Tag: CERN community
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Arnulfo Zepeda Domínguez (1943 – 2020)
Arnulfo Zepeda Domínguez(1943 – 2020) — Born in 1943 in San Luis de Potosí, Mexico, Arnulfo Zepeda graduated in nuclear engineering from the University of Prague in 1967. He then joined Cinvestav (the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional), where he obtained a PhD in physics in 1970, and
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ALPHA cools antimatter using laser light for the first time
The result opens the door to considerably more precise studies of the internal structure of antihydrogen and of how it behaves under the influence of gravity
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Intriguing new result from the LHCb experiment at CERN
The LHCb results strengthen hints of a violation of lepton flavour universality
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Gerd-Jürgen Beyer (1940 – 2021)
Gerd-Jürgen Beyer(1940 – 2021) — Gerd Beyer, who passed away on 20 January at the age of 81, left his mark by developing the biomedical field of research, both at ISOLDE (CERN) forty years ago and at many other laboratories. He will be remembered as a tireless worker in the field of nuclear and applied
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CERN launches Technology Impact Fund to address global challenges
First selected project could save lives by providing earlier earthquake alerts
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TOTEM and DØ collaborations announce odderon discovery
The TOTEM collaboration at the LHC and the DØ collaboration at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab have discovered an elusive state of three gluons
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Jean Willy André Cleymans (1944 – 2021)
Jean Willy André Cleymans(1944 – 2021) — Jean Cleymans, a pioneer in the study of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions and a leader of the South Africa–CERN collaboration, passed away on 22 February 2021 in a tragic accident in his hometown, Turnhout, in Belgium. Jean was not only a most distinguished theorist in the field of high-energy