Learn about the internships we have for you this summer 2024

Learn about the internships we have for you this summer 2024

If you like physics and you are studying a career related to this area, you can participate in one of the internships that the SAPHIR Millennium Institute has available during January 2024. The available projects: 1) Long-lived Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNL) in...

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In memory of Dr. Iván Schmidt Andrade R.I.P.D.

In memory of Dr. Iván Schmidt Andrade R.I.P.D.

We regret the death of Dr. Iván Schmidt Andrade, one of the scientists who contributed to the establishment of one of the first spaces for the study of particle physics in our country at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María. His...

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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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