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Search for new physics through multiboson production

At the LHCP conference this year, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented new results relating to a physics process called vector boson scattering

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Physics
11 June, 2020

Computer Security: Videoconferencing pitfalls

After two months of teleworking, videoconferencing has become the ultimate tool for staying in touch with colleagues, friends and family: There is a plethora of potential tools and a plethora of pitfalls to catch us out

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Computing
11 June, 2020

Allen initiative key to LHCb trigger upgrade

From 2021, the first stage of LHCb’s high-level trigger will be run using GPUs. Investigations into its feasibility were supported by CERN openlab

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Computing
09 June, 2020

Exploring new ways to see the Higgs boson

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations presented their latest results on new signatures for detecting the Higgs boson at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

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Physics
04 June, 2020

CERN collaborations present new results on particles with charm quarks

The ALICE, CMS and LHCb collaborations present new measurements that show how particles containing charm quarks can serve as “messengers” of hadrons and the quark–gluon plasma, carrying information about these forms of matter

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Physics
29 May, 2020

Fresh antimatter study by ALICE will help with search for dark matter

The study of light antinuclei – from creation to annihilation – will bolster future indirect dark matter searches

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Physics
28 May, 2020

Computer Security: Don’t answer me

Last year, the CERN Security Operations Centre detected 27 CERN hosts contacting so-called "tracking domains" used for reconnaissance and associated with national state-sponsored actors

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Computing
28 May, 2020
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28 May, 2020

ISOLDE scores a first with laser spectroscopy of short-lived radioactive molecules

The result represents an essential step towards using these molecules for fundamental physics research and beyond

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Physics
27 May, 2020

Computer Security: Still on Windows 7? Say “bye bye” to your digital life

Support for Windows 7 ended in January 2020. Apart from for some customers who are paying an extra fee, Microsoft has stopped providing any assistance and security fixes for that version of their operating system

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Computing
26 May, 2020