Category: Physics

  • Machine learning to reveal more about LHC particle collisions

    Machine learning to reveal more about LHC particle collisions

    The CMS Collaboration demonstrates that machine learning can outperform traditional methods in the full reconstruction of particle collisions at the LHC

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  • Antonino Zichichi (1929 – 2026)

    Antonino Zichichi (1929 – 2026)

    A pioneer of CERN’s experimental programme in the 1950s, he was one of the most influential figures in high-energy physics

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  • What can you do with 380 million Higgs bosons?

    What can you do with 380 million Higgs bosons?

    The latest edition of the CERN Courier magazine explores what the High-Luminosity LHC will be able to say about the distant past and future of the Universe

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  • The January/February 2026 issue of the CERN Courier is out

    The January/February 2026 issue of the CERN Courier is out

    Physicists can be allies, wrote Wassily Kandinsky, “who test matter again and again, who tremble before no problem, and who finally cast doubt on that very matter which was yesterday the foundation of everything, so that the whole universe is shaken.” This edition of CERN Courier offers two examples of physics to shake the universe.

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  • ALICE solves mystery of light-nuclei survival

    ALICE solves mystery of light-nuclei survival

    Observations of the formation of light nuclei from high-energy collisions may help in the hunt for dark matter

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  • Deciphering the heavyweights of the tetraquark world

    Deciphering the heavyweights of the tetraquark world

    The CMS collaboration reports the first measurement of the quantum properties of a family of tetraquarks that was recently discovered at the LHC

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  • First observation of single top quark production with W and Z bosons

    First observation of single top quark production with W and Z bosons

    This incredibly rare phenomenon, observed at the CMS experiment, can help probe the fundamental forces of nature

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  • Ion recycling to illuminate the heaviest elements

    Ion recycling to illuminate the heaviest elements

    A sophisticated electrostatic trap at CERN’s ISOLDE facility could help researchers probe the chemical reactivity of the rarest and least understood elements

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  • Molecules of pear-shaped atomic nuclei bear fruit

    Molecules of pear-shaped atomic nuclei bear fruit

    A new ISOLDE study of molecules containing pear-shaped atomic nuclei helps shape future research aimed at testing fundamental symmetries of nature

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  • European Strategy update enters final straight

    European Strategy update enters final straight

    The completion of the Physics Briefing Book on 2 October marks a major milestone towards the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics

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