Category: At CERN
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Geneva conference to bring benefits of basic research to medicine
Geneva, 20 February 2012. A new kind of conference will be launched next week in Geneva, uniting physics, biology and medicine for better healthcare. Starting on 27 February, the ICTR-PHE conference brings together the long established International Conference on Translational Research in Radiation Oncology, which has been held every three years from 2000, with CERN1’s
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André Petermann (1922 – 2011)
Early member of the CERN Theory Division who pioneered the renormalization group, paving the way for the modern theory of phase transitions
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LHC to run at 4 TeV per beam in 2012
Geneva, 13 February 2012. CERN1 today announced that the LHC will run with a beam energy of 4 TeV this year, 0.5 TeV higher than in 2010 and 2011. This decision was taken by CERN management following the annual performance workshop held in Chamonix last week and a report delivered today by the external CERN
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Serbia set to become Associate Member State of CERN
Geneva, 16 December 2011. At its 161st meeting at CERN1 today, the CERN Council unanimously voted to admit the Republic of Serbia to Associate Membership as the pre-stage to Membership of CERN. This status will come into force following signature of the related Agreement by the two parties and notification to CERN of ratification by
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European particle physics plots course for the future
Geneva, 15 December 2011. CERN1 Council today announced an Open Symposium to be held on 10-13 September 2012 at Cracow, Poland for the purpose of updating the European Strategy for Particle Physics. Council adopted Europe’s current strategy for the field in July 2006 with an understanding that it be brought up to date at appropriate
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ATLAS and CMS experiments present Higgs search status
Geneva, 13 December 2011. In a seminar held at CERN1 today, the ATLAS2 and CMS3 experiments presented the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. Their results are based on the analysis of considerably more data than those presented at the summer conferences, sufficient to make significant progress in the search for
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First Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN laureate announced
Geneva, 6 December 2011. The first Prix1 Ars Electronica2 Collide @ CERN3 was today awarded to the 28-year-old German artist, Julius Von Bismarck for the quality of his ideas and his ability to make playful creative collisions between the arts and science. With a growing international reputation for his diverse and experimental artistic practice, Von
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CERN has 2020 vision for LHC upgrade
Geneva, 16 November 2011. CERN1 today kicked off the High Luminosity LHC study with a workshop bringing together scientists and engineers from some 14 European institutions, supported through the European Commission’s seventh Framework programme (FP7), along with others from Japan and the USA. The goal is to prepare the ground for an LHC luminosity upgrade
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LHC proton run for 2011 reaches successful conclusion
Geneva, 31 October 2011. After some 180 days of running and four hundred trillion (4×1014) proton proton collisions, the LHC’s 2011 proton run came to an end at 5.15pm yesterday evening. For the second year running, the LHC team has largely surpassed its operational objectives, steadily increasing the rate at which the LHC has delivered