CERN Updates
LIVE: Inside CERN’s antimatter factory
— On Thursday 26 April 2018 at 4pm CEST, join the CERN Facebook live from our unique Antiproton Decelerator
Crabs settled in the tunnel
— After several years of preparatory work, the first crab cavity prototypes have been installed in the SPS tunnel and are ready for testing
CERN’s SPS experiments restart
— Experiments resume at CERN’s second-largest accelerator, the Super Proton Synchrotron
First LHC test collisions of 2018
— The Large Hadron Collider has initiated the collision of proton beams for the first time this year
A new era of precision for antimatter research
— The ALPHA experiment at CERN has measured a light-induced transition in antihydrogen with unprecedented precision
“Humpty Dumpty” particle discovered
— It’s no yolk: the LHCb experiment has discovered the smallest lump of glue that holds matter together.
Beams are back in the LHC
— Protons have been circulating in the Large Hadron Collider since Friday 30 March, marking the start of the machine’s seventh year of operation
CERN experiment sees hints of a rare kaon decay
— The NA62 experiment has observed a candidate event of an ultra-rare charged kaon decay
Particle detectors meet canvas
— This year is the European year of cultural heritage, but what does particle physics have to do with art? More than you might think.
Arts at CERN announces the winners of the Collide awards
— Artists from all over the world are invited to spend time at CERN and work alongside particle physicists and engineers
Higgs results take centre stage at annual Moriond conference
— ATLAS and CMS present new measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson
CERN pays tribute to Stephen Hawking
— Theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, has died on 14 March aged 76.
Accelerator hibernation ends
— As CERN’s winter shutdown draws to a close, watch this video to see what has been going on underground
Making antimatter transportable
— A project called PUMA aims to transport antimatter from one CERN facility to another in order to investigate exotic nuclear phenomena
CERN meets industry at the Big Science Business Forum
— The world’s first Big Science Business Forum gathered 18 of the most advanced big-science organisations together to meet European companies
LIVE: From the LHC tunnel
— Join our scientists live from the Large Hadron Collider tunnel today, 28 February 2018, at 4pm on Facebook
The long road to Linac4
— After two decades of design and construction, CERN’s newest accelerator, Linac4, is on its way to join the LHC injection chain
Fifty years since Charpak revolutionised particle detectors
— In 1968, Georges Charpak invented the Nobel prize-winning multiwire proportional chamber pushing particle physics detection into the electronic era
First high-precision LHC measurement of W boson mass
— In a paper published today in the European Physical Journal C, the ATLAS Collaboration reports the first high-precision measurement of W boson mass
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