(The LHC tunnel at point 1. Image: CERN) The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator has restarted after a break of more than three years for maintenance, consolidation, and upgrade work. Today, 22 April, afternoon two beams of protons circulated in opposite directions around the Large Hadron Collider’s 27-kilometre ring at their injection energy...Continue reading→

(Image: screen capture from the video posted in European Research Council’s YouTube channel) Professor Tuuli Toivonen and Associate Professor Mikko Voutilainen from Kumpula Campus and Associate Professor Pekka Katajisto from Viikki Campus were granted competitive ERC Consolidator Grants in the 2021 call. More information here: https://erc.europa.eu/news/erc-2021-consolidator-grants-results https://flamma.helsinki.fi/s/DFq6V (intranet, requires login)Continue reading→

(Image: James Pinfold, MoEDAL Collaboration) Magnetic monopoles are hypothetical fundamental particles that are predicted by several theories but have never been detected. MoEDAL experiment at the Large Hadron Collider is designed to search for highly ionizing avatars of new physics, such as magnetic monopoles. In recent paper published in Nature, MoEDAL collaboration presents results on...Continue reading→