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A roadmap for the future

CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Gian Giudice, Head of CERN's Theory Department, comment on the scientific vision and priorities for the field laid out in the recently updated European Strategy for Particle Physics

Opinion
Physics
02 October, 2020
Physics
Opinion
02 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

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

NA63 makes crystal-clear study of radiation reaction

The NA63 collaboration has made a high-precision study of the phenomenon of radiation reaction, using particle beams and crystals

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Physics
22 September, 2020

CERN technology helps rediscover lost painting by Raphael

CERN’s Timepix particle detectors, developed by the Medipix2 Collaboration, help unravel the secret of a long-lost painting by the great Renaissance master, Raphael

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Knowledge sharing
21 September, 2020
Knowledge sharing
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21 September, 2020

CERN and CHUV collaborate on a pioneering new cancer radiotherapy facility

CERN and the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) are collaborating to develop the conceptual design of an innovative radiotherapy facility, used for cancer treatment

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Knowledge sharing
15 September, 2020
Knowledge sharing
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15 September, 2020

CERN and the LHC experiments’ computing resources in the global research effort against COVID-19

As time moves on and the community gets organised, new computing-related solutions and collaborations unfold to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic

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Computing
02 September, 2020

The ALICE TPC is upgraded

The refurbished detector was lowered into the ALICE cavern and installed in the experiment in August

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Experiments
01 September, 2020
Experiments
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01 September, 2020

CMS experiment at CERN releases fifth batch of open data

All research-quality data from proton–proton collisions recorded by CMS during the first two years of LHC operation are now publicly available

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Knowledge sharing
27 August, 2020
Knowledge sharing
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27 August, 2020

LHCb discovers first “open-charm” tetraquark

The particle, which has been called X(2900), was detected by analysing all the data LHCb has recorded so far from collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

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Physics
21 August, 2020