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Weekly Physics Group Meeting (PGM)
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67668818133
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Hanne Heylen
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    • 2:00 PM → 2:10 PM
      General announcements 10m

      Newsletter, outreach

      CERN matters

      Budget and administration

      Technical

      General

      Speakers: Hanne Heylen (CERN), Prof. Luis M Fraile (CERN)
    • 2:10 PM → 2:15 PM
      Overview of ISOLDE activities 5m

      https://isolde.web.cern.ch/isolde-hall-activities-ls3

    • 2:15 PM → 2:20 PM
      Safety announcements 5m
      Speakers: Hanne Heylen (CERN), Prof. Luis M Fraile (CERN)
    • 2:20 PM → 2:25 PM
      Visits 5m

      Rota to be found on: https://cernbox.cern.ch/s/qbqEUB41tAvAzWa

      Speakers: Hanne Heylen (CERN), Victoria Vedia (CERN)
    • 2:25 PM → 2:30 PM
      AOB 5m
      • Question for James about electrical accreditation course: how to fill
        out the accreditation form, to be signed by the group leader? /CP
      Speakers: Amy Sparks, Carlotta Porzio (CERN), Christoph Schweiger (Max Planck Society (DE)), Hanne Heylen (CERN), Jessica Warbinek (CERN), Juliana Schell (Institut Fur Materialwissenschaft Universität Duisburg-Essen (DE)), Liss Vazquez Rodriguez (Max Planck Society (DE)), Prof. Luis M Fraile (CERN), Magdalena Kowalska (CERN), Patrick MacGregor (CERN), Peter Plattner, Tim Enrico Lellinger (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics), Victoria Vedia (CERN)
    • 2:30 PM → 3:15 PM
      ISOLDE seminar or Physics presentation by local group 45m

      Title: CosmicPi: from a CERN hackathon to Pole to Pole Muon measurements
      Speaker: James Devine (CERN)
      Abstract: CosmicPi is a low-cost, open-source coincidence-triggered scintillator detector, born at the CERN WebFest in 2012 and since deployed to schools worldwide as a runner-up prize for the CERN Beam Lines for Schools competition. After a request from the Transglobal Car Expedition team in 2023, we ruggedised some spare detectors and recorded muon event rates — alongside GPS, pressure, temperature, and magnetic field data — during the first ever wheeled crossing of the North Pole (January–May 2024), yielding the first published ground-level muon measurement at 90°N and beating PolarquEEEst's prior record of 82°07'N (2018). A complementary dataset extends coverage to the Antarctic and back to the equator via South America using an identical detector. Everything — datasets, schematics, firmware, dashboards — is open source and publicly available at github.com/CosmicPi.

      Speakers: Carlotta Porzio (CERN), Hanne Heylen (CERN), James Devine (CERN), Jessica Warbinek (CERN)
      CosmicPi_Presentation.pdf
      CosmicPi_Presentation.pptx
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