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Machine-learning Optimized Design of Experiments

15th April 2021
Interview with Tommaso Dorigo about the MODE collaboration As reply to the JENAA call for Expression of Interest Tommaso Dorigo...
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IceCube detection of a high-energy particle proves 60-year-old theory

10th March 2021
On December 8, 2016, a high-energy particle called an electron antineutrino hurtled to Earth from outer space at close to...
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Release of Open Data on the Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays by the Pierre Auger Observatory

22nd February 2021
The Pierre Auger Collaboration is releasing 10% of the data recorded using the world’s largest cosmic ray detector. These data...
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Carbon Footprint Study for the GRAND Project

17th February 2021
Interview with Clarisse Aujoux, Kumiko Kotera and Odile Blanchard on the first carbon footprint study of an astroparticle physics experiment ...
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Virgo and LIGO awarded IEEE Milestone of Science and Technology

10th February 2021
The Virgo interferometer is officially a IEEE Milestone, along with the two LIGO detectors. On 3rd February 2021 the ceremony...
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AHEAD 2020 – Announcement of Opportunity Cycle 1

19th January 2021
The AHEAD2020 (Integrated Activities for High Energy Astrophysics) project has been funded under the Horizon 2020 Research Infrastructure Program. The...
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Update on the Snowmass 2021

18th January 2021
During the week of October 4-8, the “Community Planning Meeting” (CPM2020) for the Snowmass 2021 took place. The aim was...
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Another milestone in the search for neutrinoless double-beta decay – Final results of GERDA

18th January 2021
The GERmanium Detector Array (GERDA) experiment at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) of INFN, Italy, has reported its...
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International Cosmic Day 2020

18th December 2020
On November 4, 2020, the International Cosmic Day (ICD) took place for the 9th time. It focuses on the measurement...
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REINFORCE – Minimising the knowledge gap between science and society through Citizen Science

18th December 2020
Interview with Stavros Katsanevas about the Citizen Science project REINFORCE The REINFORCE (Research Infrastructures FOR citizens in Europe) project aims...
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New APPEC Chair and General Secretary

17th December 2020
Interview with Andreas Haungs and Katharina Henjes-Kunst On December 9 at the General Assembly Meeting, a new Chair and a...
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Meeting of the APPEC General Assembly

17th December 2020
On 9 December, the APPEC General Assembly came together for an online Meeting. The meeting was opened by a welcome...
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Next step in the deployment of the KM3NeT/ORCA detector

1st December 2020
Another KM3NeT/ORCA detector deployment campaign in the Mediterranean was brought to a conclusion in October 2020. A second junction box...
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Joint ECFA – NuPECC – APPEC Activities (JENAA)

26th October 2020
The nuclear, particle and astroparticle physics communities, represented by the three committees/ consortia NuPECC, ECFA and APPEC want to join...
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Pinning-Down the Sources of the Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays

9th October 2020
The Pierre Auger Collaboration has reported a measurement of the spectrum of cosmic-rays above 2.5 x 1018 eV made with...
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Virgo and LIGO unveil new and unexpected black hole populations

4th September 2020
Virgo and LIGO have announced the detection of an extraordinarily massive merging binary system: two black holes of 66 and...
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Assembling the XENONnT Dark Matter Detector during Covid-19 Times

28th July 2020
The nature of dark matter (DM), an invisible substance which constitutes 85% of matter in the observable universe, is one...
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CUPID-Mo: a new world leading limit for neutrinoless double beta decay of 100Mo

16th July 2020
Neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) is a crucial process in particle physics and cosmology. It can be conceived as an...
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CTA Prototype LST-1 Detects Very High-Energy Emission from the Crab Pulsar

15th July 2020
Between January and February 2020, the prototype Large-Sized Telescope (LST), the LST-1, observed the Crab Pulsar, the neutron star at...
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Virgo and LIGO spot a mystery object merging with a black hole

15th July 2020
When the most massive stars die, they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind black holes; when stars that...
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