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Tune in to celebrate ten years of Higgs research at the LHC with CERN on 3 and 4 July. If your hunger for physics hasn’t been satiated, stay to witness the start of Run 3 at the LHC on 5 July
Take a walk around CERN to discover the rich flora and fauna that surround us
The CMS experiment awaits LHC Run 3 to explore several analyses showing small disagreements with theory expectations
In the past few weeks, you might have noticed some of our firefighter colleagues wearing a red T-shirt that reads “Firefighter in induction”
Providing computer security for an organisation, company or university resembles playing a permanent game of chess
The renovation work will start in autumn 2022
On 5 July, after more than three years of long shutdown, the physics season will start at the LHC with a new energy world record
The fund aims to stimulate innovation in accelerator technologies by supporting projects with funding of up to 200 kEUR
The EU-funded ARIES project has succeeded in opening up new avenues for the accelerator community
The Vega supercomputer in Slovenia is the most recent HPC centre to process ATLAS experimental data
Four technical apprentices and one library apprentice received their diplomas in 2021
