Category: Experiments

  • LHCf continues to investigate cosmic rays

    LHCf continues to investigate cosmic rays

    LHCf has completed its first data-taking period during LHC Run 3, taking advantage of the record 13.6 TeV collision energy. This coincides with the machine’s record fill time of 57 hours

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  • Change at the helm of the CMS collaboration

    Change at the helm of the CMS collaboration

    The new spokesperson, Patricia McBride, and two deputies, Wolfgang Adam and Lucia Silvestris, will represent the Collaboration for the next two years.

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  • Exceptional ATLAS collaborators honoured at the 2022 Outstanding Achievement Awards

    Exceptional ATLAS collaborators honoured at the 2022 Outstanding Achievement Awards

    The ATLAS collaboration held its sixth Outstanding Achievement Awards ceremony at CERN on 23 June 2022

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  • CMS 2021 Award and Thesis Award winners and 2022 Young Researchers Prize

    CMS 2021 Award and Thesis Award winners and 2022 Young Researchers Prize

    The CMS collaboration is proud to have been successfully advancing knowledge, scientific research and technology for years, and all this would certainly not have been possible without the contribution of each of its members

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  • LHCb 2022 PhD Thesis and Early-Career Scientist Awards

    LHCb 2022 PhD Thesis and Early-Career Scientist Awards

    On 14 June, LHCb, which comprises over 1000 authors and 400 PhD students, announced the winners of the 2022 PhD Thesis and Early-Career Scientist Awards

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  • AWAKE sows the seeds of controlled particle acceleration using plasma wakefields

    AWAKE sows the seeds of controlled particle acceleration using plasma wakefields

    The AWAKE collaboration has successfully seeded the self-modulation of a proton bunch, to control and stabilise plasma waves that can accelerate electrons with record gradients

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  • The new LHCb VELO

    The new LHCb VELO

    The VELO (Vertex Locator), the most recent addition to LHCb, was successfully installed a few weeks before the start of Run 3

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  • CERN approves new LHC experiment

    CERN approves new LHC experiment

    SND@LHC, or Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC, will be the facility’s ninth experiment

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  • ALPHA cools antimatter using laser light for the first time

    ALPHA cools antimatter using laser light for the first time

    The result opens the door to considerably more precise studies of the internal structure of antihydrogen and of how it behaves under the influence of gravity

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  • CLOUD at CERN reveals the role of iodine acids in atmospheric aerosol formation

    CLOUD at CERN reveals the role of iodine acids in atmospheric aerosol formation

    The results suggest a new mechanism that could accelerate the loss of Arctic sea ice

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