Framework agreement signed between SAPHIR and Instituto AIEP: behind the formation of new Advanced Human Capital
Today, Thursday, December 5th, a framework agreement was signed between our Millennium Institute, SAPHIR, and the renowned technical-professional school AIEP, part of UNAB. The signing ceremony...
Heavy Ion Collisions: one of the keys to understanding the early universe
Particle Physics is the branch of Physics that studies the fundamental components of matter and the interactions between them. Through experiments in particle accelerators, scientists have discovered that all matter is composed of particles....
FLUKA software simulations in the modeling of calorimeters, gave Pascale Tillería, SAPHIR student, the award for Best Poster on the 1st day of the "XXIV Chilean Physics Symposium SOCHIFI 2024".
The NA64 experiment at CERN is a fixed-target experiment whose purpose is the search for a new vector Boson (A′), called the dark photon, which could mediate the interactions between visible and dark matter. This experiment was...
SAPHIR students travel to CERN: Epicenter of Particle Physics
Enhancing the formation of advanced human capital and supporting training at both undergraduate and graduate levels has been one of the main missions of our institute throughout its first 5 years of existence. Strengthening and forging new networks of...
The giant universe opened up by particle microscopes
The development of new knowledge, at the forefront of technologies and the dynamism that characterizes the scientific community, is undoubtedly an important and complex task. The time required to collect data and background information that builds up...
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 the NA-64 experiment at CERN Professor Sergey Kuleshov was appointed Collaboration Board Chair of the NA-64 experiment at CERN. Highlighting the scientific and management quality of the...
New ATLAS challenges: The role of flexes in the face of information delivered by Silicon Pixels
The ATLAS experiment is one of the detectors that make up CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Through its application and operation, it has been possible to investigate a wide range of concepts and phenomena related to modern physics, among them,...
Francisca Garay, Saphir's alternate director, participated in a prestigious workshop on elementary subatomic particles in France, and in "ATLAS Week".
The third edition of the "ECFA Workshop on e+e- Higgs Top Electroweak factories" was held in Paris on October 9 and 11. This event closes a series of workshops on electron (e+e-) physics, experiments and detectors. The event was attended by...
Successful meeting between the Chilean Mission in Geneva and SAPHIR with a view to fostering scientific cooperation
In Geneva, Switzerland, a significant meeting took place between the Millennium Institute SAPHIR and representatives of the Chilean Mission in Geneva, in which they discussed the scenario of international scientific cooperation and presented the work carried out by the Chilean...