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CERN70: Tracing particles

Madeleine Znoy was one of the people responsible for “scanning” the films from the bubble chambers for interesting events

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At CERN
26 March, 2024
At CERN
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26 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 publishes knowledge transfer highlights from 2023

The digital report “Accelerating Innovation Through Partnerships” shows how CERN, in collaboration with its partners, can harness its technology and expertise to drive innovation for the benefit of society

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Knowledge sharing
20 March, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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20 March, 2024

CERN70: The dark side of the muon

Francis Farley, a British physicist, joined CERN in 1957. This marked the start of a long and remarkable career in experiments to measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

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At CERN
14 March, 2024
At CERN
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14 March, 2024

LHCb observes a new decay mode of the charmed beauty meson

The result has implications for future searches for rare beauty meson decays and for the interpretation of results from the Fermilab g-2 experiment

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Physics
04 March, 2024

CERN70: The heart of CERN’s accelerator chain

Günther Plass, former Director of Accelerators at CERN, joined the Magnets group at the Proton Synchrotron (PS) in 1956. Three years later, the machine went into service and became the most powerful accelerator in the world

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At CERN
29 February, 2024
At CERN
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29 February, 2024

AEgIS experiment paves the way for new set of antimatter studies by laser-cooling positronium

In cooling positronium with laser light for the first time, AEgIS may also have taken the first step towards a matter–antimatter system that emits laser-like gamma-ray light

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Physics
22 February, 2024

Happy hundredth Herwig!

Find out how CERN is celebrating the 100th birthday of former Director-General Herwig Schopper, and how you can be involved

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At CERN
15 February, 2024
At CERN
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15 February, 2024

CERN70: A first discovery

Giuseppe Fidecaro was among the small group of physicists who performed the first experiment at CERN to provide results in 1958 that would spread the Laboratory’s name around the world

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At CERN
14 February, 2024
At CERN
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14 February, 2024

Chamonix: building on success, planning for the future

Highlights from this year’s Chamonix workshop, including the crucial role that the injectors play in shaping future research endeavours

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Accelerators
12 February, 2024
Accelerators
Opinion
12 February, 2024