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  • An exabyte of disk storage at CERN

    An exabyte of disk storage at CERN

    CERN disk storage capacity passes the threshold of one million terabytes of disk space

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  • CERN Science Gateway: interactive exhibitions for everyone

    CERN Science Gateway: interactive exhibitions for everyone

    The new permanent exhibitions – Discover CERN, Our Universe and Quantum World – are unlike anything CERN has developed before…

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  • Accelerator Report: SPS and LHC lead-ion physics: navigating technical hurdles for success

    Accelerator Report: SPS and LHC lead-ion physics: navigating technical hurdles for success

    On Thursday, 28 September, at 8.00 a.m., as planned, the Operations team at the SPS stopped producing proton beams for the experiments in the SPS North Area (NA). Instead, they switched over to lead-ion beams, in preparation for a month-long physics run that begins on Monday, 2 October, and will continue until 6.00 a.m. on

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  • The LHC lead-ion collision run starts

    The LHC lead-ion collision run starts

    For the coming 5 weeks the LHC experiments will be taking data for their heavy-ion physics programmes

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  • ALPHA experiment at CERN observes the influence of gravity on antimatter

    ALPHA experiment at CERN observes the influence of gravity on antimatter

    The result is a milestone in the study of the properties and behaviour of antimatter

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  • A few words from CERN’s first official guide

    A few words from CERN’s first official guide

    Félix Hoffmann was a CERN tour guide for more than 50 years

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  • Two new members elected to the Senior Staff Advisory Committee (“the Nine”) in 2023

    Two new members elected to the Senior Staff Advisory Committee (“the Nine”) in 2023

    “The Nine”, who inform and advise the Director-General, are now seeking topics for discussion for the coming year

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  • Oscar Barbalat (1935 – 2023)

    Oscar Barbalat (1935 – 2023)

    Oscar Barbalat(1935 – 2023) — Oscar Barbalat, electronics engineer and knowledge transfer pioneer at CERN, died on 8 September, aged 87. Born in Liège, Belgium, in 1935, he joined CERN in 1961, working initially for the PS-RF group. At the time, the PS beam intensity was still below 109 protons/pulse and the beam control system

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  • Computer security: T2U4U2FA*  *Thanks to you for using 2FA

    Computer security: T2U4U2FA* *Thanks to you for using 2FA

    One year ago, the CERN Computer Security team and the IT Identity Management team started the CERN-wide roll-out of multifactor authentication to staff and users. The combination of a second “factor”, i.e. something you have, and the primary factor “something you know”1, i.e. your password, provides the ultimate silver bullet for the protection of your

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  • ATLAS measures strength of the strong force with record precision

    ATLAS measures strength of the strong force with record precision

    The result showcases the power of the LHC to push the precision frontier and improve our understanding of nature

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