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NEMO 3: the goals, results and legacy Jan 25, 2012

Impressive headway in the study of double beta decay.

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Latest issue

CERN Courier
January/February 2012
Volume 52 Issue 1

Features

Pursuit of deconfinement returns to the SPS

On the trail from the SPS to RHIC to the LHC – and back to the SPS.

SuperKEKB goes in hunt of flavour at the terascale

KEK’s B-factory upgrade promises a 40-fold increase in luminosity.

The SuperB approach to high luminosity

Innovation at the next-generation B factory to be built in Italy.

Accelerating sustainability in large-scale facilities

Report on a workshop where experts shared ideas for the future.

NEMO 3: the goals, results and legacy

Impressive headway in the study of double beta decay.

Isotope toolbox turns 10

REX-ISOLDE provides a range of radioactive ion beams.

Regulars

Faces and Places

EPS, France, Japan and the US honour physicists • Ent becomes associate director at Jefferson Lab • CERN celebrates the ‘Rutherford centenary’ • Merger creates new institute for nuclear research • First artist in residence at CERN starts in March • Greenberg reaches 80 as Matveev passes 70 •New school series in Asia-Pacific region • School-time in Heidelberg • The building blocks of physics at CERN • Visits

Obituaries

Kei-Ichi Kuroda 1930–2011 • Per Dahl 1932–2011

Bookshelf

The Infinity Puzzle: How the quest to understand quantum field theory led to extraordinary science, high politics and the world’s most expensive experiment • Risk – A very short Introduction • Books received

Viewpoint: Towards a more confident future

Colin Carlile argues the case for collaboration and science as drivers of confidence – something that is surely needed in 2012.

White papers

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Four approaches enable gap-free acquisition of continuous and triggered signals

Numerous test scenarios require gap-free or continuous acquisition of digitized data for minutes, hours or days.


Modelling and analysis of acoustic emissions and structural vibration in a wind turbine

The onshore wind turbine industry must overcome many technical, commercial, and environmental difficulties.


Multiphysics simulation software

The fusion of faster hardware and smarter algorithms opens up new opportunities for multiphysics modelling and simulation of the real world.


Agilent Technologies New Application Note Describes How to Reveal Greater Detail in Waveform Measurements

A white paper from Agilent Technologies.