CERN Accelerating science

Little Amal is a 3.5-m-tall animated puppet of a Syrian refugee girl who has embarked on a remarkable journey – an 8000-km artistic voyage that is taking her across Turkey and Europe. To find her mother, to get back to school, to start a new life.

On 23 September, 16 CERN Council delegates visited the new underground cavern at Point 1

The Second Collisions CERN alumni event will take place online, with participants able to explore the CERN site virtually

With many developments planned or under consideration, this is the decade of CERN’s Prévessin site

Magnet training for the LHC circuits will be completed by the end of the year

During LS2, 16 new collimators have been installed in the LHC ready for the next run and above all for the future HL-LHC

Introducing two new Heads of Departments: Mar Capeans, (Site and Civil Engineering – SCE) and Brennan Goddard (Accelerator Systems – SY)

The first Sparks! forum is over, but you can still watch the recorded talks online

The centre opened on Monday, 27 September, in the presence of the sub-prefect for Gex and Nantua, Pascaline Boulay

The ISOLTRAP experiment at CERN’s ISOLDE facility has weighed the neighbouring indium nuclei of tin-100, shedding new light on this special “doubly magic” nucleus