Saphir students share and discuss their research projects at the First Winter Workshop for Students
The event, held on Friday, July 29, at the Casona de Las Condes campus of Andrés Bello University, gave students the opportunity to present the research and theses they are working on, discuss them with their peers, and receive feedback from other researchers at the Millennium Saphir Institute. By Jorge Román With a reminder of […]
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 […]
Saphir researcher joins team leading and coordinating CERN's long-lived particle working group
Giovanna Cottin, a professor at Adolfo Ibáñez University and a junior researcher at the Millennium Saphir Institute, will lead a group—along with two other theoretical physicists—dedicated to bridging the gap between experiments at the Large Hadron Collider and long-lived particles, which are elementary particles that have been theorized but not yet discovered. […]
The Millennium Science Initiative visits Saphir's facilities: first visit in two years
During the visit, Saphir’s faculty members had the opportunity to present on the progress of their research projects, international collaborations, and student training initiatives, among the various activities carried out by the institute. They also discussed the opportunities, weaknesses, and threats facing our institute. By Jorge […]
CCHEN Delegation visits Saphir Millennium Institute
During the visit, the two sides discussed a joint agenda for technical, scientific, and outreach collaboration. By Jorge Román On May 4, a delegation of researchers and professionals from the Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission (CCHEN) visited the offices of the Saphir Millennium Institute on the Casona de Las Condes campus of Andrés […] University
The Saphir Millennium Institute was officially inaugurated with a call to avoid the "brain drain".
On Monday, May 16, 2022, the official inauguration of the Millennium Institute for Subatomic Physics at the High Energy Frontier, Saphir, took place. This important milestone for our institute was attended by authorities from our host institutions, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the National Research and Development Agency […]
UNAB, Saphir and UTA team performs the first radon gas mapping in Chile
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 […]
New publication by Saphir Millennium Institute academics provides clues on how to discover heavy neutrinos at the Large Hadron Collider
If the existence of heavy neutrinos is proven, it could expand the standard model of particle physics and explain why known neutrinos have mass (something the standard model cannot explain). Heavy neutrino oscillation could also play an essential role in the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe. […]