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Accelerator Report: Beams are circulating in the LHC

On 8 March, three days ahead of schedule, the first proton beam was injected into the LHC, kicking off the 2024 LHC beam commissioning

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Accelerators
14 March, 2024

You see an empty field? We see an “Open Sky Laboratory”!

Solutions proposed in the Future Circular Collider “Mining the Future” competition will now be evaluated in a 10 000 square metre “Open Sky Laboratory”

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Accelerators
14 March, 2024

Reducing emissions related to duty travel: everybody’s contribution counts

New recommendations provide guidance for making environmentally responsible travel choices

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At CERN
13 March, 2024

CERN community: celebrate spring at CERN with us

Send us your photos of spring at CERN and you could win a Chocopass offered by the CAGI cultural kiosk at CERN

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At CERN
13 March, 2024

Farewell to the Alcatel phone exchange

Following the migration to software-based phones, CERN phones are now fully virtual and the Alcatel phone exchange has been disconnected

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Computing
12 March, 2024
Computing
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12 March, 2024

Computer Security: Bingo walk-through

Bravo to all those who participated in the Bull**** Bingo and sent us their solution. Some people were wondering why their responses were not correct… Good point, so let’s walk through that Bingo

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Computing
12 March, 2024
Computing
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12 March, 2024

Enabling open access to books

An expanded collaboration agreement between CERN and the OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) Foundation sees the Laboratory directly hosting the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books in its Data Centre

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Knowledge sharing
06 March, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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06 March, 2024

CERN detector could help to improve head tumour radiotherapy

Scientists are testing a new device to help target cancer cells more accurately in ion radiotherapy of head and neck tumours, which could help limit the treatment’s side effects. It includes Timepix3, a small particle detector developed at CERN

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Knowledge sharing
06 March, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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06 March, 2024

The Open Quantum Institute launches its pilot phase at CERN

The three-year pilot will build on the efforts to date to help unleash the full power of quantum computing for the benefit of all

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Computing
05 March, 2024

LHCb observes a new decay mode of the charmed beauty meson

The result has implications for future searches for rare beauty meson decays and for the interpretation of results from the Fermilab g-2 experiment

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Physics
04 March, 2024