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Accelerator Report: The first stable beams of 2025, a milestone and a beginning
The LHC operations team and many other experts have been working hard to set up and validate the accelerator for safe beam operation, leading to the first stable beams for physics of 2025 on 5 May
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Official News regarding the CERN Safety Rules
Official News regarding the CERN Safety Rules — The CERN Safety Rules listed below have been published on the CERN website dedicated to the Safety Rules : This General Safety Instruction replaces a Safety Regulation on the same subject matter dating back to 2008. It takes into account lessons learnt, as well as changes in
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ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
Near-miss collisions between high-energy lead nuclei at the LHC generate intense electromagnetic fields that can knock out protons and transform lead into fleeting quantities of gold nuclei
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CERN wins 2025 Davos communication award
Congratulations to everybody across CERN who was involved in the CERN70 communications campaign, which won the “In-house team of the year” award
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Computer Security: SecDevOps tips
It should be common knowledge among software developers that writing software with as few weaknesses, vulnerabilities and flaws as possible is the most cost-efficient solution
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And they’re off! The 2025 LHC physics season gets underway
“Stable” particle beams are back in the LHC machine, marking the start of the 2025 physics data-taking campaign
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Stefano Mazzoni (1978–2025)
Stefano Mazzoni(1978–2025) — We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Stefano Mazzoni. Stefano left an indelible mark at CERN, where he worked within the Beam Instrumentation group. From his arrival on 1 September 2012, as a physicist specialising in optics and lasers, Stefano quickly distinguished himself through his exceptional expertise and dedication.
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Alasdair Smith (1942–2025)
Alasdair Smith(1942–2025) — Alasdair Smith passed away in March at the age of 82. After receiving a PhD in physics from the University of Glasgow in 1970, Alasdair began a long career at CERN, working on experiments at the ISR, then on OPAL at LEP and, finally, on LHCb at the LHC. At the ISR,
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Top marks for CERN in 2025 European Physical Society awards
The CERN-led educational programme Beamline for Schools is among the recipients of the 2025 awards of the European Physical Society’s High Energy and Particle Physics Division
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CERN joins the build-up phase of EOSC Federation
The Laboratory is one of 13 organisations selected to contribute to the build-up phase of the European Open Science Cloud Federation