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11:40

Gas detectors: general principles

Dave Dr Barney (CERN)

22 March 2018 @ 11:40 - 12:30

Calorimetry in high-energy physics is rapidly evolving, with new specifications (e.g. higher energies, enormous particle densities) and a wide variety of technologies, both for signal creation and detection. Advances in large-area highly-segmented detectors based on, for example, silicon and scintillators, are providing possibilities for high-granularity calorimetry, providing unprecedented levels of information from particle showers. This …

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14:30

The usefulness of useless science

Dr. Fabrizio Fiore (INAF-OAR)

22 March 2018 @ 14:30 - 16:00

If the scientific results financed by taxpayer money are “public goods”, is it useful or even ethical to spend billions Euros/$ to search for an elementary particle? Or to visit a Jupiter satellite and look for water on Mars? Or to observe a galaxy ad the edge of the Universe? In other words, is it …

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