Category: Experiments
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Paul Kuijer (1957–2025)
Paul Kuijer(1957–2025) — We received news of the passing of Paul Kuijer with great sorrow. Paul was a senior experimental physicist at Nikhef and played an important role in the ALICE experiment at CERN. During the last years of his career, Paul had turned his attention mostly towards the ET Pathfinder project within the Gravitational
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Optical fibre link to make CERN more on time than ever
A new optical fibre link between CERN and Paris will provide the Laboratory with an accurate frequency reference, enhancing precision and supporting experiments like ALPHA in their search for matter–antimatter differences
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CMS develops new AI algorithm to detect anomalies
During LHC Run 3, researchers at the experiment have deployed an innovative machine learning technique that will improve the data quality of one of the detector’s most crucial components
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Heavy-ion run at the LHC begins
For the next 17 days, every minute counts when it comes to taking lead–lead collision data
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BASE experiment takes a big step towards portable antimatter
The experiment successfully transported a box filled with unbonded protons across CERN’s main site, thus demonstrating that the same feat could later be possible for antiprotons
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Detector now collecting data in Japan after upgrade at CERN
Japan’s neutrino facility T2K is now collecting data using a detector that was upgraded and tested at CERN
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CMS welcomes its new management
The new spokesperson, Gautier Hamel de Monchenault, and the two deputy spokespersons, Hafeez Hoorani and Anadi Canepa, will be representing CMS over the next two years
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LHCb announces its 2024 collaboration prizes
Congratulations to the 2024 winners of the LHCb Thesis Awards, Early Career Scientist Awards and Technical Awards
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ALICE honours its 2024 Thesis Award winners
On 9 July 2024, the ALICE collaboration honoured its PhD Thesis Award winners in a ceremony organised as part of the ALICE collaboration meeting at CERN. Since 2008, ALICE has recognised the most outstanding PhD theses in the fields of physics and instrumentation, based on the excellence of the results obtained, the quality of the