CERN Updates
New Swiss banknote features CERN
— The new Swiss 200 franc note, issued on 22 August 2018, is inspired by science, and in particular the science of matter: particle physics
Vote for your favourite picture from the CERN Photowalk
— A jury from CERN has chosen the 20 best photos from the event.
New measurement of particle’s lifetime intrigues physicists
— A new measurement by the LHCb collaboration of the lifetime of a particle known as the charmed omega is inconsistent with previous estimates
A nature-lover’s guide to CERN
— Nature maintains a foothold amidst the tangle of CERN’s industrial infrastructure
The invisible structure providing Open Access in HEP
— Nearly 90% of High-Energy Physics publications are funded by SCOAP³
LHC accelerates its first “atoms”
— Lead "atoms" with a single remaining electron swirl around the Large Hadron Collider
CERN’s International High-School Teacher Programme turns 20
— Officially set up in 1998, the teacher programmes bring hundreds of teachers to CERN each year
LHC experiments present latest results at ICHEP
— This year’s International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) took place in Seoul, South Korea, on 4–11 July
CERN supports new business incubation centre in Switzerland
— A new business incubation centre in Switzerland marks the tenth centre to help businesses take CERN technology and expertise to the market
First 3D colour X-ray of a human using CERN technology
— First human scanned with next–generation 3D colour scanner using CERN technology
ISOLDE mints isotopes of chromium
— CERN’s ISOLDE facility has produced neutron-rich chromium isotopes, which have been weighed by the ISOLTRAP precision balance
Opinion: We need to talk about the Higgs
— It is six years ago that the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced, to great fanfare in the world’s media, as a crowning success of CERN’s LHC
Technologies for CLIC and beyond
— Technologies developed for the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) project promise smaller accelerators for applications outside high-energy physics
ISOLDE peers into the world of DNA
— Researchers at CERN’s ISOLDE facility have used an ultrasensitive variant of NMR spectroscopy to study DNA interactions
Filipino and Indian students win 2018 BL4S competition
— The Beamline for Schools contest is open to high-school students from around the world who want to experience the life of a scientist
Exploring future medical accelerators for cancer treatment
— This week, worldwide experts are gathering to explore future medical accelerators for treating cancer
Major work starts to boost the luminosity of the LHC
— A ground-breaking ceremony celebrates the start of the civil-engineering work for the High-Luminosity LHC
Dive into the subatomic world at Art Basel
— HALO, an artwork conceived during the artists’ residency at CERN and inspired by ATLAS data will be exhibited from 13 to 17 June at Art Basel.
Big data and social media
— American Internet pioneer Vint Cerf presented “Big data and social media” at CERN
Neutron stars cast light on quark matter
— The first observation of a neutron-star merger by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations has allowed researchers to improve the theory of quark matter
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