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A demonstrator magnet produces a record magnet field

The eRMC demonstrator, consisting of two flat niobium-tin coils, has produced a peak magnetic field of 16.5 tesla, a promising result in the context of the FCC (Future Circular Collider) study

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Accelerators
25 March, 2020

CERN updates its Open Hardware Licence

Version 2.0 of the CERN Open Hardware Licence has been released, introducing three variants meant to cater to different collaborative models

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Knowledge sharing
12 March, 2020
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12 March, 2020

New LHCb analysis still sees previous intriguing results

The new analysis continues to find tension with the Standard Model, but more data are needed to identify its cause

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Physics
10 March, 2020

At CMS, artificial neural networks search for exotic particles

Machine-learning technology is being used by the CMS collaboration to track odd events among LHC data

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Experiments
06 March, 2020

Ten artworks exploring CERN science travel around the world

A travelling art exhibition entitled ‘Quantum/Broken Symmetries’* will bring the fruit of CERN’s art and science residencies to four new museums worldwide in 2020.

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Knowledge sharing
02 March, 2020
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02 March, 2020

How particle physics could prevent financial fraud

A new collaboration agreement sees CERN data analytics used to help protect commodity and financial markets from fraud

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Knowledge sharing
20 February, 2020
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20 February, 2020

ALPHA reports first measurements of certain quantum effects in antimatter

The measurements are consistent with predictions for “normal” matter and pave the way for future precision studies

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Physics
19 February, 2020

MoEDAL hunts for dyons

The MoEDAL collaboration at CERN reports the first search at a particle accelerator for particles with both electric and magnetic charge

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Physics
17 February, 2020
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17 February, 2020

World’s first proton treatment of a cardiac pathology

A cancer therapy synchrotron that CERN helped to establish has treated a patient with ventricular arrhythmia for the first time

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Knowledge sharing
14 February, 2020
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14 February, 2020

ATLAS releases 13-TeV open data for science education

The collaboration has made public the data of 1 quadrillion proton-proton collisions from the LHC’s last run

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13 February, 2020
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13 February, 2020