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A New Milestone in the Construction of the Cubic Kilometer Baikal-GVD Deep Underwater Neutrino Telescope
28th April 2020
From February 17 to April 10, two new clusters of optical modules were installed, the sixth and the seventh, at...
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The MVM Project, from Dark Matter Research to Mechanical Ventilator
27th April 2020
The rapid spread of COVID-19 has shown a scarcity of ventilators compared to the number of patients. Thus, on the...
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Report on the 1st EuCAPT census
14th February 2020
The European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory (EuCAPT) invited all scientists (PhD students, postdocs, and staff) affiliated to a European institution,...
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APPEC SAC sub-committee to prepare report on Direct Detection of Dark Matter
11th February 2020
Over the past year, the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) received mandate from the General Assembly to form a Dark Matter...
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KM3NeT/ORCA Phase 1 detector completed
7th February 2020
In January 2020 Phase 1 of the KM3NeT-France construction was successfully completed. About one year after the deployment of the...
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LIGO-Virgo network catches another neutron star collision
5th February 2020
On April 25, 2019 a gravitational wave signal was observed by the gravitational-wave network that includes LIGO (the Laser Interferometer...
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1st EuCAPT census
14th January 2020
The European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory (EuCAPT, https://www.eucapt.org) invites all theoretical astroparticle physicists and cosmologists (PhD students, postdocs, and staff) who...
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Meeting of the APPEC General Assembly in Lisbon
18th December 2019
The APPEC General Assembly (GA) came together in Lisbon at the Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics (LIP). The...
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DESI Opens Its 5,000 Eyes to Capture the Colors of the Cosmos
17th December 2019
A new instrument mounted atop a telescope in Arizona has aimed its robotic array of 5,000 fiber-optic “eyes” at the...
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Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay – report from the APPEC sub-committee
12th December 2019
The APPEC General Assembly and the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) appointed a sub-committee to discuss the searches for the neutrinoless...
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Draw me a neutrino – a creative challenge from the KM3NeT Collaboration
12th December 2019
The KM3NeT Collaboration launches the drawing contest "Draw me a neutrino": Participants from France, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Morocco, South Africa,...
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Celebration of the first 20 years of the Pierre Auger Observatory
9th December 2019
In November 2019 about 300 scientists and guests from all over the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Pierre...
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Gamma-Ray Bursts with record energy
21st November 2019
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are sudden, short bursts of gamma radiation happening about once a day somewhere in the visible universe....
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JENAS: astroparticle, nuclear and particle physicists meet
8th November 2019
The first JENAS, Joint ECFA (European Committee for Future Accelerators)-NuPECC (Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee)-APPEC (AstroParticle Physics European Consortium) Seminar,...
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Mini-EUSO now in space
7th October 2019
On August 27th Mini-EUSO has been launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome and docked to ISS on August 27. Mini-EUSO is...
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Looking AHEAD in the high-energy Universe
2nd October 2019
AHEAD2020 is the H2020 infrastructure program for the High-Energy Astrophysics Domain recently approved by EU. Scientists and engineers from 38...
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ETpathfinder – the prototype for the Einstein Telescope
2nd October 2019
In preparation of the next generation of gravitational wave telescopes, a 20-meter prototype, called the ETpathfinder, will be built in...
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Cooperation between CERN and JINR and the Advanced Virgo detector
2nd October 2019
APPEC is glad to announce that the APPEC Technology Forum (ATF) 2018 triggered a new collaboration. The PLI (precision laser...
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New Results for the Mass of Neutrinos
24th September 2019
Neutrinos and their small non-zero masses play a key role in cosmology and particle physics. The allowed range of the...
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Towards Coordination of the European CMB Programme
24th September 2019
With the development of CMB Stage-IV in North America and the selection of LiteBIRD in Japan, the European CMB community...
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