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CHIPP is an association uniting researchers active in particle, astroparticle and nuclear physics in Switzerland. It strengthens the Swiss participation in international projects and committees, coordinates research and teaching activities in Switzerland, and promotes public awareness of the field.more

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  • PSI Director Christian Rüegg at the cover of the cyclotron, which represents the third acceleration stage for the proton beam at PSI, which is unique worldwide.
  • The NA62 experiment at CERN
  • Clock
  • Illustration of the upgraded neutrino production devices
  • SWICH Workshop photo
  • EPFL professor Lesya Shchutska wins the Swiss Science Prize Latsis 2023.
  • CHIPP Prize 2023 Anne-Mazarine Lyon
  • Admir Greljo is an expert for flavour phenomenology in Basel
  • EPFL assistant professor Radoslav Marchevski has introduced his specialty – kaon physics – to Switzerland .
  • Two employees from the University of Geneva test components of the FASER particle detector during the experiment's commissioning phase in 2021.
  • The experimental setup at the cyclotron - DIAMON
  • CHIPP WomenInScience 2023
  • CHIPP Winter School 2023
  • Ben Kilminster (circled) watching the announcement of the Higgs discovery in the middle of the night at Fermilab
  • Logo CHIPP
  • Künstlerische Darstellung des geplanten Einstein-Teleskops.
  • Born in Catania, Sicily, Gabriel Cuomo went to Trieste for his master's degree, to Lausanne as a doctoral student, and finally to New York as a postdoc. The picture shows Cuomo during a visit to Switzerland.
  • Comparison between RK measurements. The measurements by the BaBar and Belle collaborations combine B+→K+ℓ+ℓ− and B0→KS0ℓ+ℓ− decays, where ℓ is a lepton. The previous LHCb measurements and the new result [4], which supersedes them, are also shown.
  • CHIPP Roadmap for Research and Infrastructure 2025–2028 and beyond by the Swiss Particle Physics Community
  • The xenon detector at the core of the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment
  • XENON

The Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP) is the bottom-up organisation of Swiss particle and astroparticle physics researchers in Switzerland as a legal entity of Swiss law. CHIPP is tasked with coordinating the national efforts in the realm of particle and astroparticle physics.

This is achieved by keeping a continuous dialogue between the particle physicists of different cantonal universities and federal institutes. CHIPP is recognized as the representative of Swiss particle physics both nationally and internationally. It awards yearly a Prize to a PhD student, supports workshops and conferences, organises PhD schools, and develops outreach projects.

Events, News, Publications

DAMPE Detector
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  • News

Everything, everywhere, all at once in particle physics

It’s always exciting to find a new use for an existing tool. Researchers from Geneva University, Andrii Tykhonov and Paul Coppin, discovered that DAMPE – a detector built to analyze

Image: Video still, Chinese Academy of Science
Members of the Magnet Group, sitting atop the first unit of the PS combined-function magnet. The picture was taken at the Institute of Physics of Geneva University, as CERN was still a muddy construction site at that time. All these people have now retired, but all of the magnets are still pulsing away. Front row (left to right): R.Tinguely, C.Germain, G.Plass, D.Neet, B.de Raad, M.Cavallaro, K.H.Reich, G.Kuhn, J.Nilsson, C.A.Ramm, Paillard. Second row: L.Resegotti, M.Niklaus, C.J.Zilverschoon, R.Bertolotto, Marcellin, G.Brianti, P.Collet. Standing behind: B.Kuiper.
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CERN and Switzerland: Seven decades of close collaboration and some lesser-known facts

2024 is the year that CERN turns 70. Its close connection to Switzerland is no secret, after all the confederation is one of the lab’s host countries and heavily involved

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Zahlen und Formeln (Symbolbild)
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Piles of pile-up data turned to good use

Researcher Steven Schramm and his team from the University of Geneva have found a way to make use of the unloved and unwanted extra-stuff from the collisions of the ATLAS

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Gabriela Araujo, she also competes in science communication contests like Famelab
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CHIPP prize 2024: When physics comes to life

Congratulations to Gabriela Rodrigues Araujo, this year’s winner of the CHIPP prize for the best thesis in particle physics! Gabriela is a neutrino explorer – exploring those events whose particular

Image: Gabriela Araujo

Contact

Swiss Institute of Particle Physics (CHIPP)
c/o Prof. Dr. Ben Kilminster
UZH
Department of Physics
36-J-50
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8057 Zürich
Switzerland


CHIPP Executive Board

  • Ben Kilminster (Chair)
  • Michael Spira
  • Paolo Crivelli
  • Tobias Golling

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