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Category: At CERN

  • CERN’s Large Hadron Collider gears up for run 2

    Geneva, 12 December 2014. CERN1 announced today at the 174th session of the CERN Council that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is gearing up for its second three-year run. The LHC is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world and the whole 27-kilometre superconducting machine is now almost cooled to its nominal

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  • CERN inspires primary-school students to Play with Protons

    A new documentary charts the progress of the physics-education project “Playing with Protons”, a collaboration between CERN and a Greek primary school

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  • A meeting at the United Nations on gender equality

    Engineer Laurette Ponce of the CERN Control Centre spoke of her career in science and technology at a recent UN meeting on gender equality

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  • CERN makes public first data of LHC experiments

    Geneva, 20 November 2014. CERN1 launched today its Open Data Portal where data from real collision events, produced by the LHC experiments will for the first time be made openly available to all. It is expected that these data will be of high value for the research community, and also be used for education purposes.

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  • LHCb experiment observes two new baryon particles never seen before

    LHCb experiment observes two new baryon particles never seen before

    Geneva, 19 November 2014. Today the collaboration for the LHCb experiment at CERN1’s Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of two new particles in the baryon family. The particles, known as the Xi_b’– and Xi_b*–, were predicted to exist by the quark model but had never been seen before. A related particle, the Xi_b*0, was

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  • The role of science on the world stage

    Maurizio Bona comments the celebration of CERN’s 60th anniversary at UN Headquarters in New York on 20 October

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  • CERN Council selects next Director-General

    CERN Council selects next Director-General

    Geneva, 4 November 2014. At its 173rd Closed Session today, CERN1 Council selected the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, as the Organization’s next Director-General. The appointment will be formalised at the December session of Council, and Dr Gianotti’s mandate will begin on 1 January 2016 and run for a period of five years. Council rapidly

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  • Bringing science to the policy table

    Presentations at the UN’s New York headquarters used CERN as an example of the vital importance of science for peace

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  • Theory at CERN turns 62

    Cecilia Jarlskog looks at CERN Theory’s roots, and recalls some interactions with the organization

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  • Arts@CERN announces 3 new awards and reaches Asia

    Geneva, 28 October 2014. CERN1 is announcing today a new Collide @ CERN2 residency award award in cultural partnership with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, as well as two Accelerate @ CERN awards3 with the Ministry of Culture for Taiwan and the Austrian Federal Chancellery. All are part of the Arts @ CERN programme,

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