When snow “confuses” cosmic rays: the Chilean experiment that looks at the sky with fresh eyes
High in northern Chile, where the sky is so clear that it seems to magnify the universe, something invisible yet constant is taking place: a shower of particles from space is passing through Earth’s atmosphere. These are cosmic rays, messengers of distant phenomena, which, upon colliding with the air, generate a cascade of secondary particles, including […]
Dr. Sergey Kuleshov, Director of SAPHIR, is appointed Collaboration Board Chair of the NA-64 experiment at CERN.
Dr. Sergey Kuleshov, director of SAPHIR, is appointed Collaboration Board Chair of CERN's NA-64 experiment Professor Sergey Kuleshov has been appointed Collaboration Board Chair of the NA-64 experiment at CERN. Highlighting the academic's scientific and management qualities, he is recognized worldwide for his expertise in the field of High Energy Particle Physics […]
Director of the Division of Science, Energy, Education, Innovation and Astronomy (Decyti) visits SPAHIR
The Division of Science, Energy, Education, Innovation, and Astronomy (Decyti) of the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs visited our Institute. During a tour of our facilities at Andrés Bello University, we shared with the delegation our plans for international cooperation between the Millennium Institute SAPHIR and CERN, among other topics. The […]
Deputy director and science outreach team of the Millennium Institute SAPHIR participate in UC's science fair
Giovanna Cottin, researcher at the SAPHIR Millennium Institute, explains the advances in Particle Phenomenology on CNN's Divergent
Signs of new physics: where and how to look?
Pedro Urrejola, a postdoctoral researcher at the Saphir Millennium Institute, talks about what fascinates him about particle physics and the goals of his research. He explains that, to discover new particles and extend the Standard Model, it’s not enough to simply have more and better detectors: analytical tools must also be improved, such as […]
How to create state-of-the-art electronics to study the subatomic world
At the Saphir Millennium Institute laboratory, located on the Casona de Las Condes campus of the Universidad Andrés Bello, a team of technicians and engineers work to develop cutting-edge technology for various experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, among other research projects worldwide. This is technology for particle physics that could have revolutionary applications, such as medical imaging.
Searching for new elementary particles at the half-life frontier: charting a route to new physics.
The Large Hadron Collider has not discovered any new fundamental particles since it detected the Higgs boson in 2012. Why? Are there deficiencies in the detectors, in the search strategies, in the accelerator itself? Or is what is already known simply all there is, and we have to work with that? The […]