Cosmic drift, an article by P. Serpico highlighted

Spectral Breaks as a Signature of Cosmic Ray Induced Turbulence in the Galaxy

 Pasquale Blasi, Elena Amato, and Pasquale D. Serpico, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 061101 (2012).

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LAPTh co-organiser of a High Energy School in Turkey

LAPTh is partner in an  ERASMUS Intensive Programme whose project coordinator is METU (Middle East Technical University), Ankara, Turkey. The consortium organised the  International Summer School on High Energy Physics:”Standard Model and Beyond”  funded in part by the EU and the Turkish National Agency-Life Long Learning. Our first year doctoral students took part in the school which was held in Antalya from 28 August to 8 September 2012. See the site of the School for more details. 

Higgs Discovered at the LHC?

On the 4th of July both of ATLAS and CMS, the two multi-purpose detectors at the LHC have announced that they have established, with a very high degree of confidence, the existence of a resonance at the LHC. This is most probably the long sought after Higgs. The physics of the Higgs is the topic of many researchers at LAPTh (See here a list of publications by LAPTh physicists with Higgs in the title..).

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Fawzi Boudjema in the magazine, La Recherche

Fawzi Boudjema is interviewed in a special issue of the magazine La Recherche dated July/August 2012. The special issue is entitled the Physics of the 21st Century. The contribution of our colleague covered supersymmetry and the Higgs in particular in the context of the LHC. This was a well timed interview since the publication of the magazine coincided with the CERN annoucement that a new particle, most probably the missing Higgs, has been discovered.