Tag: CERN community

  • Getting back to a diverse physics programme after LS2

    The Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) is back in operation after close to three years of intense maintenance and upgrades. With this milestone behind us, and with only the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) left to restart, it is hard not to be excited about getting back to physics after LS2. The SPS is the last link

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  • Paul Bossard (1936 – 2020)

    Paul Bossard(1936 – 2020) — BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://home.cern/news/obituary/cern/paul-bossard-1936-2020) It is with great sadness that we inform you of the death of Paul Bossard, a retired member of the CERN personnel who worked for several decades on the construction of magnets in the CERN accelerator chain together with their electrical systems.

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  • Laying the foundations for a solid future

    On 21 June, we laid the symbolic foundation stone of the Science Gateway: an occasion to show the great progress that is being made towards CERN’s new learning centre. Speakers at the ceremony, including the President of the Council making her presentation from the Pompidou Centre in Paris, used the occasion to underline CERN’s values

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  • LIVE: From the CMS experiment

    LIVE: From the CMS experiment

    Join scientists live from the underground cavern of the CMS experiment today on social media

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  • A warm welcome back to our visitors

    On 1 June 2021, CERN restarted a number of activities for the public after having had the doors closed for visits and events due to the COVID-19 pandemic

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  • Two high-school teams from Italy and Mexico win the CERN Beamline for Schools competition

    Two high-school teams from Italy and Mexico win the CERN Beamline for Schools competition

    Two teams of high-school students from the Liceo Scientifico Statale “A. Scacchi” (Bari, Italy) and the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria “Plantel 2” (Mexico City, Mexico) have won the 2021 edition of the Beamline for Schools competition

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  • CERN lays first stone of Science Gateway

    CERN lays first stone of Science Gateway

    Today, CERN held a first stone ceremony for Science Gateway, the Laboratory’s new flagship project for science education and outreach

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  • Join us in launching CERN’s Year of Environmental Awareness on 24 June

    Last Saturday was World Environment Day, and a fitting occasion for us to launch CERN’s Year of Environmental Awareness, an initiative allowing everyone involved with the Laboratory to discover CERN’s work in the field of environmental protection, and to find out how we can all contribute. We are launching the initiative in 2021 for good

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  • Alexander Dmitrievich Kovalenko (1945 – 2021)

    Alexander Dmitrievich Kovalenko (1945 – 2021)

    Alexander Dmitrievich Kovalenko(1945 – 2021) — BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://home.cern/news/obituary/cern/alexander-dmitrievich-kovalenko-1945-2021) It is with great sadness that we have learned that Russian physicist Alexander Dmitrievich Kovalenko has passed away at the age of 76. Alexander had been assistant director of the LHE (Laboratory of High-Energy Physics) for the accelerator complex and ongoing

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  • FASER catches first candidate collider neutrinos

    FASER catches first candidate collider neutrinos

    The result paves the way for studies of high-energy neutrinos at current and future particle colliders

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