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Serbia joins the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid

On 9 December, CERN and Serbia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Serbian State Data Centre. The centre will become a Tier1 member of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), the highest level of collaboration within the Grid

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Computing
14 December, 2023
Computing
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14 December, 2023

Making the leap from the impossible to the possible

During the LHC era and on the cusp of the High-Luminosity LHC era, theoretical and experimental physicists are already using precision calculations to find the smallest deviations that might reveal new physics

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Physics
11 December, 2023

CERN Community: take part in the CERN end-of-year crossword!

Submit your answers by 8 January and you could win an LHC Lego set, two Geneva Choco passes or two Balexert cinema tickets

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At CERN
07 December, 2023

Ethical, open and non-commercial: the Open Web Search project is designed to provide Europe with the right alternative to existing search engines

CERN recently hosted the fifth International Open Search symposium, where over 100 experts discussed how to make searching the web in Europe fairer and safer

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Computing
06 December, 2023

Computer Security: Four gifts for your Christmas break

Just as physical threats don’t stop outside working hours, CERN’s annual closure won’t put a stop to cybersecurity attacks in the coming weeks

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Computing
05 December, 2023

HiLumi News: Successful test paves the way for magnet production at CERN

Engineers have successfully tested an improved design of a quadrupole magnet manufactured at CERN, confirming that niobium–tin technology is viable for accelerator magnets

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Accelerators
05 December, 2023
Accelerators
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05 December, 2023

CERN publishes its environment report for 2021–2022

The report highlights progress and areas for future development in CERN’s ongoing efforts to minimise its environmental footprint

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Knowledge sharing
04 December, 2023
Knowledge sharing
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04 December, 2023

ALICE bags about twelve billion heavy-ion collisions

The whopping number of collisions recorded by ALICE during the recent five-week heavy-ion run of the LHC is 40 times greater than the total recorded by the experiment in its previous periods of heavy-ion data taking, from 2010 to 2018

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Experiments
01 December, 2023
Experiments
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01 December, 2023

The CERN community’s ultimate gift guide

Looking for gift ideas? Here are 13 on-site options to find the perfect present

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At CERN
01 December, 2023
At CERN
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01 December, 2023

Celebrating 25 years of service to CERN in 2023

Staff members who marked 25 years of service to CERN in 2023 were invited by the Director-General on 2 November to the traditional ceremony held in their honour

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At CERN
29 November, 2023