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  • News from the June 2024 CERN Council Session

    News from the June 2024 CERN Council Session

    The European Strategy for Particle Physics, CERN’s Medium-Term Plan and JINR were among many topics discussed in the 217th session of the CERN Council, find out more at the 2 July Directorate meeting

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  • How well do you know the CERN & Society Foundation?

    How well do you know the CERN & Society Foundation?

    CERN community: here’s your chance to win a limited-edition CERN & Society Foundation 10th anniversary isothermal bottle

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  • Students from Estonia, Japan and the USA win the 11th edition of Beamline for Schools

    Students from Estonia, Japan and the USA win the 11th edition of Beamline for Schools

    Three teams of secondary school pupils from Estonia, Japan and the United States have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams at CERN and DESY

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  • Hans Joachim Specht (1936 – 2024)

    Hans Joachim Specht (1936 – 2024)

    Hans Joachim Specht(1936 – 2024) — Hans Joachim Specht, one of the founders of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion physics and a pioneering figure in hadron cancer therapy, passed away on 20 May 2024, at the age of 87. A graduate of the University of Munich and ETH Zurich, and full Professor at the University of Heidelberg for

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  • CERN’s communications receive European recognition

    CERN’s communications receive European recognition

    CERN’s Education, Communication and Outreach group receive the European Association of Communication Directors Excellence award

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  • Arts at CERN awarded European Commission’s S+T+ARTS Grand Prize for Innovative Collaboration

    Arts at CERN awarded European Commission’s S+T+ARTS Grand Prize for Innovative Collaboration

    Arts at CERN wins the Grand Prize for groundbreaking initiatives at the nexus of science, technology and the arts

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  • Mats Lindroos (1961 – 2024)

    Mats Lindroos (1961 – 2024)

    Mats Lindroos(1961 – 2024) — Mats Lindroos, who made major contributions to accelerator technology, passed away on 2 May 2024 aged just 62. Mats received his PhD in subatomic physics from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1993 under the supervision of Björn Jonson. As a PhD student he studied decay properties and

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  • ATLAS dives deeper into di-Higgs

    ATLAS dives deeper into di-Higgs

    By combining multiple Higgs boson pair studies, physicists are closer to finding out how the particle interacts with itself, providing clues to the stability of the Universe

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  • Instruments of Vision opens in Santiago de Compostela as a collaboration between Arts at CERN and IGFAE

    Instruments of Vision opens in Santiago de Compostela as a collaboration between Arts at CERN and IGFAE

    In this exhibition, Armin Linke, former artist in residence at CERN, explores the research environments at the laboratories

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  • How can AI help physicists search for new particles?

    How can AI help physicists search for new particles?

    The ATLAS and CMS collaborations are using state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to search for exotic-looking collisions that could indicate new physics

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