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CERN pays tribute to Murray Gell-Mann
The Nobel laureate, who coined the name “quarks”, passed away on 24 May
More than a spring-clean for LHC magnets
Teams are hard at work in the LHC tunnel to improve the electrical insulation of the diodes of more than 1200 magnets
CMS hunts for dark photons coming from the Higgs boson
The CMS collaboration has searched for collision events in which the Higgs boson transforms into a photon and a hypothetical dark photon
ATLAS surveys new supersymmetry territory
New studies from the ATLAS collaboration search for hypothetical “supersymmetric” particles around uncharted corners
ATTRACT funding is awarded to 170 breakthrough projects
The EU-funded programme announces the successful proposals in its call for projects. CERN scientists are involved in 19 of the projects selected
Lock the Planck: the kilogram has a new definition
From today, all SI base units will be defined based on natural constants, with the kilogram the last to join the ranks
In Granada, the European particle physics community prepares decisions for the future of the field
The European particle physics community is meeting this week in Granada, Spain, to discuss the roadmap for the future of the discipline
LS2 Report: consolidating the energy extraction systems of LHC superconducting magnet circuits
The energy extraction systems absorb the energy of the LHC magnets in case of a quench. Their consolidation is conducted in collaboration with two Russian institutes
CERN's flagship travelling exhibition goes to India
‘Accelerating Science’ exhibition will visit Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata
Successful tests of a cooler way to transport electricity
A new superconducting electrical transmission line for the High-Luminosity LHC uses new materials, a new cooling system and unprecedented technologies