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The swaggers in our project stopped working sometime last week. Is anybody else having the same issue? I have tried different browsers, different operating systems, different computers and nothing worked. The left menu loads usually fine, but clicking individual endpoints does not do anything. I have tried reimporting the files several times, as well recreating the versions, to no avail. I am waiting for an answer from the technical support since the 25th of July 2018. Is there any way for someone to tell me if this is a site-wide issue, or perhaps when this will be fixed? Otherwise, I will have to seek another solution. Thank you for letting me know. Michal
Posted by Michal Krejci about a year ago
The announcements page hasn't been updated in awhile so it would be nice to get an idea of where you're at. We'd like to start writing specs in OpenAPI 3.0. If you're releasing soon we can just do that and convert to 2.0 for a little bit. If you're a year away then that doesn't make as much sense
Posted by Piers MacDonald about a year ago
In the API interaction view, there are two ways to edit the params type of 'array of object'. One is to fill the blank of each params of the object and click the 'Add Object' button. Another is to click the 'Edit Array Json' button and write Json data by myself. I tried the former way, and the data update in the curl panel successfully. BUT I don't know how can I use the latter way to edit Json data and let the Json data show up in the curl panel while I finishing edit.
Posted by chenchen about a year ago
Every time I create a body param with type double or float, it shows up on the real site as an integer. I am attaching pictures below of the bug showing the creation of the param as a double, and how it appears on my site as an integer. https://imgur.com/a/VYFebac https://imgur.com/a/Y7TAWuc
Posted by Ben Kaplan about a year ago
We would like to include basically a copy of parts of the table of contents inline in the page. For example, our sidebar could look like this: ``` A foo bar baz B qua flarb ``` And we would want to have inline in our landing page: ``` Check out all the awesome stuff our app does with A! link to foo link to bar link to baz And also check out the B stuff: link to qua link to flarb ``` Is there a programmatic way to do this? Or would we just have to manually insert the links and update them whenever a new sub-page was added? Thanks for any advice.
Posted by Lindsay about a year ago
The use case scenario for our team is to use ReadMe.io as one stop hub for different API teams to showcase their APIs. The APIs would be viewable to everyone within the organization but APIs would have limited edit access based on teams and users owning them. Has this been implemented yet ? Currently, as PoC I can setup different projects with different team members but the APIs in the teams are displayed in those domain. e.g. I have two projects HelloWorld (helloworld.readme.io) and HelloAPI (helloapi.readme.io). Basically, I want different team members on different projects with edit permissions but to have one central Developer Portal Hub (home page) listing all the APIs in References.
Posted by Shakil Riyad about a year ago
Hello, After regarding the Konwledge base, I've noted that there is no solution to create a custom form, such as a customer enrollment form. Do you know if there is any solution or workaround to develop it directly in readme.io please? Thank you for your answer.
Posted by Paul Lacroix about a year ago
Hi guys, I've imported swagger .json file to readme.io in Reference section. It seems like readme autogenerates the request examples, like curl --request POST \ --url http://example.com/v1/lalala/create The questions are 1) What settings should I change so that the request contains not only query params, but required body params as well. 2) Can I have the request examples in cUrl only, excluding Ruby, Node and other languages. 3) If it is not possible to have body params displayed, can I simply disable code auto-generation for the imported .json with API docs? Thanks, Mary
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This account brings you hot items from public particle physics news sources, including CERN, SymmetryMagazine.org, and Interactions.org.
The Milky Way's satellites help reveal link between dark matter halos and galaxy formation
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"The Milky Way's satellites help reveal link between dark matter halos and galaxy formation"
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10 years of LHC physics, in numbers
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"10 years of LHC physics, in numbers"
How do you measure a decade of LHC research?
In 2010, the Large Hadron Collider research program jumped into full swing as scientists started collecting physics data from particle collisions in the LHC for the first time.
How has this gigantic, global scientific effort affected the world? Symmetry pulled together a few numbers to find out.
petabytes of data
In the last decade, LHC experiments collected almost 280 petabytes of data, which scientists recorded on tape. You would need to stream Netflix 24/7 for more than 15,000 years to eventually use that much data! But from another perspective, platforms like Facebook (which has 2.5 billion users) collect that much data in 70 days!
~8 million
Higgs bosons
While it's impossible to know the actual number of Higgs bosons the LHC has produced (see Accounting for the Higgs), scientists can use the Standard Model's equations to predict how many Higgs bosons the LHC should have produced. Scientists consider all the different ways Higgs bosons can be made, the likelihood of each process, and the energy and total number of collisions. Studying those Higgs bosons, scientists have precisely defined the mass, charge, spin and half-life of the Higgs. They continue to examine the many different ways the Higgs interacts with other particles and use it as a tool to search for new physics beyond the Standard Model.
scientific papers
Every week the number of scientific papers that LHC scientists have published steadily increases as they comb through the data to study rare phenomena and search for new physics. This includes work by thousands of graduate students on their way to earning their PhDs.
7.5 billion
Worldwide LHC Computing Grid requests
Physicists need a huge amount of computing power to do their research—much more than a standard laptop can support. Every day several thousand physicists submit a total of about 2 million "jobs" to the WLCG. Each "job" is an important brick in the growing body of scientific work.
39.5 quadrillion
The number of collisions recorded by the four main experiments at the LHC is close to 4 quadrillion, or, as physicists say it, 395 "inverse femtobarns." (Each inverse femtobarn corresponds to about 100 trillion collisions.) For reference, the LHC's predecessor—the Tevatron particle collider at the US Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory—delivered a then-unprecedented more than 20 fb-1 to its two experiments over the course of 25 years of proton-antiproton collisions. Now the number of LHC collisions recorded by just the ATLAS or CMS experiment (~190 fb-1) is equivalent to the total number of ants on Earth.
new partners
CERN is governed by 23 member states, but scientists from more than 600 institutions around the world work on the experiments and projects it hosts. Since 2010, CERN has formally added 15 new countries—Albania, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Mongolia, Nepal, Palestine, Paraguay, the Philippines, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Tunisia—to its research community through official bilateral cooperation agreements. Today, the total number of collaborating countries is around 80. US institutions are supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Science.
microgram of protons
When running, the LHC has more than 300 trillion protons circling through its two beampipes. But they're so tiny that even if you combined all the protons accelerated in the machine since 2010, they would only amount to a pile about the size of a speck of pollen.
>1 million
CERN has hosted more than 45,000 guided tours in 32 languages through its public visit program, allowing more than 1 million visitors to discover the work of the world's biggest physics laboratory. And for two special Open Day weekends—one in 2013 and another in 2019—CERN welcomed an average of 36,000 visitors a day! That's roughly the same daily average as Disneyland Paris. Open Day visitors had access to numerous sites such as the LHC tunnel that are normally only accessible to authorized personnel.
Each year the Arts at CERN program invites artists to work alongside particle physicists and engineers at CERN. The resulting installations, choreography and multimedia projects travel the world and inspire countless art and science enthusiasts. In 2019, for example, more than 80,000 visitors took in the traveling exhibit Quantum/Broken Symmetries, which featured pieces by 10 artists who did work at CERN.
public events
The Globe of Science and Innovation at CERN isn't just an iconic landmark; it's also a venue for conferences, shows, panels, film screenings and artistic performances. Since 2010, about 40,000 visitors have attended an event hosted by CERN inside the Globe. CERN also organizes events in the local community, including talks at schools, science fairs and panel discussions at movie theaters.
computing collaborations
Since 2010, CERN openlab has set up over 50 collaborative projects through which CERN computer scientists work with leading tech companies on joint R&D. The companies get to test their latest products in CERN's cutting-edge research environment, and CERN gets the chance to try out emerging technologies. For example, current projects with companies Intel and Micron are exploring how machine learning can be used to further improve the processing of data from particle collisions. At the same time, projects with Oracle and Siemens are using such technologies to help improve control systems for the LHC.
knowledge transfer projects
CERN's Knowledge Transfer department collaborates with academic and industrial organizations to find new uses outside of particle physics research for technology developed at CERN. Since 2010, CERN has signed more than 300 knowledge transfer contracts with universities and companies working in fields such as safety, medtech and aerospace engineering. A notable collaboration is a father-and-son medical team who used CERN Medipix read-out chips to develop the world's first 3D color X-ray in 2018.
CERN's national and international teacher programs welcome groups of educators to the lab for anywhere between three days and two weeks. During their stays, teachers visit experiments, talk with physicists, and discuss ways to bring modern physics into their classrooms. More than 10,000 educators have participated.
summer students
Since 2010 almost 3,000 undergraduates have participated in the CERN summer student programs, including more than 150 students from the United States. These students receive training, tutoring and mentorship as they dip their toes into real scientific research and learn what particle physics is all about.
~10 million
cups of coffee
The restaurants at CERN go through about 30 kilograms of coffee a day. Considering every kilogram of coffee generally makes between 120 and 140 cups, that's roughly 4,000 cups a day!
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Week 11 at the Pole
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"Week 11 at the Pole"
It finally happened—the lowering sun disappeared below the horizon at the South Pole, leaving everything in dusk.
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Why some diseases come and go with the seasons, and how to develop smarter, safer chemicals
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"Why some diseases come and go with the seasons, and how to develop smarter, safer chemicals"
On this week's show, host Joel Goldberg gets an update on the coronavirus pandemic from Senior Correspondent Jon Cohen. In addition, Cohen gives a rundown of his latest feature, which highlights the relationship between diseases and changing seasons—and how this relationship relates to a potential coronavirus vaccine. Also this week, from a recording made at this year's AAAS annual meeting in Seattle, host Meagan Cantwell speaks with Alexandra Maertens, director of the Green Toxicology initiative at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, about the importance of incorporating nonanimal testing methods to study the adverse effects of chemicals. This week's episode was edited by Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: Let Ideas Compete/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
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I vincitori della selezione locale di L'Aquila FameLab 2020
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"I vincitori della selezione locale di L'Aquila FameLab 2020"
Quest'anno la selezione locale FameLab 2020, organizzata dai Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso dell'INFN, dall'Università degli Studi dell'Aquila e dal Gran Sasso Science Institute, si è svolta in maniera virtuale.
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Three national laboratories achieve record magnetic field for accelerator focusing magnet
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"Three national laboratories achieve record magnetic field for accelerator focusing magnet"
Three national laboratories achieve record magnetic field for accelerator focusing magnetPress Releasexeno Thu, 03/19/2020 - 11:011220
In a multiyear effort involving three national laboratories from across the United States, researchers have successfully built and tested a powerful new magnet based on an advanced superconducting material. The eight-ton device — about as long as a semi-truck trailer — set a record for the highest field strength ever recorded for an accelerator focusing magnet and raises the standard for magnets operating in high-energy particle colliders.
The Department of Energy's Fermilab, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory designed, built and tested the new magnet, one of 16 they will provide for operation in the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider at CERN laboratory in Europe. The 16 magnets, along with another eight produced by CERN, serve as "optics" for charged particles: They will focus beams of protons into a tiny, infinitesimal spot as they approach collision inside two different particle detectors.
The ingredient that sets these U.S.-produced magnets apart is niobium-tin – a superconducting material that produces strong magnetic fields. These will be the first niobium-tin quadrupole magnets ever to operate in a particle accelerator.
"This accomplishment is a major milestone for the High-Luminosity LHC project, which relies heavily on the success of the niobium-tin superconducting magnet technology," said Lucio Rossi, project leader of the High-Luminosity LHC project.
The ingredient that sets these U.S.-produced magnets apart is niobium-tin – a superconducting material that produces strong magnetic fields.
Like the current Large Hadron Collider, its high-luminosity successor will smash together beams of protons cruising around the 17-mile ring at close to the speed of light. The High Luminosity LHC will pack an additional punch: It will provide 10 times the collisions that are possible at the current LHC. With more collisions come more opportunities to discover new physics.
And the machine's new focusing magnets will help it achieve that leap in delivered luminosity.
"We've demonstrated that this first quadrupole magnet behaves successfully and according to design, based on the multiyear development effort made possible by DOE investments in this new technology," said Fermilab scientist Giorgio Apollinari, head of the U.S. Accelerator Upgrade Project, which leads the U.S.-based focusing-magnet project.
"It's a very cutting-edge magnet, really on the edge of magnet technology," said Brookhaven National Laboratory scientist Kathleen Amm, the Brookhaven representative for the Accelerator Upgrade Project.
What makes it successful is its impressive ability to focus.
Focus, magnets, focus
In circular colliders, two beams of particles race around the ring in opposite directions. An instant before they reach the collision point, each beam passes through a series of magnets that focus the particle beams into a tiny, infinitesimal spot, much the way lenses focus light rays to a point. Now packed as tightly with particles as the magnets can get them — smash! — the beams collide.
The scientific fruitfulness of that smash depends on how dense the beam is. The more particles that are crowded into the collision point, the greater the chance of particle collisions.
You get those tightly packed beams by sharpening the magnet's focus. One way to do that is to widen the lens. Consider light:
"If you try to focus the light from the sun using a magnifying glass at a small point, you want to have a more 'powerful' magnifying glass," said Ian Pong, Berkeley Lab scientist and one of the control account managers.
A larger magnifying glass focuses more of the sun's rays than a smaller one. However, the light rays at the outer rim of the lens have to be bent more sharply in order to approach the same focal point.
Or consider a group of archers shooting arrows at an apple: More arrows will stick if the archers shoot from above, below and either side of the apple than if they are stationed at one post, firing from the same position.
The analog of the magnifying glass size and the archer array is the magnet's aperture — the opening of the passageway the beam takes as it barrels through the magnet's interior. If the particle beam is allowed to start wide before being focused, more particles will arrive at the intended focal point — the center of the particle detector.
The U.S. team widened the LHC focusing magnet's aperture to 150 millimeters, more than double the current aperture of 70 millimeters.
But of course, a wider aperture isn't enough. There is still the matter of actually focusing the beam, which means forcing a dramatic change in the beam's size, from wide to narrow, by the time the beam reaches the collision point. And that requires an exceptionally strong magnet.
"The magnet has to squeeze the beam more powerfully than the LHC's present magnets in order to create the luminosity needed for the HL-LHC," Apollinari said.
"The magnet has to squeeze the beam more powerfully than the LHC's present magnets in order to create the luminosity needed for the HL-LHC," Apollinari said.
To meet the demand, scientists designed and constructed a muscular focusing magnet, calculating that, at the required aperture, it would have to generate a field exceeding 11.4 teslas. This is up from the current 7.5-tesla field generated by the niobium-titanium-based LHC quadrupole magnets. (For accelerator experts: The HL-LHC integrated luminosity goal is 3,000 inverse femtobarns.)
In January, the three-lab team's first HL-LHC focusing magnet delivered above the goal performance, achieving an 11.5-tesla field and running continuously at this strength for five straight hours, just as it would operate when the High-Luminosity LHC starts up in 2027.
"These magnets are the currently highest-field focusing magnets in accelerators as they exist today," Amm said. "We're really pushing to higher fields, which allows us to get to higher luminosities."
The new focusing magnet was a triumph, thanks to niobium-tin.
Magnet makers: Three U.S. labs are building powerful magnets for the world's largest powerful collider from Berkeley Lab.
Niobium-tin for the win
The focusing magnets in the current LHC are made with niobium-titanium, whose intrinsic performance limit is generally recognized to have been reached at 8 to 9 teslas in accelerator applications.
The HL-LHC will need magnets with around 12 teslas, about 250,000 times stronger than the Earth's magnetic field at its surface.
"So what do you do? You need to go to a different conductor," Apollinari said.
Accelerator magnet experts have been experimenting with niobium-tin for decades. Electrical current coursing through a niobium-tin superconductor can generate magnetic fields of 12 teslas and higher — but only if the niobium and tin, once mixed and heat-treated to become superconductive, can stay intact.
"Once they're reacted, it becomes a beautiful superconductor that can carry a lot of current, but then it also becomes brittle," Apollinari said.
Famously brittle.
"If you bend it too much, even a little bit, once it's a reacted material, it sounds like corn flakes," Amm said. "You actually hear it break."
Over the years, scientists and engineers have figured out how to produce niobium-tin superconductor in a form that is useful. Guaranteeing that it would hold up as the star of an HL-LHC focusing magnet was another challenge altogether.
Berkeley, Brookhaven and Fermilab experts made it happen. Their assembly process is a delicate, involved operation balancing niobium-tin's fragility against the massive changes in temperature and pressure it undergoes as it becomes the primary player in a future collider magnet.
The process starts with wires containing niobium filaments surrounding a tin core, provided by an outside manufacturer. The wires are then fabricated into cables at Berkeley in just the right way. The teams at Brookhaven and Fermilab then wind these cables into coils, careful to avoid deforming them excessively. They heat the coils in a furnace in three temperature stages, a treatment that takes more than a week. During heat treatment the tin reacts with the filaments to form the brittle niobium-tin.
Having been reacted in the furnace, the niobium-tin is now at its most fragile, so it is handled with care as the team cures it, embedding it in a resin to become a solid, strong coil.
That coil is now ready to serve as one of the focusing magnet's four poles. The process takes several months for each pole before the full magnet can be assembled.
"Because these coils are very powerful when they are energized, there is a lot of force trying to push the magnet apart," Pong said. "Even if the magnet is not deforming, at the conductor level there will be a strain, to which niobium-tin's performance is very sensitive. The management of the stress is very, very important for these high-field magnets."
Heat treating the magnet coils — one of the intermediate steps in the magnet's assembly — is also a subtle science. Each of the four coils of an HL-LHC focusing magnet weighs about one ton and has to be heat-treated evenly — inside and out.
"You have to control the temperature well. Otherwise the reaction will not give us the best performance. It's a bit like cooking," Pong said.
"You have to control the temperature well. Otherwise the reaction will not give us the best performance," Pong said. "It's a bit like cooking. It's not just to achieve the temperature in one part of the coil but in the entire coil, end to end, top to bottom, the whole thing."
And the four coils have to be aligned precisely with one another.
"You need very high field precision, so we have to have very high precision in how they align these to get good magnetic-field uniformity, a good quadrupole field," Amm said.
The fine engineering that goes into the U.S. HL-LHC magnets has sharpened over decades, with a payoff that is energizing the particle accelerator community.
"This will be the first use of niobium-tin in accelerator focusing magnets, so it will be pretty exciting to see such a complex and sophisticated technology get implemented into a real machine," Amm said.
"We were always carrying the weight of responsibility, the hope in the last 10, 20 years — and if you want to go further, 30, 40 years — focusing on these magnets, on conductor development, all the work," Pong said. "Finally, we are coming to it, and we really want to make sure it is a lasting success."
The many moving parts of an accelerator collaboration
Ensuring lasting success has as much to do with operational choreography as it does with exquisite engineering. Conducting logistics that span years and a continent requires painstaking coordination.
"Planning and scheduling are very important, and they're quite challenging," Pong said. "For example, transportation communication: We have to make sure that things are well-protected. Otherwise these expensive items can be damaged, so we have to foresee issues and prevent them. Delays also have an impact on the whole project, so we have to ensure components are shipped to destination in a timely schedule."
Amm, Apollinari, Pong and Rossi acknowledge that the three-U.S.-lab team and CERN have met the challenges capably, operating as a well-oiled machine.
"The technologies developed at Fermilab, Brookhaven and Berkeley helped make the original LHC a success. And now again, these technologies out of the U.S. are really helping CERN be successful. It's a dream team, and it's an honor to be a part of it," Amm said.
"This full-length, accelerator-ready magnet performance record is a real textbook case for international collaboration in the accelerator domain: Since the very beginning, the U.S. labs and CERN teamed up and managed to have a common and very synergic R&D, particularly for the quadrupole magnet that is the cornerstone of the upgrade," Rossi said. "This has resulted in substantial savings and improved output."
From now until about 2025, the U.S. labs will continue to build the large, hulking tubes, starting with fine strands of niobium and tin. They plan to begin delivering in 2022 the first of 16 magnets, plus four spares, to CERN. Installation will take place over the three years following.
"This success in the U.S. is a very good omen for the test of the CERN quadrupole magnet, a twin companion of the U.S. quadrupole. It also nicely complements the successful test in July 2019 at CERN of the 11.2-tesla dipole, which will be the first high field niobium-tin magnet to be installed for HL-LHC, in the upcoming months," Rossi said.
"Our magnets are massive superconducting devices, focusing tiny invisible particle beams that are flying close to the speed of light through the bore. It's quite magical," Pong said.
"People say that 'touchdown' is a very beautiful word to describe the landing of an airplane, because you have a huge metal object weighing hundreds of tons, descending from the sky, touching a concrete runway very gently," Pong said. "These magnets are not too different from that. Our magnets are massive superconducting devices, focusing tiny invisible particle beams that are flying close to the speed of light through the bore. It's quite magical."
The magic starts in 2027, when the High-Luminosity LHC comes online.
"We are doing today the work that future young researchers will use in 10 or 20 years from now to push the frontier of human knowledge, just like it happened when I was a young researcher here at Fermilab, using the Tevatron," Apollinari said. "It's a generational passing of the baton. We need to make the machines for the future generations, and with this technology, obviously what we can enable for the future generation is a lot."
Learn more about the High-Luminosity LHC in Symmetry and in an 11-minute Fermilab YouTube video.
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CERN in the coming weeks
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"CERN in the coming weeks"
CERN in the coming weeks cagrigor Wed, 03/25/2020 - 11:56
A lot of our activities are continuing (e.g. physics data analysis, software development, technical studies, administration and so forth), and some teams have actually seen a surge e.g. the IT team that is working hard to provide videoconferencing support for everyone. Our communications team is also very busy!
As of last Friday, CERN has now reduced all activities on-site to those that are essential for the safety and security of the sites and equipment. The number of people with access to the CERN sites is limited; it is considered safe to be on site with regard to COVID-19 as long as people respect the safety measures.
As CERN was moving into the final stage of a long shutdown (Long Shutdown 2 – LS2), no accelerators were operational. The goal of last week was to safely stop all the maintenance, consolidation, and upgrade work that was in progress. The approach is to keep baseline services at CERN running (e.g., ventilation, cooling, electrical supply, safety systems), whilst leaving all material and equipment in a secure state, so that things are ready to restart quickly when operations can begin again. Monitoring during this phase will include on-site checks, with technical infrastructure operators maintaining their usual 24/7 physical presence in our main control room. Extensive on-call support is in place in case of problems.
Now that all activities have been reduced, CERN is now working on how the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will affect the LS2 schedule and other activities and how best to recover when the time comes. The global COVID-19 situation is still evolving; we will continue to monitor ongoing events, and adapt according to what happens in our Host States and across the world.
As we enter safe-mode and prepare to plan for a return to full activity, our thoughts go out to all those touched by the virus.
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A demonstrator magnet produces a record magnet field
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"A demonstrator magnet produces a record magnet field"
A demonstrator magnet produces a record magnet fieldcmenard Wed, 03/25/2020 - 10:06
One of the keys to pushing the energy limits of accelerators is being able to reach higher magnetic fields. CERN and several other laboratories around the world have launched R&D programmes aimed at improving existing magnet technology. In February, a demonstrator magnet using superconducting niobium-tin, cooled to 1.9 kelvins, achieved a peak magnetic field of 16.5 tesla on the conductor, exceeding the previous record of 16.2 tesla in 2015.
The demonstrator, known as an enhanced Racetrack Model Coil (eRMC) magnet, consists of two superimposed flat coils in the shape of a racetrack, hence its name. The coils are produced using a cable composed of multifilament composite wire made of niobium-tin, a superconductor that can reach higher magnetic fields than the niobium-titanium superconductor currently used for the magnets of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The dipole magnets in the LHC operate at a nominal field of 8.3 tesla.
Niobium-tin is the material being used for some of the new magnets in the High-Luminosity LHC, the successor to the LHC, which will make use of dipole and quadrupole magnets generating a magnetic field of around 12 tesla. This increase is already significant in comparison with what can be achieved with niobium-titanium, but niobium-tin will allow even higher magnetic fields to be produced. This potential is now being explored further, notably as part of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study. To reach a collision energy of 100 TeV using a ring with a circumference of 100 km, dipole magnets generating magnetic fields of 16 tesla are needed.
Even though the eRMC demonstrator isn't an accelerator magnet, its configuration allows the performance of niobium-tin conductors to be tested. During the tests, the eRMC magnet, cooled to 1.9 kelvins (the LHC's operating temperature), reached a peak magnetic field on the conductor of 16.5 tesla. At 4.5 kelvins, this field peaked at 16.3 tesla, which corresponds to 98% of the maximum estimated performance of the superconducting cable.
"These results and recent advances with niobium-tin magnets demonstrate the potential of this technology for a next-generation hadron collider," emphasises Luca Bottura, leader of the Magnets, Superconductors and Cryostats (TE-MSC) group at CERN. This record is just one of many promising advances at several laboratories. Another magnet, FRESCA2, which has a 100 mm aperture, reached a magnetic field of 14.6 tesla in 2018 at CERN. FRESCA2 was developed for integration into a test station for superconducting cables. Last year, Fermilab in the United States tested an accelerator-type short model dipole magnet, with a 60 mm aperture, which reached a field of 14.1 tesla at 4.5 kelvins.
The CERN teams will continue their work to develop an accelerator magnet configuration. The eRMC demonstrator will therefore be dismantled and reassembled with a third coil on the median plane to create a 50 mm cavity.
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Scientists search for origin of proton mass
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"Scientists search for origin of proton mass"
Only 1% of the mass of the proton comes from the Higgs field. ALICE scientists examine a process that could help explain the rest.
When protons and nuclei inside the Large Hadron Collider smash directly into each other, their energy can transform into new types of matter such as the famed Higgs boson, known for its association with a field that gives fundamental particles mass. But when nuclei merely graze each other, a different amazing thing happens: They generate some of the strongest magnetic fields in the universe.
These ultra-intense magnetic fields are enabling scientists to peer inside atoms to answer a fundamental question: How do protons get most of their mass?
Protons are made up of fundamental particles called quarks and gluons. Quarks are very light, and, as far as scientists know, gluons have no mass at all. Yet protons are much heavier than the combined masses of the three quarks they each contain.
"There is a lot of publicity about the origin of mass because of the Higgs boson," says Dmitri Kharzeev, a theorist with a joint appointment at Stony Brook University and the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. "But the Higgs is responsible for the mass of the quarks. The rest of it has a different origin."
The origin of mass
Quarks are very light, accounting for only about 1% of the proton's overall mass. The plausible—yet still unproven—theoretical explanation for this discrepancy is related to how quarks move through the vacuum.
This vacuum is not empty, says Sergei Voloshin, a professor at Wayne State University and a member of the ALICE experiment at CERN. The vacuum is actually filled with undulating fields that constantly burp particle-antiparticle pairs into and out of existence.
The three quarks that give protons their identity are forever jostling with these ethereal particle-antiparticle pairs. When one of these quarks gets too close to a vacuum-produced antiquark, it is annihilated and disappears in a burst of energy.
But the proton doesn't wither and die when its quark is zapped out of existence; rather, the partner quark from the vacuum-produced particle-antiparticle pair steps in and takes the annihilated quark's place (a plot twist straight out of The Talented Mr. Ripley).
Scientists think that this incessant interchange of quarks is responsible for making a proton appear more massive than the sum of its quarks.
"Ninety-nine percent of mass might originate from this process of chirality-flipping in the vacuum."
A matter of handedness
From the outside, not much appears to change in this swap. The annihilated quark is immediately replaced by a seemingly identical twin, making this process difficult to observe. Luckily for LHC scientists, they are not exactly identical: Quarks, like people, can be left- or right-handed, a concept called chirality.
Chirality is related to a quantum mechanical property called spin and roughly translates to whether the quark spins clockwise or counterclockwise as it moves along a particular direction through space. (Visualize beads spinning as they slide along a wire.)
Because of the properties of the vacuum, the replacement quark will always have the opposite handedness from the original. That constant flipping of quarks from one handedness to the other is how theorists explain the majority of the proton's mass.
"Ninety-nine percent of mass might originate from this process of chirality flipping in the vacuum," Kharzeev says. "When we step on a scale, the number we see might be the result of these chirality-flipping transitions."
Physics inside a magnetic field
In 2004, when Kharzeev was the head of the Nuclear Theory Group at Brookhaven Lab, he had an idea for how they could experimentally search for evidence of quark chirality flipping, which had never been observed.
Because quarks are charged, they should interact with a magnetic field. "Normally, we never think about this interaction, because the magnetic fields we can create in the laboratory are extremely weak compared to the strength of quarks' interactions with each other," Kharzeev says. "However, we realized that when charged ions are colliding, they are accompanied by an electromagnetic field, and this field can be used to probe the chirality of quarks."
When they did the math, they found that positively charged ions grazing each other inside a particle collider like the LHC will generate a magnetic field two orders of magnitude stronger than the one at the surface of the strongest magnetic field known to exist. This would be enough to override the quarks' strong attraction to each other.
"Measuring the magnetic field's strength and its lifetime was the primary goal of a recent ALICE data analysis," says Voloshin. "The study yielded somewhat unexpected results, but they were still consistent with the existence of the strong magnetic field required for sorting of quarks according to their handedness."
Within a strong magnetic field, a quark's motion is no longer random. The magnetic field automatically sorts quarks according to their chirality, with their handedness steering them toward either the field's north or south pole.
A hearty, hot soup of quarks
It's nearly impossible to catch a quark flipping its chirality inside a proton, Kharzeev says.
"Inside a proton, left-handed quarks transition into right-handed quarks, and right-handed quarks transition back into left-handed quarks," he says. "We will always see a mixture of left- and right-handed quarks."
To study whether quark chirality flipping happens, physicists need to catch several large and unexpected imbalances between the number of right- and left-handed quarks.
Luckily, heavy nuclei collisions produce the perfect conditions for quarks to change their handedness. When two nuclei hit each other at high speeds, their protons and neutrons melt into a quark-gluon plasma, which is one of the hottest and densest materials known to exist in the universe. The liberated quarks swimming through this plasma can shift their identities with ease.
"It's like pretzels before they're baked," Kharzeev says. "You can easily mold the dough and change the twist."
The vacuum of space is not homogeneous—there are knots of gluon field that preferentially twist these doughy quarks one way or the other. If chirality flipping is happening, then scientists should catch an imbalance in the number of left- and right-handed quarks that shoot out from the plasma.
"The average handedness over all the collisions should be the same," Kharzeev says, "but the fluctuations from collision to collision should be very large; we should see some quark-gluon plasmas that are preferentially righted-handed and others that are preferentially left-handed." Due to the presence of magnetic field, the handedness of the plasma translates into observable charge asymmetry of produced particles—this is the "chiral magnetic effect" proposed by Kharzeev.
Shortly after Kharzeev proposed the idea of sorting quarks according to their handedness in the strong magnetic field of colliding nuclei, Voloshin designed a way to test this theory using the ALICE experiment, whose US participation is funded by the Department of Energy. The initial results show evidence for quarks sorting themselves according to chirality. But more research needs to be done before scientists can be sure.
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Color with IceCube
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"Color with IceCube"
Tap into your creativity and try your hand at one of our IceCube-themed coloring sheets. Perfect for calming your mind or unleashing your artistic side.
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Week 10 at the Pole
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"Week 10 at the Pole"
So, is it a watercolor or a photograph? Well, it is a photograph, but the hazy bands of color in the sky make it definitely reminiscent of a watercolor.
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Come previsto dall'art. 103 del D. L. n. 18 del 17.03.2020, si informa che i termini di tutti i procedimenti di gara pendenti alla data del 23 febbraio 2020 o iniziati successivamente a tale data sono sospesi dal 23 febbraio al 15 aprile 2020. Salvo nuove disposizioni di legge, i termini anzidetti riprenderanno a decorrere dal 16 aprile 2020 per la parte residua.
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Ancient artifacts on the beaches of Northern Europe, and how we remember music
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"Ancient artifacts on the beaches of Northern Europe, and how we remember music"
On this week's show, host Joel Goldberg talks with science journalist Andrew Curry about archaeological finds from thousands of years ago along the shores of Northern Europe. Curry outlines the rich history of the region that scientists, citizen scientists, and energy companies have helped dredge up. Also this week, from a recording made at this year's AAAS annual meeting in Seattle, host Meagan Cantwell speaks with Elizabeth Margulis, a professor at Princeton University, about musical memory. Margulis explains what research tells us about how our brains process music, and dives into her own study on how Western and non-Western audiences interpret the same song differently. This week's episode was edited by Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast [Image: Sebastian Reinecke/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
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New Call for GSSI PhD Applications 2020/21 now open
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"New Call for GSSI PhD Applications 2020/21 now open"
The GSSI – Gran Sasso Science Institute offers 30 PhD scholarships in the following fields: Astroparticle Physics (8 scholarships), Mathematics in Natural, Social and Life Sciences (8), Computer Science (7), Regional Science and Economic Geography (7).
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Looking for dark matter in the center of the Milky Way
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"Looking for dark matter in the center of the Milky Way"
Dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in science today, and neutrinos might be able to help. IceCube and ANTARES Collaborations recently probed a known dark matter hotspot—the center of the Milky Way—by combining data from their respective neutrino telescopes. They did not find any unusual excesses of neutrinos, but they put stronger constraints on the dark matter annihilation cross-section averaged over the dark matter velocity. The results of the analysis are outlined in a paper submitted today to Physical Review D.
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Annullamento concorso Anch'Io Scienziato - A.S. 2019-2020
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"Annullamento concorso Anch'Io Scienziato - A.S. 2019-2020"
I Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso a seguito dell'emergenza COVID-19 e della chiusura delle scuole di ogni ordine e grado comunicano la sospensione del concorso "Anch'Io Scienziato" 2019-2020 dando appuntamento a tutti gli studenti abruzzesi al prossimo anno scolastico. In bocca al lupo a tutti per un rapido ritorno alla normalità
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Week 9 at the Pole
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"Week 9 at the Pole"
With temperatures around –50 °C (–58 °F) and winds at 15 knots (over 17 mph), there's no getting around the frosty face look when you're out walking around at the South Pole.
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Science's leading role in the restoration of Notre Dame, and the surprising biology behind how our body develops its tough skin
2020-03-12T18:28:40Z via NavierStokesApp To: Public
"Science's leading role in the restoration of Notre Dame, and the surprising biology behind how our body develops its tough skin"
On this week's show, freelance writer Christa Lesté-Lasserre talks with host Sarah Crespi about the scientists working on the restoration of Notre Dame, from testing the changing weight of wet limestone, to how to remove lead contamination from four-story stained glass windows. As the emergency phase of work winds down, scientists are also starting to use the lull in tourist activity to investigate the mysteries of the cathedral's construction. Also this week, Felipe Quiroz, an assistant professor in the biomedical engineering department at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, talks with Sarah about his paper on the cellular mechanism of liquid-liquid phase separation in the formation of the tough outer layer of the skin. Liquid-liquid phase separation is when two liquids "demix," or separate, like oil and water. In cells, this process created membraneless organelles that are just now starting to be understood. In this work, Quiroz and colleagues create a sensor for phase separation in the cell that works in living tissue, and show how phase separation is tied to the formation of the outer layers of skin in mice. Read the related Insight. This week's episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). [Image: r. nial bradshaw/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
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CERN updates its Open Hardware Licence
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"CERN updates its Open Hardware Licence"
CERN updates its Open Hardware Licenceachintya Mon, 03/09/2020 - 12:33
Nine years after publishing the first version of the CERN Open Hardware Licence (CERN-OHL) – which governs the use, copying, modification and distribution of hardware designs and the manufacture and distribution of any resulting products – CERN has now released version 2.0 of the licence. The latest version uses simpler terminology, introduces three variants of the licence, and broadens its range to include designs that go from artistic to mechanical to electronic, as well as adapting the licence to cases such as application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). It can even be used to license software.
"The CERN-OHL is to hardware what the free and open-source licences are to software," explains Myriam Ayass, legal adviser for the CERN Knowledge Transfer group and one of the authors of the CERN-OHL. "It defines the conditions under which a licensee will be able to use or modify the licensed material. It shares the same principles as free software or open-source software: anyone should be able to see the source – the design documentation in the case of hardware – study it, modify it and share it." 'Source' includes schematic diagrams, designs, circuit or circuit-board layouts, mechanical drawings, flow charts and descriptive texts, as well as other explanatory material.
"Open hardware gives designers and users the freedom to share hardware designs, modify them, manufacture products based on the design files and commercialise those products. This freedom enables collaboration among engineers, scientists, researchers, hobbyists and companies without the risk of vendor lock-in or other issues present in proprietary development," explains Javier Serrano, an engineer in the Beams Department at CERN and the founder of the Open Hardware Repository (OHR).
Version 2.0 of the CERN-OHL introduces three variants of the licence – strongly reciprocal, weakly reciprocal and permissive – which aim to address specific constraints caused by different collaboration models currently used in open-hardware projects. The first two variants mean that if any product is made using an open hardware design, the design of that product, including any improvements or modifications, should be made available under the same licence as that of the original product. Permissive licences do not impose this condition.
Andrew Katz, a lawyer and "open" specialist from Moorcrofts LLP, who has also been involved in the drafting process, said he believes the new drafts adopt best practices from the world of open-source software, while adapting to the specific and uniquely complex challenges presented by open hardware. "We're particularly excited by the enthusiastic response we've had to the drafts from members of communities in all sectors of open hardware, and we've been very grateful for their valuable comments and input."
CERN will soon submit the CERN-OHL for endorsement by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
Questions about the Open Hardware Licence and Repository should be directed to Myriam Ayass (firstname.lastname@example.com). For more details on the CERN-OHL, please visit kt.cern/ohlv2.
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Summer at the South Pole: 2019-2020 season recap
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"Summer at the South Pole: 2019-2020 season recap"
This summer season, IceCube sent more than 30 people from 12 institutions to the Pole to work on a variety of tasks to maintain and upgrade the observatory. Despite a number of delays, the IceCube team got a lot done in a short amount of time.
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Flash is a propriety plug-in created by Macromedia to infuse (albeit) fantastically rich media for your websites. The W3C advises you avoid the use of such proprietary technology to construct an entire site. Instead, build your site with CSS and HTML ensuring everyone, including search engine robots, can sample your website content. Then, if required, you can embed media files such as Flash in the HTML of your website.
I think it makes sense to have unique content as much as possible on these pages but it's not not going to like sync the whole website if you don't do that we don't penalize a website for having this kind of deep duplicate content and kind of going back to the first thing though with regards to doorway pages that is something I definitely look into to make sure that you're not running into that so in particular if this is like all going to the same clinic and you're creating all of these different landing pages that are essentially just funneling everyone to the same clinic then that could be seen as a doorway page or a set of doorway pages on our side and it could happen that the web spam team looks at that and says this is this is not okay you're just trying to rank for all of these different variations of the keywords and the pages themselves are essentially all the same and they might go there and say we need to take a manual action and remove all these pages from search so that's kind of one thing to watch out for in the sense that if they are all going to the same clinic then probably it makes sense to create some kind of a summary page instead whereas if these are going to two different businesses then of course that's kind of a different situation it's not it's not a doorway page situation." John Mueller, Google 2017
Being 'relevant' comes down to keywords & key phrases – in domain names, URLs, Title Elements, the number of times they are repeated in text on the page, text in image alt tags, rich markup and importantly in keyword links to the page in question. If you are relying on manipulating hidden elements on a page to do well in Google, you'll probably trigger spam filters. If it is 'hidden' in on-page elements – beware relying on it too much to improve your rankings.
At the moment, I don't know you, your business, your website, your resources, your competition or your product. Even with all that knowledge, calculating ROI is extremely difficult because ultimately Google decides on who ranks where in its results – sometimes that's ranking better sites, and sometimes (often) it is ranking sites breaking the rules above yours.
Site. Migration. No two words elicit more fear, joy, or excitement to a digital marketer. When the idea was shared three years ago, the company was excited. They dreamed of new features and efficiency. But as SEOs we knew better. We knew there would be midnight strategy sessions with IT. More UAT environments than we could track. Deadlines, requirements, and compromises forged through hallway chats. ... The result was a stable transition with minimal dips in traffic. What we didn't know, however, was the amount of cross-functional coordination that was required to pull it off. Learn more in this video!
This helpful tool scans your backlink profile and turns up a list of contact information for the links and domains you'll need to reach out to for removal. Alternatively, the tool also allows you to export the list if you wish to disavow them using Google's tool. (Essentially, this tool tells Google not to take these links into account when crawling your site.)
QUOTE: "As the Googlebot does not see [the text in the] the images directly, we generally concentrate on the information provided in the "alt" attribute. Feel free to supplement the "alt" attribute with "title" and other attributes if they provide value to your users! So for example, if you have an image of a puppy (these seem popular at the moment ) playing with a ball, you could use something like "My puppy Betsy playing with a bowling ball" as the alt-attribute for the image. If you also have a link around the image, pointing a large version of the same photo, you could use "View this image in high-resolution" as the title attribute for the link." John Mueller, Google 2008
Experience can educate you when a page is high-quality and yet receives no traffic. If the page is thin, but is not manipulative, is indeed 'unique' and delivers on a purpose with little obvious detectable reason to mark it down, then you can say it is a high-quality page – just with very little search demand for it. Ignored content is not the same as 'toxic' content.
Publicity: Getting your business featured on media outlets can be a great way to reach new customers, but connecting with the right people to make it happen can sometimes be difficult. You can always submit and post press releases for news and announcements from your business through online press release distribution services. While press releases can work, they can also be time-consuming and are often ignored. Another option that often produces better results is to sign up for media requests through Help A Reporter Out. Once you sign up, you'll receive emails listing requests for professional sources from media outlets, including newspapers, magazines, radio and TV programs, blogs, and podcasts.
Yes, you need to build links to your site to acquire more PageRank, or Google 'juice' – or what we now call domain authority or trust. Google is a link-based search engine – it does not quite understand 'good' or 'quality' content – but it does understand 'popular' content. It can also usually identify poor, or THIN CONTENT – and it penalises your site for that – or – at least – it takes away the traffic you once had with an algorithm change. Google doesn't like calling actions the take a 'penalty' – it doesn't look good. They blame your ranking drops on their engineers getting better at identifying quality content or links, or the inverse – low-quality content and unnatural links. If they do take action your site for paid links – they call this a 'Manual Action' and you will get notified about it in Google Search Console if you sign up.
This helpful tool scans your backlink profile and turns up a list of contact information for the links and domains you'll need to reach out to for removal. Alternatively, the tool also allows you to export the list if you wish to disavow them using Google's tool. (Essentially, this tool tells Google not to take these links into account when crawling your site.)
QUOTE: "You always need textual content on-page, regardless of what other kinds of content you might have. If you're a video-hosting site, you still need things like titles, headings, text, links, etc. The same goes for audio-hosting sites. Make it easy for search engines to understand your content & how it's relevant to users, and they'll be able to send you relevant traffic. If you make it hard for search engines to figure out what your pages are about, it would be normal for them to struggle to figure out how your site is relevant for users." John Mueller, Google 2019
An SEO meta description is a brief description of content found on a web page. The meta description is shown to users in search engine results pages to help them decide which search result to click on. Meta descriptions are not a ranking factor in the eyes of a search engine, but they can influence how many people click on a result -- which directly affects the result's organic ranking.
The errors in technical SEO are often not obvious, and therefore one of the most popular. Mistakes in robots.txt and 404 pages, pagination and canonical URLs, hreflang tags and 301 redirects, http vs https and www vs non www versions: each of them can seriously spoil all efforts to promote the site. One quality SEO website analysis is enough to solve all the main problems in this part forever.
QUOTE: "One of the difficulties of running a great website that focuses on UGC is keeping the overall quality upright. Without some level of policing and evaluating the content, most sites are overrun by spam and low-quality content. This is less of a technical issue than a general quality one, and in my opinion, not something that's limited to Google's algorithms. If you want to create a fantastic experience for everyone who visits, if you focus on content created by users, then you generally need to provide some guidance towards what you consider to be important (and sometimes, strict control when it comes to those who abuse your house rules). When I look at the great forums & online communities that I frequent, one thing they have in common is that they (be it the owners or the regulars) have high expectations, and are willing to take action & be vocal when new users don't meet those expectations." John Mueller, Google 2016
The errors in technical SEO are often not obvious, and therefore one of the most popular. Mistakes in robots.txt and 404 pages, pagination and canonical URLs, hreflang tags and 301 redirects, http vs https and www vs non www versions: each of them can seriously spoil all efforts to promote the site. One quality SEO website analysis is enough to solve all the main problems in this part forever.
QUOTE: "The quality of the MC is an important consideration for PQ rating. We will consider content to be Low quality if it is created without adequate time, effort, expertise, or talent/skill. Pages with low quality MC do not achieve their purpose well…. Important: The Low rating should be used if the page has Low quality MC. " Google Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines, 2019
After a while, Google will know about your pages, and keep the ones it deems 'useful' – pages with original content, or pages with a lot of links to them. The rest will be de-indexed. Be careful – too many low-quality pages on your site will impact your overall site performance in Google. Google is on record talking about good and bad ratios of quality content to low-quality content.
Search engine marketing (SEM) is related to SEO in that they both deal with digital marketing outreach on search engines like Google and Bing. However, SEO typically refers to internal, organic website optimization while search engine marketing is commonly known as advertising through a paid media budget. While SEO will help your website traffic increase through natural algorithmic means, SEM earns traffic through the process of purchasing ads on search engines. In the image to the left, you will see a search engine results page that is the result of typing the keyword "digital marketing" into Google. The top four results have a small green box that says "ad" underneath the primary title link. This signifies paid advertising, or search engine marketing, where a brand or business has paid Google to display their ads at the top of the page for that specific keyword.
Other research shows that exact-match domains that are deemed to be relevant, valuable, and high-quality can see a ranking boost because of it. However, if you already have an established website, you don't need to go looking for an exact-match domain for your business; focus on a URL that reflects your business and optimize the heck out of it instead!
QUOTE: "For instance, we would see a lot of low-quality posts in a forum. We would index those low-quality pages. And we'd also see a lot of really high-quality posts, with good discussions, good information on those pages. And our algorithms would be kind of stuck in a situation with, well, there's a lot of low-quality content here, but there's also a lot of high-quality content here. So how should we evaluate the site overall? And usually, what happens is, our algorithms kind of find some middle ground……. what you'd need to do to, kind of, move a step forward, is really try to find a way to analyze the quality of your content, and to make sure that the high-quality content is indexed and that the lower-quality content doesn't get indexed by default." John Mueller, Google 2014
QUOTE: "Anytime you do a bigger change on your website if you redirect a lot of URLs or if you go from one domain to another or if you change your site's structure then all of that does take time for things to settle down so we can follow that pretty quickly we can definitely forward the signals there but that doesn't mean that'll happen from one day to next" John Mueller, Google 2016
QUOTE: "Tell visitors clearly that the page they're looking for can't be found. Use language that is friendly and inviting. Make sure your 404 page uses the same look and feel (including navigation) as the rest of your site. Consider adding links to your most popular articles or posts, as well as a link to your site's home page. Think about providing a way for users to report a broken link. No matter how beautiful and useful your custom 404 page, you probably don't want it to appear in Google search results. In order to prevent 404 pages from being indexed by Google and other search engines, make sure that your webserver returns an actual 404 HTTP status code when a missing page is requested." Google, 2018
I do not obsess about site architecture as much as I used to…. but I always ensure my pages I want to be indexed are all available from a crawl from the home page – and I still emphasise important pages by linking to them where relevant. I always aim to get THE most important exact match anchor text pointing to the page from internal links – but I avoid abusing internals and avoid overtly manipulative internal links that are not grammatically correct, for instance..
Ranking refers to the process search engines use to determine where a particular piece of content should appear on a SERP. Search visibility refers to how prominently a piece of content is displayed in search engine results. Highly visible content (usually the content that ranks highest) may appear right at the top of organic search results or even in a featured snippet, while less-visible content may not appear until searchers click to page two and beyond
You can probably include up to 12 words that will be counted as part of a page title, and consider using your important keywords in the first 8 words. The rest of your page title historically counted as normal text on the page, but recent tests (2019) would indicate this is no longer the case. Words beyond the 12th word may be completely ignored by Google.
It's important to check that you have a mix of head terms and long-tail terms because it'll give you a keyword strategy that's well balanced with long-term goals and short-term wins. That's because head terms are generally searched more frequently, making them often (not always, but often) much more competitive and harder to rank for than long-tail terms. Think about it: Without even looking up search volume or difficulty, which of the following terms do you think would be harder to rank for?
QUOTE: "high quality content is something I'd focus on. I see lots and lots of SEO blogs talking about user experience, which I think is a great thing to focus on as well. Because that essentially kind of focuses on what we are trying to look at as well. We want to rank content that is useful for (Google users) and if your content is really useful for them, then we want to rank it." John Mueller, Google 2015
Some page titles do better with a call to action – a call to action which reflects exactly a searcher's intent (e.g. to learn something, or buy something, or hire something. THINK CAREFULLY before auto-generating keyword phrase footprints across a site using boiler-plating and article spinning techniques. Remember this is your hook in search engines, if Google chooses to use your page title in its search snippet, and there is a lot of competing pages out there in 2020.
SEM search placements include an "Ad" designation. SEO does not. Search results that appear as a result of SEM or SEO look different on SERPs. Paid ads that receive placement through SEM tactics are often identified as an ad (e.g., by an icon appearing next to the placement), whereas the search results that appear as a result of organic SEO are not marked in such manner.
QUOTE: "To make our results more useful, we've begun experiments to make our index mobile-first. Although our search index will continue to be a single index of websites and apps, our algorithms will eventually primarily use the mobile version of a site's content to rank pages from that site, to understand structured data, and to show snippets from those pages in our results. Of course, while our index will be built from mobile documents, we're going to continue to build a great search experience for all users, whether they come from mobile or desktop devices. If you have a responsive site or a dynamic serving site where the primary content and markup is equivalent across mobile and desktop, you shouldn't have to change anything." Doantam Phan, Google 2017
QUOTE: "I don't think we even see what people are doing on your website if they're filling out forms or not if they're converting to actually buying something so if we can't really see that then that's not something that we'd be able to take into account anyway. So from my point of view that's not something I'd really treat as a ranking factor. Of course if people are going to your website and they're filling out forms or signing up for your service or for a newsletter then generally that's a sign that you're doing the right things.". John Mueller, Google 2015
You can probably include up to 12 words that will be counted as part of a page title, and consider using your important keywords in the first 8 words. The rest of your page title historically counted as normal text on the page, but recent tests (2019) would indicate this is no longer the case. Words beyond the 12th word may be completely ignored by Google.
Having a different description meta tag for each page helps both users and Google, especially in searches where users may bring up multiple pages on your domain (for example, searches using the site: operator). If your site has thousands or even millions of pages, hand-crafting description meta tags probably isn't feasible. In this case, you could automatically generate description meta tags based on each page's content.


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This lovely hotel is set in Chambery. A total of 26 accommodation units are available for guests' convenience at Chateau de Candie. Chateau de Candie is not a pet-friendly establishment.
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Little and stunning Slovenia boasts a bounty of tasty dishes. Slovenia cuisine influenced by its neighbours Austria, Italy and Hungary as well as some flavors from as far afield as Turkey. A lot of food here is home-grown and prepared with the freshest ingredients in season. All of this makes for some interesting food.
Being surrounded by so many delicious cultures makes Slovenia a gourmet destination. Many travelers love to combine sightseeing and food tasting in Slovenia – this is a great way to explore this land.
We've composed a list of our favourte dishes in Slovenia helping you plan your delicious holiday here.
Žlikrofi: Slovenian Ravioli in Idrija
Image: Žlikrofi - Slovenia Ravioli – Eating Your Way Through Slovenia
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Image: UNESCO World Heritage Site, Idrija, Slovenia
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Image: UNESCO World Heritage Site, Idrija, Slovenia
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This is a perfect start of your Slovenia journey especially if you've just left Italy. Just over 2 hours away from Venice, you'll find a hidden away gem, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Idrija. It boasts the second largest mercury mine in the world. It is also the birthplace of a distinct lace-making tradition, a specific culinary legacy and unique technical heritage.
The great contribution of Idrija the national cuisine is žlikrofi, pasta pockets made with a filling of fatty spiced pork, onions and herbs such as marjoram and chives. They're a bit like ravioli, which is not surprising with Italy so close by. The accompanying sauce can be anything from melted butter and mushroom gravy made with chanterelles to a rich meat sauce called bakalca prepared with lamb.
Hearty Meats and Roasted Potatoes in the Slovenian Countryside
Image: Hearty Meats and Roasted Potatoes in the Slovenian Countryside
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Image: Vintgar Gorge in Slovenia
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Image: Vintgar Gorge in Slovenia – map location
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Hearty, rustic foods such as soups and stews, with dumplings and a variety of home-grown breads are one of the favourite rewards in Slovenia countryside, especially after a long day of exploring. In Slovenia, roast potatoes are such a big deal in the country that there's even a Roast Potato Festival to celebrate the humble spud. Sunday lunch is the perfect opportunity to enjoy hearty roast meats with vegetable and salad side dishes - look out for Slovenian pumpkin seed dressing on big, healthy salads, a particular favourite of the natives.
So, if you are hiking Vintgar Gorge in Slovenia, you should make a mental note of the restaurant you are going to replenish at afterwards. Vintgar Gorge is a 1.6 km long gorge located in Triglav National Park. The gorge has been carved out by the Radovna River, a crystal-clear river that looks emerald green or aqua depending upon the lighting conditions.
Crab Claw in Seaside Koper
Image: Crab Claw in Seaside Koper
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Image: Seaside Koper in Slovenia
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Image: Seaside Koper in Slovenia
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Istria is the only sea facing side of Slovenia. It is best known for its olive oil, wine and truffles. Oysters (from Lim Fjord), crab claws, grilled fish, sardines and octopus re just some of the seasonal delights here. If you visit in Spring (April or May) you can have all of the above. The quality and freshness of Istrian seafood is top-notch.
Koper is the biggest seaside town here. The sun warms up the lagoon of the Škocjanski Zatok Nature Reserve with hundreds of birds, the Karst Edge and world famous climbing areas. Coastal Slovenia's largest town is something of a well-concealed secret. It may appear to be a workaday port city that scarcely gives tourism a second thought. But this is why this is a little Slovenian secret. Koper's central core is delightfully medieval and far less overrun than its ritzy cousin Piran and well worth a day visit.
Shashlik in Slovenia Capital
Image: Shashlik in Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Image: A day in Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Image: Ljubljana, Slovenia map
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As you already know, Slovenia is influenced by many surrounding cultures. Some are a little further away than others. On your visit to the capital find a lunch break to enjoy the view of the city while enjoying a shashlik - an Eastern Europe's answer to barbecue that some recognise as a shish kebab in the Western world. Close economic and political ties between far off lands such as Russia, Latvia, Georgia and Armenia led Slovenian cuisine to diversify even more.
You can try this delicious dish almost anywhere in Slovenia but it really fits in with the busy capital's atmosphere. Shashlik is generally a meaty dish; however you can stick almost anything on the metal skew, from bread to seafood.
Ljubljana oozes charm, a delightful confection of Baroque and Habsburg inspired-architecture, richly painted churches, abundant greenery and engaging riverside cafes. We really love how its location, at the heart of this tiny, but astonishingly diverse country, means it's no more than a couple of hours away from anywhere. From Ljubljana Castle, former Yugoslav army barracks, the old town to hidden away wine bars and brewers, you'll have a lot to explore here. Just be sure to grab your sushlik to unwind and re-charge.
Traditional Slovenian Štruklji
Image: Traditional Slovenian Rolled Dumplings Štruklji
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Image: Slovenian Rolled Dumplings Štruklji
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Image: Eating in Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Image: Best Food in Ljubljana, Slovenia
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These dumplings are made in dozens and dozens of different flavors both savory and sweet. If we had to guess every Slovenian family has their own twist on a štruklji recipe too. It's not like an Asian dumpling that immediately comes to mind when you hear the word. Rather it's a log roll cut into pieces, much like how a sweet strudel is made. To sum up, štruklji are boiled or baked rolls of filo pastry, which can contain various fillings, for any taste and imagination. Some of the most popular ones to try are cottage cheese or buckwheat ones with a walnut filling. Simple and delicious! Plenty of restaurants all around Ljubljana, and surely in almost every restaurant offering local food in Slovenia, you can find štruklji.
If you want help picking your best Slovenian experience, just give our team a call on 1800 242 373.


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Austrian stage director Valentin Schwarz studied opera directing in Vienna. In the 2017 "Ring Award-Competition for Stage Directing" he won the first prize and several special prices, including the audience award, for his concept of Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" which will be co-produced by the opera houses in Montpellier and Karlsruhe.
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His production of Puccini's "Turandot" will open next season in Darmstadt where he already staged Verdi's "Un ballo in maschera". In Staatsoperette Dresden he will present Offenbach's "Les brigands". Current productions took place in Wien and Köln.
During his studies which he passed with distinction, he staged Debussy's "Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien" and Lehár's "Giuditta", before staging Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle" and Bizet's Carmen in Weimar.
He completed his artistic education as an assistant stage director in German opera houses for Jossi Wieler, Armin Petras and Kirill Serebrennikov and was the scenic leader of several revivals.
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