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HL-LHC magnet endurance test further confirms niobium–tin’s resilience

A full-size, US-produced HL-LHC quadrupole magnet based on niobium–tin technology has passed a critical endurance test, another step towards confirming the technology’s viability inside accelerators

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Accelerators
19 July, 2022

CMS 2021 Award and Thesis Award winners and 2022 Young Researchers Prize

The CMS collaboration is proud to have been successfully advancing knowledge, scientific research and technology for years, and all this would certainly not have been possible without the contribution of each of its members

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Experiments
19 July, 2022

LHCb 2022 PhD Thesis and Early-Career Scientist Awards

On 14 June, LHCb, which comprises over 1000 authors and 400 PhD students, announced the winners of the 2022 PhD Thesis and Early-Career Scientist Awards

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Experiments
19 July, 2022

A summer of scientific encounters with CERN

This summer, CERN has organised several events for the population of the Greater Geneva area

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At CERN
19 July, 2022

Higgs10: Ten things we’ve learned about the Higgs boson in the past ten years

Since its discovery in 2012, the Higgs boson has become one of the most powerful tools to probe our understanding of nature and, with that, examine some of the biggest open questions in physics today.

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Physics
19 July, 2022

AWAKE sows the seeds of controlled particle acceleration using plasma wakefields

The AWAKE collaboration has successfully seeded the self-modulation of a proton bunch, to control and stabilise plasma waves that can accelerate electrons with record gradients

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Experiments
18 July, 2022

Bike to Work 2022 wraps up with CERN first in French-speaking Switzerland

With participation at pre-COVID levels, the CERN community pedalled its way to the top of the competition

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At CERN
18 July, 2022

CERN welcomes INFN and IIT as new members of its IBM Quantum Network hub

Two European research institutes have recently signed an agreement to become the latest members of CERN’s hub in the IBM Quantum Network.

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Computing
15 July, 2022