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  • Send a CERN e-card

    Send a CERN e-card

    Send colleagues, family and friends holiday greetings using the CERN e-card service. The video is available on YouTube. You can create your own personalised electronic cards by signing in with your CERN account on this site. Please note that this year’s cards will only be available virtually and that no physical copies will be distributed.

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  • CERN has a new Cultural Advisory Board

    CERN’s newly appointed Cultural Advisory Board will hold its first meeting

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  • CERN second Environment Report: concrete actions to reduce footprint

    CERN second Environment Report: concrete actions to reduce footprint

    The report covers the years 2019-2020 when the accelerator complex was in its second long shutdown, an opportunity for CERN to improve its environmental footprint on several levels

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  • Industry and research – joining forces to accelerate progress and innovation

    CERN’s industrial suppliers are crucial to advancing its scientific mission. It is through successful collaborations with businesses across a variety of industries that advancements in accelerators, detectors, computing and many other areas become realities. It is often stated that CERN is a city within a city, and this requires efficient services of all types from

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  • What like a beam can undeceive! (*With apologies to Herman Melville)

    The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has recently completed a two-week beam test following a lengthy post-Long Shutdown 2 (LS2) campaign of hardware commissioning, magnet circuit powering tests and dipole training. The dipole training was not without issues. Two separate quench-induced faults made it necessary to warm up two sectors: one for a magnet exchange (sector

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  • Gennady Zinovjev (1941 – 2021)

    Gennady Zinovjev (1941 – 2021)

    Gennady Zinovjev(1941 – 2021) — Professor Gennady Zinovjev, a prominent theorist in the field of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the physics of strongly interacting matter, a pioneer in experimental studies of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, and a leader of the Ukraine–CERN collaboration, passed away on 19 October 2021 at the age of 80. In a career

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  • President of the Swiss Confederation visits CERN

    The President of the Swiss Confederation, Guy Parmelin, honoured CERN with his presence on Friday, 5 November 2021. He was accompanied by representatives of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (DEFR) and the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAE). At Point 1 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Swiss Head of

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  • Environmental awareness: CERN’s process for minimising environmental noise

    Environmental awareness: CERN’s process for minimising environmental noise

    In the design phase of a new project, CERN takes into account the 2018 reference levels for noise limits, the new noise source characteristics, and noise from existing infrastructure. The data is then processed by a 3D georeferenced modelling software. Mitigation measures are defined where needed, based on the results of the modelling. Before the

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  • Entering a new chapter for the HL-LHC project

    Entering a new chapter for the HL-LHC project

    More than 200 participants gathered online at the 11th annual HL-LHC collaboration meeting to take stock of CERN’s flagship project as it starts taking shape on an industrial scale.

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  • Helmut Weber (1947 – 2021)

    Helmut Weber (1947 – 2021)

    Helmut Weber(1947 – 2021) — Helmut Weber, CERN Director of Administration from 1992 to 1994, passed away on 16 July. Born in 1947, he obtained his PhD from the University of Vienna, after which he pursued a high-flying career in the aerospace industry, where he acquired considerable managerial experience. Prior to joining CERN, Helmut had

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