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CERN70: Switching on the Large Hadron Collider

Lyn Evans was Project Leader for the Large Hadron Collider

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Accelerators
04 October, 2024
Accelerators
Feature
04 October, 2024

Blowing out 70 candles: CERN celebrates seven decades of discoveries and looks ahead to a brilliant future of science and innovation

A special high-level ceremony held at CERN crowned a year-long celebration taking place across Europe and beyond

Press release
At CERN
01 October, 2024
At CERN
Press release
01 October, 2024

Professor Costas Fountas elected as next President of the CERN Council

The CERN Council has announced that Professor Costas Fountas will become its 25th President beginning on 1 January 2025

Press release
At CERN
30 September, 2024
At CERN
Press release
30 September, 2024

Robert Aymar (1936 – 2024)

CERN Director-General from 2004 to 2008, he mobilised the teams to finish building the LHC and commission the machine

Obituary
At CERN
26 September, 2024
At CERN
Obituary
26 September, 2024

ALICE probes the strong interaction three-body problem

With new measurements of hadron–deuteron correlations, the ALICE collaboration explores the strong interaction of three-body systems at the LHC.

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Physics
25 September, 2024

NA62 experiment at CERN observes ultra-rare particle decay

In the Standard Model of particle physics, the odds of this decay occurring are less than one in 10 billion

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Physics
25 September, 2024
Physics
Press release
25 September, 2024

CERN70: Superconductors accelerate progress

Lucio Rossi led the group responsible for developing and launching the industrial production of the superconducting magnets for the LHC

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Engineering
20 September, 2024
Engineering
Feature
20 September, 2024

LHC experiments at CERN observe quantum entanglement at the highest energy yet

The results open up a new perspective on the complex world of quantum physics

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Physics
18 September, 2024
Physics
Press release
18 September, 2024

CMS experiment at CERN weighs in on the W boson mass

The eagerly awaited result is the most precise measurement of the W mass made at the LHC so far, and is in line with the prediction from the Standard Model of particle physics

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Physics
17 September, 2024
Physics
Press release
17 September, 2024

How can physicists make particle accelerators more efficient?

Using AI, machine learning and automation, the Efficient Particle Accelerator (EPA) project aims to boost the efficiency of CERN's accelerators for the high luminosity era and beyond

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Accelerators
11 September, 2024
Accelerators
News
11 September, 2024