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ALICE honours its thesis award winners

Fabrizio Grosa and Arild Velure are the young laureates of the 2020 award

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Experiments
09 October, 2020
Experiments
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09 October, 2020

CMS sees evidence of top quarks in collisions between heavy nuclei

The result opens the path to study in a new and unique way the extreme state of matter that is thought to have existed shortly after the Big Bang

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Physics
09 October, 2020

LHCb sees new form of matter–antimatter asymmetry in strange beauty particles

The LHCb collaboration has observed time-dependent matter–antimatter asymmetry in the decays of strange beauty particles into charged kaons

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Physics
06 October, 2020

Science Gateway construction gets the green light

Construction of CERN’s Science Gateway is to start later this year, following receipt of official permission from the Geneva authorities. This unique facility is due to open to the public at the end of 2022

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Knowledge sharing
01 October, 2020
Knowledge sharing
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01 October, 2020

Computer Security: From the digital trenches

During a recent audit of CERN’s computer security, the question was raised of how many attacks CERN is subjected to each day...

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Computing
01 October, 2020
Computing
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01 October, 2020

CERN meets quantum technology

The CERN Quantum Technology Initiative will explore the potential of devices harnessing perplexing quantum phenomena such as entanglement to enrich and expand its challenging research programme

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Computing
30 September, 2020
Computing
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30 September, 2020

Keeping the ATLAS Inner Detector in perfect alignment

The ATLAS Inner Detector can measure the position of charged particles that pass through it to better than a 100th of a millimetre! To reach that precision, the detector must be aligned to equal or better accuracy

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Experiments
30 September, 2020
Experiments
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30 September, 2020

Highlights from the ATTRACT deep-tech conference

From medical imaging to a robotic fish, the ATTRACT conference explored a wealth of breakthrough technologies

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At CERN
29 September, 2020

LS2 Report: 144 new muon detectors in CMS

CMS now has a new layer of detectors: 144 gas electron multiplier (GEM) chambers have been installed to detect the muons produced in the very forward region of CMS

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Experiments
29 September, 2020
Experiments
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29 September, 2020

Flashes of electrons against cancer

Meet Steinar Stapnes, Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) project leader, in the first of our Knowledge Transfer spotlight series

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Knowledge sharing
29 September, 2020
Knowledge sharing
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29 September, 2020