Kit available here

MICADO, European Project for The Monitoring of Radioactive Waste, Kicks Off

06/06/2019 by CAEN

Standardize the management of radioactive waste, starting from their non-destructive characterization to transport, storage and real-time monitoring. This is the objective of the MICADO Project (Measurement and Instrumentation for Cleaning and Decommissioning Operations), started on June 3, thanks to Euratom funding, and to the synergy between 8 European partners with solid experience in the field of radioactive waste, nuclear techniques, electronics and information technology.

CAEN is the coordinator of the project and will contribute with more than 40 years of experience in the field of nuclear electronics and a growing presence in the market of complete measurement systems, it will be joined by other to renowned Italian research institutions INFN and ENEA, which have specific expertise on radiation detection and techniques for radioactive material management. The international partners are ORANO and CEA for France, a large company leader in the nuclear energy sector and a public institution which has lead the field of nuclear research in France for years, SCK-CEN for Belgium and CTU for the Czech Republic are two other research institutes whit a solid expertise in nuclear management and algorithm development, finally XIE for Germany that is another SME with experience in X-ray detection.

MICADO provides a complete digitalization process that will facilitate and harmonize all the methods used in the field for waste management as well as for the dismantling and decommissioning (D&D) of nuclear plants. To date, in fact, there is no single, consistent and linear solution to characterize various types of radioactive materials, just as there is no integrated solution for digitizing the enormous amount of data produced. The Digi-Waste RCMS solution proposed in the MICADO project will produce a modular hardware and software system to unify and standardize procedures and methods for non-destructive characterization and monitoring of nuclear waste, proposing itself as an international reference for all nuclear operators, research laboratories and the security authorities, facilitating the exchange of fundamental and often critical information.

Website: www.micado-project.eu

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 innovation action programme under grant agreement No 847641. This text reflects only the author’s views and the Commission is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

Starting date: June 2019
Ending date: May 2022

The MICADO consortium consists of 8 partners from 5 European countries counting Research Institutes, SMEs and Large companies. The project is expected to last 36 months with a budget of EUR 5 million (EU contribution: EUR 4.5 million).