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• In Paris this March, join thousands of cloud native community members to dive into topics including AI, WASM, Platform Engineering, security, and more
  SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cloud Native Computing Foundation ® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, released the schedule for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 , happening in-person in Paris, France, 19 – 21 March.
• As cutting-edge technologies like AI, eBPF, WASM, and research around environmental sustainability impact the cloud native ecosystem, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon will again bring together the unique and diverse community of cloud native technologists to learn from one another.
• said Kasper Nissen, Staff Engineer at Lunar and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference co-chair.
• Platform engineering is another big topic to look out for as it expands into the ML/AI space.

• Batavia, Illinois, Dec. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment — also known as DUNE — is an international mega science experiment that will use enormous particle detectors to study the behavior of neutrinos, which might indicate why we live in a matter-dominated universe.
• “DUNE will help answer some of the biggest questions in the universe and has the potential to transform the field of neutrino physics.
• Notably, CERN’s commitment to LBNF and DUNE represents its first investment in infrastructure for a physics experiment outside of Europe.
• To pursue these science goals, DUNE will study neutrino oscillation, a phenomenon in which a neutrino’s property, called flavor, changes as it travels.

• We are two scientists who study nuclear and particle physics using CERN’s Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland.
• Working with an international group of nuclear and particle physicists, our team realized that hidden in the data from previous studies was a remarkable and innovative experiment.
• In a new paper published in Physical Review Letters, we developed a new method with our colleagues for measuring how fast a particle called the tau wobbles.

Why measure a wobble?

• Taus are the heaviest in this family of three and the most mysterious, as they exist only for minuscule amounts of time.
• Since the 1940s, physicists have been interested in measuring magnetic moments to reveal intriguing effects in the quantum world.
• By measuring this wobble very precisely, physicists can peer into this cloud to uncover possible hints of undiscovered particles.

Testing electrons, muons and taus

• Muons and taus are much heavier but also far shorter-lived than electrons.
• They found that muons wobbled noticeably faster than Standard Model predictions, suggesting unknown particles may be appearing in the muon’s quantum cloud.
• But taus are also the hardest to see, since they live for just a millionth of the time a muon exists.

Lead ions for near-miss physics

• The particles used in this experiment were lead nuclei that had been stripped of their electrons – called lead ions.
• The electromagnetic fields of lead ions contain particles of light called photons.
• When two lead ions collide, their photons can also collide and convert all their energy into a single pair of particles.
• It goes like this: Lead ions are so small that they often miss each other in collision experiments.

First measurement of tau wobble in two decades

• Using that data, the team was also able to measure the tau magnetic moment – the first time such a measurement had been done since 2004.
• This landmark result measured the tau wobble to two decimal places.
• Much to our astonishment, this method tied the previous best measurement using only one month of data recorded in 2018.
• This increase in data will double the accuracy of the measurement of the tau magnetic moment, and improvements to analysis methods may go even further.

• NEW YORK, Oct. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Science Scholars (WSS) program provides an unparalleled opportunity for extraordinarily gifted high school students from around the world to explore cutting-edge scientific research with world-renowned scientists.
• WSS recently welcomed its sixth cohort of 52 scholars from 22 different countries.
• — They will be making discoveries that shape our world," said World Science U President Gillian Small.
• The World Science Scholars program is made possible by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.