As part of the European I.FAST particle accelerator R&D program led by CERN, a radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ), one of the most complex elements of particle accelerator, has been synthesized in…
An international team, gathered around a novel experiment conducted at GANIL, has shown that some states of 36Ca have a very large energy difference with the equivalent states of its "mirror" nucleus…
In June 2002, the H.E.S.S. collaboration directed its first telescope towards Blazar PKS 2155-304, one of the brightest active galactic nuclei in the southern hemisphere.Scientists aimed to explore…
A team of microelectronics engineers from three IN2P3 laboratories (1) has developed and tested two very high precision clock generators. These components will be used to beat the time in the…