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COVID-19: CERN in the coming weeks
CERN is open in virtual mode. Many scientists and collaborators are teleworking.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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