The visit by Mr. Felipe Olivares León, Executive Director of SAPHIR, strengthens Chile's collaboration with CERN and ATLAS.
During the week of January 26, the executive director of the SAPHIR Millennium Institute, Felipe Olivares, made a working visit to CERN, aimed at strengthening scientific and technological collaboration ties, as well as promoting the institute's participation in strategic frontier science initiatives. One of the central milestones of the […]
Addles Castillo, PhD student at Andrés Bello University and member of the Millennium Institute SAPHIR, obtains the highest score in the final exam of the CERN School of Computing 2026
Between January 12 and 23, 2026, the CERN School of Computing 2026 (CSC26) was held at the Lo Contador Campus of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. The school brought together 69 master's and doctoral students, along with professionals from Chile, Latin America, Europe, and other regions, who participated in two weeks of intensive training [...]
SAPHIR research, led by UNAB academic Dr. Jilberto Zamora, contributes to the development of key technology for LHC detectors
A new study led by Dr. Jilberto Zamora, associate researcher at the Millennium Institute SAPHIR, presents the design and validation of the ColdBox, an innovative protective structure developed for CERN's Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC (SND@LHC) experiment. The ColdBox was conceived to protect highly sensitive components of the detector—in particular, films […]