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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

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

CERN tech in space: the first CERN-driven satellite has been successfully launched

With the launch of the CELESTA satellite for radiation monitoring in space, CERN shows its expertise in the field of radiation effects on electronics

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Knowledge sharing
14 July, 2022
Knowledge sharing
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14 July, 2022

ATLAS measures joint polarisation of carriers of the weak force

Joint-polarisation measurements of the W and Z bosons provide new opportunities to look for physics beyond the Standard Model

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Physics
14 July, 2022

Environmental awareness: Biodiversity at CERN

This last infographic in the series highlights the diverse ecosystems that are found around CERN, host to a variety of species of flora and fauna

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At CERN
12 July, 2022

Promising start for future environmental applications of CERN technologies

On 27 June, the CIPEA Innovation Day welcomed 15 innovative project proposals reflecting the CERN community’s commitment to tackling environmental challenges

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At CERN
12 July, 2022

CMS measures rare particle decay with high precision

Using LHC Run 2 data, CMS has precisely measured the rare decay of strange B-mesons to muon-antimuon pairs. While its properties agree with Standard Model predictions, it may provide clues to new discoveries in Run 3

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Physics
11 July, 2022

The third run of the Large Hadron Collider has successfully started

A round of applause broke out in the CERN Control Centre on 5 July at 4.47 p.m. CEST when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detectors started recording high-energy collisions at the unprecedented energy of 13.6 TeV

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At CERN
05 July, 2022

LHCb discovers three new exotic particles

The collaboration has observed a new kind of “pentaquark” and the first-ever pair of “tetraquarks”

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Physics
05 July, 2022

ATLAS and CMS release results of most comprehensive studies yet of Higgs boson’s properties

The collaborations have used the largest samples of proton–proton collision data recorded so far by the experiments to study the unique particle in unprecedented detail

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Physics
04 July, 2022