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Science Gateway construction gets the green light
Construction of CERN’s Science Gateway is to start later this year, following receipt of official permission from the Geneva authorities. This unique facility is due to open to the public at the end of 2022
CERN meets quantum technology
The CERN Quantum Technology Initiative will explore the potential of devices harnessing perplexing quantum phenomena such as entanglement to enrich and expand its challenging research programme
NA63 makes crystal-clear study of radiation reaction
The NA63 collaboration has made a high-precision study of the phenomenon of radiation reaction, using particle beams and crystals
CERN technology helps rediscover lost painting by Raphael
CERN’s Timepix particle detectors, developed by the Medipix2 Collaboration, help unravel the secret of a long-lost painting by the great Renaissance master, Raphael
CERN and CHUV collaborate on a pioneering new cancer radiotherapy facility
CERN and the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) are collaborating to develop the conceptual design of an innovative radiotherapy facility, used for cancer treatment
CERN and the LHC experiments’ computing resources in the global research effort against COVID-19
As time moves on and the community gets organised, new computing-related solutions and collaborations unfold to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic
The ALICE TPC is upgraded
The refurbished detector was lowered into the ALICE cavern and installed in the experiment in August
CMS experiment at CERN releases fifth batch of open data
All research-quality data from proton–proton collisions recorded by CMS during the first two years of LHC operation are now publicly available
LHCb discovers first “open-charm” tetraquark
The particle, which has been called X(2900), was detected by analysing all the data LHCb has recorded so far from collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
LS2 Report: CERN’s newest accelerator awakens
Linac 4 has taken over from the retired Linac 2 as the first accelerator in the LHC injection chain