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At the end of June, CERN saw yet another phishing campaign against its staff and users
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The emergency stop tests of the PS and Booster areas on the Meyrin site are planned from Tuesday 21 July at 7:30 am to Wednesday 22 July at 10:00 pm
A new beam absorber, developed for high luminosity, has been installed in the LHC
Researchers have conducted the first search at a hadron collider for elementary particles with electric charges smaller than a tenth of the electron charge
The weekend-long hackathon saw participants develop prototype applications under the theme ‘working together apart: accelerating collaboration’
CERN’s car-sharing service remains suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future
It’s the end of Long Shutdown 2 for the PS Booster, the first accelerator to be recommissioned, alongside Linac 4
Marcel Rieger, from RWTH Aachen University, stood out among the 25 nominees
