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Let's be honest, it's hard not to be awestruck by a massive, precision-engineered, particle accelerator that is unlocking the secrets of matter by smashing protons together at relativistic speeds! This week I had the opportunity to visit one of the wonders of the modern world at CERN with a delegation from Ireland. As Ireland's submission for associate membership to CERN is in progress, we came to Geneva to gain a deeper understanding of how Ireland might best benefit from, and contribute to, this remarkable facility. The scale, ingenuity and precision of the engineering and physics at CERN are mind-blowing. As the collider is currently offline, it afforded us the rare privilege of visiting the detector 100M below ground. The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) has a circumference of approx. 27Km and thousands of powerful, supercooled magnets that contain two accelerating beams of protons (going in opposite directions) at very nearly the speed of light. Once they are up to full speed the beams are nudged, ever so slightly, until they collide at the exact location of a sophisticated suite of sensors. The sensors gather incredible amounts of data in fractions of a second that allow physicists to unpack the exact composition of the subatomic particles created by the collision. The visionary and long-term thinking at CERN is truly inspiring. Not content with the current speed of 99.9999991% the speed of light, the team at CERN are already shaping a future vision with a new accelerator ring of up to 100Km in circumference that will deliver vastly more energy and should help unlock even more new physics and increase our understanding of the universe. Many thanks to our hosts at CERN who gave so generously of their time to host an Irish delegation of university leadership, researchers, government representatives and ambassadors. A special thanks to my researcher travelling companions for helping me to brush up on my very rusty particle physics. #CERN #science #technology #Physics #irishresearch. Science Foundation Ireland Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science UCD Research University of Limerick Trinity College Dublin Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Orla Feely HEAnet Aoife McGarry Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland

Just back in Stockholm from an incredible experience at EUCAS23 conference in Bologna! During this event I had the opportunity to meet researchers from all around the world, a few of which I had already met in previous conferences/ summer schools and working experiences. It was, without a doubt, the largest event of this kind I've ever attended, offering an enlightening overview on research fields closely related to mine and their applications to shape the future of superconductive technology: from quantum computing and cutting-edge material science, to the developments magnets for accelerators and fusion reactors. In the photo below, here am I, in front of my conference poster showing part of my research at Stockholm University. The topic I presented is a preliminary study on how the synchronization of up to a thousand of superconducting microscopic devices, Josephson junctions, can be exploited to make a coherent, efficient and tunable source of high frequency microwaves / THz radiation. If you are interested to know more about this topic, you can find here the full paper summarized in the poster. https://lnkd.in/dfXTWuMq

🎓 Just wrapped up a fantastic week at the CERN Accelerator School (CAS) 🚀💫 The Basic course ended with an active room full of intense discussions about accelerator physics🏭 👨🔬 During this week, we reviewed the core topics of accelerator physics, with particular emphasis on CERN machines and CERN applications, respectively. This course is a perfect starting point for those who do not have much experience in the field. 📚 Kudos to our participants; we welcome you to our accelerator physics community!!!!💻 🎓If you want to go a little bit deeper...🎓 💫 Registration is now open for our Introduction to Accelerator Physics 💫 in Spain next September. Take a look here: 👉 https://cas.web.cern.ch/ 👈 This two-week residential course is perfect for laboratory and university staff and students, as well as manufacturers of accelerator equipment. 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 It provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental concepts of beam dynamics and underlying accelerator systems. It is a challenging and unforgettable course with multiple networking opportunities. With: Vittorio Bencini, Stephane Deghaye, Edda Gschwendtner, Jacqueline Keintzel, Thibaut Lefevre, alessandra lombardi, Richard Scrivens, Irina Shreyber, PhD, Steinar Stapnes, Rende Steerenberg, Frank Tecker, Ezio Todesco, Jorg Wenninger, Vincent Baglin, Jeremie Bauche, Xavier Buffat, Heiko Damerau, Bernhard Holzer, Torsten Koettig, Paris Sphicas, Markus Zerlauth, Delphine Rivoiron, Maria Filippova, Noemí Carabán González 🌍🌐 #CERN #CAS #AcceleratorPhysics #Engineering #Education #Learning #Science #Technology #ParticlePhysics #IntroductoryCourse #Training #ProfessionalDevelopment

CERN develops pioneering #technology and expertise with the potential of applications in many areas beyond particle physics. For this, the Laboratory builds its expertise broadly on 3️⃣ technical fields: accelerators, detectors and computing. 🤝 Behind these three pillars of technology lie many threads of technology and human expertise that translate into the acceleration of innovation in industry and the maximisation of the global positive #impact of CERN across industries by liaising with different actors in its ecosystem. Can you name one of the impact areas deriving from CERN’s three pillars of technology? 🎄 Comment below! #HolidaySeason #AdventCalendar #innovation #technologies #sustainability

🔬 Join Us for an Engaging Scientific Talk! 🌟 We are excited to invite you to the upcoming SFB Colloquium featuring Prof. Dr. Tobias Stauber from the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid. 🗓️ Date: Tuesday, 02.07.2024 ⏰ Time: 14:15 🏢 Location: H34 Prof. Stauber will be presenting on the compelling topic of "Nematic versus Triplet Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene." Be part of an enlightening session where we explore the phase diagrams of realistic moiré systems, starting from a microscopic tight-binding model for twisted bilayer graphene within the Hartree-Fock approximation. The talk will cover the emergent U(4)-ferromagnet, the symmetry-breaking in real samples, and how this affects the asymmetry between the superconducting phases for electron and hole doping. Additionally, the discussion will extend to the theory of Ising superconductivity in twisted trilayer graphene and how real-space chirality can be measured in linear transport experiments. This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in cutting-edge research in condensed matter physics and materials science. #CondensedMatterPhysics #TwistedBilayerGraphene #NematicSuperconductivity #TripletSuperconductivity #MoiréSystems #MaterialsScience #ScientificResearch #PhysicsTalk #Colloquium #SFB1277 See you there! 🚀

An international team of researchers from Leibniz Universität Hannover (Germany) and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (United Kingdom) has disproved a previously held assumption about the impact of #multiphoton components in #interference effects of thermal fields (e.g. sunlight) and parametric single #photons (generated in non-linear crystals). The finding offers new starting points for research into photonic #quantum information systems. "We experimentally proved that the interference effect between thermal light and parametric single photons also leads to quantum interference with the background field. For this reason, the background cannot simply be neglected and subtracted from calculations, as has been the case up to now," says Prof. Dr. Michael Kues, Head of the Institute of Photonics and member of the Board of the PhoenixD Cluster of Excellence at Leibniz University Hannover. Read more https://lnkd.in/e_7s-fDy The journal Physical Review Letters has published the team's research: https://lnkd.in/e6xZFFjq American Physical Society #APSMarch #photonics #quantum #scicomm #wisskomm ct.qmat ML4Q | Matter and Light for Quantum Computing  IQST — Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology  QuantumFrontiers Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - German Research Foundation Research in Germany  #phdlife #phdchat #photonics #job #LUH

Part of my research at CERN was focused in the study of the so-called inner triplet magnets. These magnets have the goal to squeeze the LHC beam towards the collision points to increase the chances of two protons colliding. In particular, I studied the effects of imperfections and ground motion in the inner triplet magnets of the future LHC upgrade, the HL-LHC. At that time, I had to perform my studies using simulations since no real magnets were built yet. About three years have passed already since and today I met in person with one of those magnets. In the picture, there is the cross section of one of them. The beams pass through the hole at the centre and the rest is just a marvellous piece of engineering that required the effort of many people, both physicists and engineers. I am so proud to see the progress made with the hope my contributions, as well as the contribution of many other colleagues, can be imprinted somehow once these magnets are finally installed and running. #progress #research #lhc #hllhc #science

This week, starting May 8th I'll be attending the #QuantumMatter2024 conference in San Sebastián, organized by Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Phantoms Foundation, CSIC, and Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2). If you're attending, come by our poster (#120) to discuss about fully quantum models, hybrid models, and classical model implementation for image classification exciting research and the future of the field! #quantummachinelearning #quantumcomputing #quantumimageprocessing