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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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New Chair and Vice-Chair for the APPEC Scientific Advisory Committee
13th July 2020
During the last meeting of the General Assembly a new Chair and Vice-Chair for the Scientific Advisory Committee have been...
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Borexino performs the first detection ever of CNO cycle neutrinos from the Sun
8th July 2020
At the recent Neutrino 2020 virtual meeting the Borexino Collaboration has announced the first detection ever of neutrinos from the...
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Observation of Excess Events in the XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment
1st July 2020
Scientists from the international XENON collaboration announced on June 17th that data from their XENON1T, the world's most sensitive dark...
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Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics
23rd June 2020
APPEC congratulates the CERN Council for its decision to update the European Strategy for Particle Physics setting up a...
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APPEC welcomes Poland as new member
26th May 2020
In April 2020 the previous observer Poland became an official member of APPEC. In the General Assembly they are represented...
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QUBIC – a Q&U Bolometric Interferometer for Cosmology
15th May 2020
The quest for B-mode polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is one of the major challenges of observational cosmology....
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