CHIPP: Swiss Institute of Particle Physics
Highlights of the Year
The year 2024 was marked by intense activity and significant achievements for CHIPP, with key events shaping the direction of Swiss particle physics. One of the most notable milestones was the 2024 Roadmap Workshop, held on January 18-19, where CHIPP convened to refine its strategic vision. As a bottom-up institution CHIPP plays an essential role in organizing and advancing the country's particle physics interests.
The organization's research framework is structured around three experimental pillars: high-energy & low-energy physics, neutrino physics, and astroparticle physics; with theory and accelerator physics also playing an integral role. A major objective has been to provide input into the SERI Roadmap for Research Infrastructures, ensuring its alignment with Switzerland’s long-term research strategy, with a particular focus on developments from 2029 to 2032, building upon the previous strategy formulated four years ago. It will revisit high-level recommendations, integrate changes in facility schedules and scientific advancements, and refine experimental priorities.
A crucial takeaway from the roadmap discussions is the necessity of updating Switzerland’s research infrastructures. The prioritized needs for both existing and new infrastructures will be reassessed, taking into account national and international contexts.
CHIPP produced also a concise supplementary document, the Whitepaper for Pillar II and III, to complement existing roadmaps, specifically addressing updates to current infrastructures and prioritizing new infrastructure needs. Special acknowledgment is extended to the experimental pillar editors Tobias Golling, Paolo Crivelli, Michele Weber, and Teresa Montaruli, as well as to speakers Mauro Donega (computing), Michael Spira (theory), and Katharina Mueller (outreach). The efforts of special topic coordinators Thea Aarestad, Tatsuya Nakada, and Gaia Lanfranchi were also instrumental in shaping discussions.
During the Workshop CHIPP revied its program to ensure necessary updates and strategic adjustments, evaluated research plans for 2025-2028 and 2029-2032 while considering funding constraints and research priorities. Efforts were made to identify synergies across different research pillars to strengthen the Swiss particle physics program. Deliverables from this process included revised project timelines, refined high-level recommendations, and a structured implementation plan.
In March 2024, CHIPP had the honor of welcoming the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA) to Switzerland. These periodic visits assess the status of particle physics in each CERN Member State, offering valuable recommendations to both the scientific community and policymakers. Such a visit is organised every six to seven, this time it was hosted at the National Laboratory, PSI. The Swiss government and funding agencies representatives were present.
The CHIPP Executive Board, together with SCNAT IT, has organized a survey to distribute to current and former members of CHIPP. More than 200 responses have been collected that provided information about the post-university studies of Swiss students. Statistics on funding and projects were collected from the Swiss Institutes. As a response to the visit ECFA recognized Switzerland’s outstanding contributions to CERN’s flagship projects, particularly the LHC, where Swiss researchers play leading roles in operations, data analysis, and management. Beyond the LHC, Swiss participation in experiments such as FASER, SHiP, NA62, and several neutrino projects underscores the breadth and impact of our research. The visit also highlighted Switzerland’s pivotal role in the Future Circular Collider (FCC) and emphasized the importance of sustained, dedicated resources to ensure its successful realization.
Switzerland’s excellence in theoretical physics, astroparticle physics, and detector and accelerator R&D was commended, with ECFA stressing the need for long-term funding strategies to maintain leadership and strengthen collaborations with CERN. Ensuring stable research positions and faculty renewal remains a key priority for securing the future of Swiss particle physics.
CHIPP remains committed to fostering Switzerland’s world-leading role in the field, addressing ECFA’s recommendations, and advocating for the continued support that enables groundbreaking discoveries and technological advancements.
The 19th and 20th June CHIPP had the Annual meeting at the University of Geneva, we held the Board meeting in parallel witth an ERC session, the formal Plenary meeting and the CHIPP (fast) AI/ML & computing workshop. Thea Aarrestad, Mauro Donega, Teresa Montaruli, Steven Schramm, Anna Sfyrla organised this workshop with the objectives to map out the CHIPP-AI landscape, provide a platform for discussion & networking and to foster potential common projects.
A poster session is organised for the 20 June with a special prize for the best poster (awarded at the CHIPP Plenary.
As every year, during the Plenary meeting there was the award celebration for the CHIPP PhD Prize to Gabriela R. Araujo (UZH) “for her significant and novel contributions to a wide range of experimental techniques for the GERDA, LEGEND, MONUMENT and PALEOCCENE experiments in the field of neutrino physics and related measurements that enabled to set record-limits on the neurinoless double beta decay and initiated innovative developments of experimental techniques”. Gabriela presented her work with a talk “ADVANCING NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE BETA DECAY SEARCH WITH GERDA, LEGEND & MONUMENT, & EXPLORING PASSIVE NEUTRINO DETECTORS WITH PALEOCCENE”.
ZUOZ school August 2024
The 26th PSI Summer School took place from 4 to the 10 August in the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz (http://www.psi.ch/particle-zuoz-school). It was attended by 87 students (including 64 from CH, 14 from EU countries and 9 from non-EU countries), 4 organizers and 8 lecturers. The programme consisted of 90 minutes lectures with long breaks between the lectures, giving ample time for discussions.
In 2024 the Swiss Summer Student Program in Particle Physics had his first pilot program from July to September 2024.
The Swiss Summer Student Program is organized by the particle physics groups of ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich, EPFL and the University of Geneva. It is supported by the Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP) and the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT).The program allowed students to work on detector development or perform data analysis in particle physics. We covered different topics, from research on exotic atoms - where particle physics, atomic physics and quantum optics meet - to research on high-energy physics, contributing to the upgrade of different detectors and/or analysing data with the use of machine learning techniques. Students spent nine weeks at ETH Zurich, the University of Zurich or EPFL.
The SPS Annual meeting took place from 9 - 13 September 2024 at the Campus Zentrum of the ETH Zürich. The conference opened this year on Monday, 9 September with the third edition of the Physics Funding in Switzerland session followed by a symposium acknowledging Louis de Broglie: 100 years of wave-particle duality. After the symposium, Anne l'Huillier (Lund University, Sweden), Nobel Laureate 2023, gave a public lecture, jointly organised by the SPS and the SSPh: The route to attosecond pulses. The Women in Physics Career Symposium, also with its third edition, became an integral part of the annual meeting and took place on Tuesday, 10 September. On Friday, 13 September, the new section Energy and Sustainability had its inaugural session with a special program.
From Tuesday to Friday, renowned speakers gave talks in the plenary sessions, while the parallel sessions will allow in depth discussions in several topical fields were the CHIPP students gave their talks (TASK session). A poster exhibition complemented the scientific program.
2024 marked also the unveiling of the CHEF program (CH Experimental research at the FCC). FCC document marked a pivotal moment, summarizing 20 projects for the Future Circular Collider (FCC). This document not only provided a comprehensive overview but also showcased the community's broad interest and commitment to FCC-related initiatives.
The CHIPP outreach activities continued supporting the thematic portal hosted on the SCNAT website, the multi-lingual “particlephysics.ch”. Thanks to the SCNAT support, we could continue to keep this a lively page with 8 articles by Barbara Warmbein, a professional journalist, and several other news articles and press releases in 2024.
X/Twitter presence: Geneva: @DPNC_Unige, Bern @bernlhep, Zurich @UZHPhysics, PSI @psich_en, ETH @ETH_en, EPFL @EPFL_en, CHIPP @CHIPP_news.
Meetings, Workshops and Schools
In 2024 CHIPP continued to work on its networking and educational goals and organized directly or through its members several meetings, schools and workshops.
PSAS 2024: International Conference on Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems, ETH Zurich, June 10-14 organised by P. Crivelli (ETHZ).
PSI Particle Physics Summer School, “From Low to High: Particle Physics at the Frontier”
Zuoz 2024, organized by Harald Ita, Michael Spira, Peter Stoffer.
Rabat EduCom International Summer School REISS, Stefan Ritt (PSI) co-organizer.
IEEE/NPSS School of Environmental Radiation Measurements, Stefan Ritt (PSI) co-organizer.
Scientific cooperation
Research in particle and astroparticle physics usually involves large infrastructures, which are the result of regional, national and worldwide collaborations. To cover the important intellectual and technological challenges, the amounts of human and financial resources required can no longer be provided by a single country. The table below shows a snapshot of the current international experimental collaborations involving CHIPP Board members.
Furthermore, smaller cooperation projects exist; many of them occur spontaneously – between groups working in the same field or requiring the same type of infrastructure – or in a coordinated way by CHIPP. Here below are some of the activities coordinated by CHIPP members:
Michael Spira (PSI) is the convener of 3 Subgroups (BR, bbH, MSSM) of the LHC Higgs working group.
A team from PSI: Stefan Ritt (MEG II, Mu3e), Bernhard Lauss (n2EDM), Aldo Antognini (CREMA), Andreas Knecht (muX) manage the regular (between monthly and annually) collaboration meetings of the respective projects at PSI.
S. Schramm (University of Geneva) created an ATLAS open dataset for outreach and teaching purposes, which was made public in June 2021 see the CERN open data webpage.
Prof. Olivier Schneider is member of the Particle Data Group, and he is an active member of a sub-group of the Heavy Flavour Averaging Group (HFLAV). HFLAV is responsible for calculating world averages of measurements of beauty-hadron, charm-hadron and tau-lepton properties from current and past experiments and provides a comprehensive resource for the field in terms of web pages and full documentation of results.
One particular example of scientific collaboration and help at the service of the new arrivals in the LHCb experiment has been provided by the EPFL team that has built the LHCb starterkit project where the lessons from the dedicated Workshops and online tutorials are stored. EPFL researchers organized the LHCb Starterkit lessons. Maria Faria (EPFL) organised and gave lectures at the LHCb starterkit II at CERN, 25-29.11.2024.
Project Swiss institutes (CHIPP Board Members) Institutes worldwide
High-Energy particle physics
ATLAS Bern, Geneva (Beck, Braccini, Golling, Iacobucci, Nessi, Schramm, Sfyrla, Weber, Wu) 263
CMS ETHZ, PSI, Zurich (Caminada, Canelli, DeCosa, Dissertori, Erdmann, Kilminster, Wallny) 249
LHCb EPFL, Zurich (Blanc, Marchevski, Schneider, Serra, Shchutska, Steinkamp) 99
LHC Tier-2 ETHZ, CSCS (Donegà) > 200
HL-LHC EPFL, PSI (Seidel) 55
CLIC ETHZ, PSI (Seidel) 70
FCC Basel, Bern, EPFL, ETHZ, Geneva, PSI (Blondel, Dissertori, Laine, Seidel) 148
NA64 ETHZ (Crivelli) 13
FASER Bern, Geneva (Iacobucci, Sfyrla, Scampoli) 17
SND@LHC EPFL (Schneider, Shchutska) 33
NA62 EPFL (Marchevski) 33
Astroparticle physics
AMS Geneva Wu 63
ArDM ETHZ Rubbia 7
CTA ETHZ, EPFL, Geneva, Zurich Biland, Charbon, Montaruli, Neronov 210
DAMIC Zurich Kilminster 10
DAMPE Geneva, EPFL Perrina, Tykhonov ?
DARWIN Bern, Zurich Baudis 24
HERD EPFL Perrina
IceCube Geneva Montaruli 50
MAGIC+FACT ETHZ Biland 24-4
XENON Bern, Zurich Baudis 27
Neutrino physics
GERDA Zurich Baudis 18
NA61 / T2K / HyperK Bern, ETHZ, Geneva Sanchez, Rubbia 33-63-75
DUNE Bern Weber 175
SHiP EPFL, Zurich Kilminster, Shchutska, Serra 53
High-precision and muon physics
CREMA/HyperMu ETHZ, PSI Antognini, Kirch, Soter 9
muCool ETHZ, PSI Antognini, Hildebrandt, Kirch, Papa, Piegsa 4
GBAR ETHZ Crivelli 18
MEG II PSI Hildebrandt, Ritt 15
Mu3e ETHZ, Geneva, PSI, Zurich Dissertori, Hildebrandt, Ritt, Serra, Wallny 8
MuMass ETH, PSI Crivelli, Antognini, Kirch, Soter, 3
nEDM/n2EDM ETHZ, PSI, Bern Kirch, Lauss, Piegsa 15
LEMING ETHZ, PSI Antognini, Kirch, Soter, Crivelli 3
PIONEER ETHZ, PSI Soter, Caminada 24
Other
Medical Bern Braccini, Scampoli
Novel Detectors Bern Kreslo,
Ion-Beam Physics ETHZ Synal
DRD4 EPFL Blanc, Marchevski, Schneider, Shchutska, Wallny ~70
In parallel to these experimental collaborations and projects, Swiss theorists are involved in numerous international collaborations. The prominent ones, in which Swiss theory institutes are key players, is:
* The LHC Higgs cross-section working group (LHCHXSWG) created in 2010 to produce agreements on cross sections, branching ratios and pseudo-observables relevant to the Higgs boson: M. Spira (PSI) was involved in the LHC Higgs cross-section working group responsible for the HDecay Manual.
At the University of Bern, the work on the review of lattice results continues. It is related to pion, kaon, D- and B-meson physics with the aim of making them easily accessible to the particle physics community.
Tobias Golling (U. Geneva) co-uninitiated EuCAIF: European initiative for advancing the use of AI in Fundamental Physics since 2023.
Institutional collaboration (in alphabetical order):
Several CHIPP Board members are acting as official delegates to international organizations in 2024 or/and serve special roles for the CHIPP community:
- Stefan Antusch (U. Basel) is a member of the FCC International Collaboration Board.
- Thea Klæboe Årrestad (ETHZ) is co-coordinator of the Fast Machine Learning Lab, an international research collective focusing on fast Machine Learning inference for science and technology is Klæboe Årrestad Targeted Systems Coordinator in the Accelerated AI Algorithms for Data-Driven Discovery (A3D3) Institute Kind: multi-disciplinary and geographically distributed entity with the primary mission to lead a paradigm shift in the application of real-time artificial intelligence (AI) at scale to advance scientific knowledge and accelerate discovery.
- Hans Peter Beck (U. Bern) represents Switzerland in the European Physical Society Council. He is the Swiss representative in IUPAP as of 1 January 2019.
- Laura Baudis (UZH) is member of the Dark Matter advisory committee. She is the APPEC Scientific Advisory Committee chair. She is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, and also member of the Research Committee for Particle Physics at the PSI HIPA.
- Bernhard Lauss (PSI) serve since several years as a member of the "Neutron Science Proposal Review Committee (NSPRC) at the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF) of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J PARC) and as a Cross-Tokai Expert Panel member of the Proposal Evaluation Committee".
- Frédéric Blanc (EPFL) is one of the Swiss representatives in PECFA. He was elected LHCb Physics Coordinator; his 2-year mandate started in August 2024.
- Florencia Canelli (UZH) has been a member of commission C11 of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) on particles and fields since Nov. 2014. She was elected secretary of the IUPAP C11 Commission on 1 January 2018 for 4 years. She is a member of the Physics Advisory Committee of Fermilab, member of LHCP international advisory committee and member of the Dark Matter workshop advisory committee. She is CMS physics coordinator. Since January 2023 she is the Swiss scientific delegate to the CERN Council on mandate of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
- Gilberto Colangelo (U. Bern) is a member of the Research Committee for Particle Physics at the PSI HIPA. He is the Swiss representative for the ECT*.
- Paolo Crivelli (ETHZ) is coordinator of the NuPECC working Group "Symmetries and Fundamental Interactions”.
- Mauro Donegá (ETHZ) is member of the Steering Committee of the LHC Higgs Working group.
- Günther Dissertori (ETHZ) is the ETHZ Rector.
- Klaus Kirch (ETHZ and PSI), Vice-Chair of the Scientific Council of the Excellence Cluster PRISMA+ in Mainz/Germany, is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Stefan-Meyer-Institute in Vienna/Austria, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik in Heidelberg/Germany. Kirch is the Swiss NuPECC delegate.
- Radoslav Marchevski (EPFL) is a CKM2025 rare decays session convener; is a a member of the working group on flavour physics for the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics.
- Teresa Montaruli (U. Geneva) is the vice-President and since Sept. 2023 President of the Swiss Physical Society, Coordinator of the CTAO-CH collaboration of Swiss Institutes working in the CTAO Observatory in the SERI research infrastructure roadmap and scientific delegate in the CTAO Council for Switzerland. She has been the chair of the APPEC General Assembly in 2021-22 and was a member of the LNGS Scientific Advisory Committee.
- Katharina Müller (UZH) has been the Swiss representative in the IPPOG Collaboration since September 2017. She is in charge of Outreach and Education in CHIPP, and she is also member of the LHCTop Working group.
- Tatsuya Nakada (EPFL, Prof. Emeritus) is chair of the Executive Board of the ILC International Development Team since August 2020.
- Stefan Ritt (PSI) is chair of the Educational Committee of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society NPSS of IEEE.
- Olivier Schneider (EPFL) is a member of the Particle Data Group; he has been the chair of the LHCb collaboration board since December 2020 (second 2-year mandate).
- Lesya Shchutska (EPFL) is a member of the SPS executive committee since 2022, chairing the section on Nuclear, Particle and Astrophysics (TASK); she is a member of the LHCP International Advisory Committee since 2021 and till 2025; she is a CKM2025 program committee member; she is a member of the working group on BSM physics for the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics.
- Rainer Wallny (ETHZ) is a member of the LBNC committee of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and member of the EPS HEPP board. Wallny is the RECFA representative for Switzerland in 2023/24.
- Marcelle Soares Dos Santos (UZH) is a member of the High-Energy Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP) since September 2023, the panel advised the US funding agencies DOE and NSF on its funding for HEP science, she was also a member of the physics Program Advisory Committee of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory until December 2023 and elected member of the executive committee of the American Physical Society Division of Gravitational Physics.
- Michele Weber (U. Bern) is member of RECFA representing Switzerland.
- Xin Wu (U. Geneva) has been re-elected as CHIPP observer in the Swiss Commission on Space Research.
Several CHIPP members were committed to international responsibilities:
- Angela Benelli (CHIPP) has been the Swiss member of the European Particle Physics Communication Network (EPPCN) since June 2017.
- Victor Gorbenko (EPFL) is a member of the Simons Collaboration on Confinement and QCD Strings.
- Luigi Marchese is a member of the Organising Committee of the Italian Oxbridge Society and member of the Zurich and Geneva Oxbridge club.
- Mike Seidel (EPFL/PSI) is chairing the CERN machine advisory committee CMAC.
Promotion of the next generation
One of the main objectives for CHIPP is to attract the young public to Physics and Astroparticle Physics. To achieve this goal, more than 50 educational events, such as information days for BSc and MSc students, for pupils finishing high school and for high-school classes, were organized, throughout Switzerland, involving more than 4000 young students.
High school students:
Stefan Antusch gave two targeted talks to gymnasium students.
More than (85 UZH, ) Swiss high-school pupils were invited to participate in the International Masterclasses ‘Hands on Particle Physics’, where over 13’000 Gymnasium level students in about 215 institutes over 52 countries can actually work with real data from the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). EPFL’s High-Energy Physics Lab organized LHCb Masterclasses at EPFL on 27.2.2024 and 22.5.2024, each time with ~ 25 participants (so ~50 participants in total).
Two information days for future students were organised at the University of Zurich, 100 students in each session participated, and two information days for pupils (200 in each session) in the last year before their Matura/baccalaureate.
23 Workshops for school classes: 460 participants (UZH)
2 Information events at Schools: 150 participants (UZH)
Antoine Vuignier (EPFL) lectured and tutored at an outreach school on 8-12.04.2024 organized by EPFL’s education outreach department, with the participation of 24 high-school students.
An EPFL team of researchers organised two visits at the High-Energy Physics Lab at EPFL:
o 08.04.2024: visit of High-Energy Physics Lab at EPFL for 24 high-school students
o 14.06.2024: visit of High-Energy Physics Lab at EPFL for 12 high-school students from Geneva
Six information days for other school classes 120 participants were organised at the University of Zurich, Thea Aarrestad and Patrick Odagiu held lab visits for 12 high school students visiting ETH.
Workshops for school classes: 23, 460 participants (UZH)
Information events at Schools: 2, 150 participants (UZH)
Teacher program:
UZH organised an event for 10 teachers.
Thea Aarrestad taught at CERN International Teachers Week program for 42 teachers from 33 countries. She also taught at the Norwegian Teachers Program for ~30-40 high school physics teachers.
Visits to CERN:
Several visits were organised to CERN:
Visit Name N. participants Guide
SAFIR group – CMS 7 R. Seidita (ETHZ)
GBAR visit for IPA people 10 C. Regenfus (ETHZ)
IPA students visit – CMS 3 R. Seidita (ETHZ)
United Nations Women’s Guild (Geneva) ATLAS SGW 48 Z. Zahariev
SNSF - CMS, Data Center, SGW 34 R. Seidita D Valsecchi
IPA Students visit - CMS 5 R. Seidita
Armenian Young Musicians - CMS 12 B. Idzior
PSI CMS underground visit 20 C. Lange (PSI)
LHCb detector for general public 12 EPFL
LHCb detector for alumni from Cornell University 21 EPFL
LHCb detector for high school students 24 EPFL
Visit Italian student 1 S. Schramm (UGe)
Visits to PSI:
G. Bison, U. Greuter, K. Kirch, A. Knecht, B. Lauss participate in the guided tour program at PSI (addressing the general public, school classes, university excursions, see this link. A total of 10’000 – 15’000 people visit PSI per year through this tour program.
Information and coordination tasks supporting research and science
CHIPP’s website contains news, documents, minutes of all meetings, as well as the link to the complete membership database. The continuous dialogue between the institutes, which is enshrined in the CHIPP Statutes and By-Laws, aims at having at hand, in a timely and transparent manner, the information about current and planned research activities. As in previous years, CHIPP took an active role in the biannual meetings of SCNAT’s Round Table International Organisations and Research Infrastructures. The scope of this information forum is the exchange between the research fields involving large, international infrastructures. It accounts for the participation of Swiss groups in international research facilities and comprises representatives of the SERI, SNSF, and “Swiss universities”.
Dialogue with society
The SCNAT offered a firm place with increased visibility among the other fields of science for both the CHIPP website and the more general Physics outreach website (‘particlephysics.ch’). The site was kept lively throughout 2024 with the addition of 8 interviews and other news articles. As approved by the CHIPP Board, the articles are authored by B. Warmbein, a science journalist collaborating with CHIPP since many years. Katharina Müller (the University of Zurich) is responsible for their scientific content and Angela Benelli inserted them on the SCNAT portal in Italian, German and English. CHIPP is grateful to SCNAT for supporting this activity as an important dialogue with the society.
During 2024 the CHIPP X/Twitter account @CHIPP_news has continuously spread physics news to increase the public awareness about science and publicized available jobs in academia and outside for physicists.
With A. Benelli as the Swiss member in the European Particle Physics Communication Network (EPPCN), CHIPP continues its link between the CERN press office and the Swiss media, as well as with the communication offices of the institutes related to CHIPP. The contact has been established and a measure of the media coverage of particle physics in Switzerland is provided on-line. Fred Blanc (EPFL), as Physics Coordinator of the LHCb experiment (2-year mandate from 01.08.2024 to 31.07.2026) is directly involved in the preparation, selection and overview of all LHCb articles appearing the CERN Courier, as LHCb news and generally for all communication and dissemination of the LHCb physics results.
Several articles and talks have been published in magazines and on the CHIPP website, here are some of them:
Talk & Music in a church: Das Rätsel der Antimaterie (K. Müller), Kirche Meilen
Podcast (Kortizes Podcast Wo stehen wir mit dem Standardmodell der Teilchenphysik, Olaf Steinkamp)
All the dark we cannot see - searching for invisible matter in the Milky Way, European Academy of Sciences and Art (Laura Baudis)
Auf der Suche nach dunkler Materie Volkshochschule Zürich (Laura Baudis)
Die verborgene Seite des Universums - auf der Suche nach dunkler Materie
Aargauische naturforschende Gesellschaft und Astronomische Vereinigung Aarau
Naturama(Laura Baudis)
Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit der Neutrinos, Senioren-Kolleg Liechtenstein (Laura Baudis)
Erhellendes zur Dunkle Materie, Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur Mainz (Laura Baudis)
Das Rätsel der Antimaterie, Science & Nature Festival, Zurich (Katharina Müller)
Gravitational Waves, Long Night of Museums, Zurich (Marcelle Soares Santos)
Die Suche nach Dunkler Materie , Long Night of Museums, Zurich (Björn Penning)
Ask a physicist, Long Night of Museums, Zurich (Katharina Müller)
Paolo Crivelli, Interview on the radio SFR 23.3.2024, " Gekühlte Antimaterie (positronium Laser cooling)"
G. Dissertori gave a talk at EPT-hub (an ETH camp on teaching skills) Die 200CHF Note / Prof. Günther Dissertori (ETH Rector, CH). G. Dissertori gave a talk at the Swiss Physical Society: 70 year CERN
Lea Caminada, Volkshochschule Zürich Ringvorlesung (Oct 2024), Was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält: Die Suche nach den kleinsten Teilchen.
Amrutha Samalan, Central University of Karnataka, India (July 2024), Muon Detector Development for the CMS Phase-2 Upgrade and Muon Radiography
Amrutha Samalan, Kendriya Vidyalaya Kalpetta, India (Dez 2024), Higgs
Articles:
"First Results in the Search for Dark Sectors at NA64 with the CERN SPS High Energy Muon Beam”, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.211803 P. Crivelli corresponding author, highlighted by APS in physics
Lea Caminada, PSI news (Jan 2024) FCC https://www.psi.ch/en/news/psi-stories/a-plan-for-the-worlds-biggest-machine
Lea Caminada, Nature spotlight (April 2024) Impact of CERN for Switzerland https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01100-w
Lea Caminada, Blue new (Juli 2024) Frauen in der Physik https://www.bluewin.ch/de/news/schweiz/gesellschaft-bringt-frauen-bei-sich-nicht-fuer-wissenschaft-zu-interessieren-2268567.html
Lea Caminada, Sonntagsblick (August 2024) Portrait https://www.blick.ch/life/wissen/naturwissenschaften/physikerin-lea-caminada-forschergeist-ist-eine-urmenschliche-eigenschaft-id20024487.html
Lea Caminada, Coop magazine (August 2024) Cover and Portrait https://epaper.cooperation.ch/_deploy/CE/20240820/CE13/20240819100638665/whole/CE_20240820_CE13.pdf
Lea Caminada, Dein Spiegel (November 2024) Mein Beruf - Jobs erklärt
Exhibitions
UNEARTH (Science Pavilion UZH) Arts&Science
Gravitational Waves (Science Pavilion UZH)
LHCb (Science Pavilion UZH)
Dark Matter Searches (Science Pavilion UZH)
(UZH) 35 guided tours through the physics exhibitions (about 300 participants)
Science & Nature Festival: on the Campus Irchel UZH:
Talks (Antimatter)
Science Booth with small experiments
Workshops in the mechanical workshop
Workshop ‘build your own cloud chamber’
Theater ‘Three black holes’
guided tours
Long Night of Museums: in the Science Pavilion UZH
Ask a Physicist – direct interaction with the visitors
Talk: Search for Dark Matter
Talk: Discovery of Gravitational Waves
Exhibition UZHN/EARTH – Arts & Science 1600 m below ground
1600 meters below ground at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) in South Dakota (USA), researchers are searching for answers to the universe's greatest mysteries such as neutrinos and dark matter. As artist in residence at SURF, Prof. Gina Gibson created artworks inspired by the extraordinary environment of the research facility that visualize the search for the invisible. The exhibition opened in August 2025.
Artwork by Gina Gibson: Opening of the exhibition with Gina Gibson.
Physics on Tap: Pint, Chats & Science in a pub, fun night with talks, quiz and speed-meetings with physicists