Category: At CERN
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CERN to host 4th edition of the CineGlobe International Film Festival
Geneva, 13 March 2014. CERN1 is to host the CineGlobe International Film Festival from 18 to 23 March at the Globe of Science and Innovation in Meyrin. This 4th edition will present 66 short films inspired by science in competition, including fiction films and documentaries. Selected from a long list of over 1600 short films
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10th edition of the International Masterclasses in Particle Physics to attract more than 10,000 high-school students worldwide
Geneva, 10 March 2014. Each year in spring, research institutes and universities around the world invite students and their teachers for a day-long programme to experience life at the forefront of basic research. These International Masterclasses give students the opportunity to be particle physicists for a day by analysing real data from CERN1’s Large Hadron
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CERN prepares its long-term future
Geneva, 6 February 2014. Particle physics takes the long-term view. Originally conceived in the 1980s, the LHC took another 25 years to come into being. This accelerator, which is unlike any other, is just at the start of a programme which is expected to run for another 20 years. Even now, as consolidation work aimed
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CERN experiment produces first beam of antihydrogen atoms for hyperfine study
Geneva, 21 January 2014. The ASACUSA1 experiment at CERN2 has succeeded for the first time in producing a beam of antihydrogen atoms. In a paper published today in Nature Communications, the ASACUSA collaboration reports the unambiguous detection of 80 antihydrogen atoms 2.7 metres downstream of their production, where the perturbing influence of the magnetic fields
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CERN to admit Israel as first new Member State since 1999
Following a resolution unanimously adopted at today’s 169th session of the CERN Council, CERN is set to admit Israel as the Organization’s 21st Member State.