Tag: CERN community
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Probing asteroids with particle beams
CERN’s HiRadMat facility is helping scientists to understand how asteroid materials behave under extreme conditions
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Accelerator Report: A very busy technical stop ahead of Long Shutdown 3
This technical stop is particularly intense, being both shorter than usual, to maximise the limited time for physics, and very busy, to make essential preparations for LS3, which begins in June
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Building a culture for success
As we prepare to implement the High-Luminosity LHC and secure approval of a flagship collider to follow it, we must work together to create the best possible environment for success
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Help shape how CERN improves
New year, new ways of working. Here’s your chance to suggest which processes could be improved at CERN
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 CERN community crossword
Thank you to everyone who sent in their completed crosswords
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The January/February 2026 issue of the CERN Courier is out
Physicists can be allies, wrote Wassily Kandinsky, “who test matter again and again, who tremble before no problem, and who finally cast doubt on that very matter which was yesterday the foundation of everything, so that the whole universe is shaken.” This edition of CERN Courier offers two examples of physics to shake the universe.
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Computer Security: A final marathon for service managers
The past two years have brought a lot of new computer-security deployments at CERN: 2-factor authentication, new spam filtering, email quarantining, anti-spoofing protection, 2FA protection for LXPLUS and the CERN Windows Terminal Servers, among others
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Roger Perret (1951 – 2025)
Roger Perret(1951 – 2025) — We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Roger Perret on 20 December 2025. A mechanical design engineer of exceptional expertise and professionalism, Roger joined CERN in 1975, where he served with distinction until his retirement in 2010. Over his 35-year career, within what later became the EN-MME Design
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Advancing cancer therapy with next-gen radionuclides
The PRISMAP programme, coordinated by CERN, has supplied 159 radionuclide batches for cancer research over the past five years
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Upcoming events
Check out this curated list of upcoming events for the CERN community