In pursuit of new challenges at particle colliders

In pursuit of new challenges at particle colliders

Yohan Oviedo, member of SAPHIR and direct collaborator of Jilberto Zamora (Associate Researcher of the Institute), obtains the Fondecyt Postdoctoral Fellowship. A Colombian national, Yohan is a physicist graduated from the Universidad Surcolombiana and obtained his PhD in Physics...

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SAPHIR Institute at Jóvenes ConCiencia 2024!

SAPHIR Institute at Jóvenes ConCiencia 2024!

SAPHIR students were part of "Jóvenes ConCiencia 2024", an instance in which Master's, Doctorate and Postdoctoral Research students were invited by the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) to a day of reflection and...

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Microelectronics: Challenges and New Horizons for Chile 

Microelectronics: Challenges and New Horizons for Chile 

Microelectronics is a branch of electronic engineering that focuses on the design, fabrication and integration of electronic circuits at microscopic scales. It uses advanced technologies to create devices such as transistors, semiconductors and other electronic...

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OPINION COLUMNS

Beauty that breaks the symmetry of the cosmos

Our universe is made primarily of matter, not anti-matter. We are made of atoms, not anti-atoms. However, antimatter exists. Since Paul Dirac, in 1928, wrote a famous equation that treats space and time in the same way...

How muons science girls

Giovanna Cottin | Research Associate SAPHIR+ see more Muons are elementary particles similar to the electrons in our atoms. But they are not found in atoms. They rain down on us as a cascade of particles from the sky, as they are generated by the...

Chile's arrival at CERN

Giovanna Cottin | Associate Researcher SAPHIR+ see more Recently, the news that CERN, the European center for research in nuclear and particle physics, has accepted Chile as one of its member states has been highlighted in the national media....

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