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Accelerator Report: Protons or Easter eggs? Let’s hope for both

Beam commissioning is progressing well across the entire accelerator complex, but challenges have arisen, in particular in Linac4, highlighting the complexities involved

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Accelerators
28 March, 2024

Spring at CERN, your photos

Thank you for sending in your beautiful spring photos, see them all here alongside the winning photo of our competition

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At CERN
27 March, 2024
At CERN
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27 March, 2024
At CERN
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World Wide Web at 35

From Tim Berners-Lee’s first proposal in March 1989 to today, the World Wide Web’s impact on society has been profound

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Computing
27 March, 2024
Computing
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27 March, 2024
Computing
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CERN and STFC support environmentally sustainable physics

CERN and the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) sign a new agreement to support the development of more sustainable particle accelerators

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Knowledge sharing
27 March, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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27 March, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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The delicate balance of lepton flavours

New ATLAS measurement of lepton flavour universality, a key feature of the Standard Model, in decays of the W boson is more precise than all previous measurements combined

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Physics
26 March, 2024
Physics
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26 March, 2024
Physics
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Computer Security: Day of the open firewall

With ongoing vulnerability scans of CERN’s internet presence, the Computer Security team’s plans to perform penetration testing against selected targets visible to the internet

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Computing
25 March, 2024
Computing
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25 March, 2024
Computing
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First observation of photons-to-taus in proton–proton collisions by CMS

Using the outstanding tracking capabilities of the CMS detector, the collaboration observed two photons producing two tau-leptons in proton–proton collisions

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Physics
25 March, 2024

Brazil becomes Associate Member State of CERN

Brazil has become the first Associate Member State of CERN in the Americas

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At CERN
22 March, 2024

CERN launches the White Rabbit Collaboration

White Rabbit, an open-source timing technology developed at CERN, has applications far beyond particle physics. To foster its uptake by industry, CERN has launched the White Rabbit Collaboration

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Knowledge sharing
22 March, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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22 March, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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Scientists use n_TOF to investigate how cerium is produced in the Universe

The CERN facility allowed scientists to see how this rare Earth metal is synthesised in stars. The results open up new questions about stellar nucleosynthesis and the chemical evolution of galaxies

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Physics
21 March, 2024