LEP was a 27km circular electron-positron collider at CERN. After it was retired and dismantled in 2001, some of its 128 spherical accelerating RF cavities were refurbished into Spherical Proportional Counters. One is currently in Saclay, another is in Thessaloniki, and a third has come to Kingston after spending a few years in China. This 130cm copper sphere is similar in size to the future SNOLAB detector. It will allow us to do full size experiments, and it is already making our neighbouring labs jealous…
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Date Published: Jan 25, 2023
Newest NEWS-G members 2023
Jon Clarke, Annabelle Makowski, Mayank Arora join NEWS-G as graduate students, and George Savvidis graduates and becomes postdoc
Date Published: Aug 12, 2021
First Light!
Installation of the NEWS-G experiment was finally completed in early August