Tag: CERN community

  • 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) — 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 experiments at JINR (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

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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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  • A pragmatic COVID scale system

    Much work has gone into CERN’s COVID scale and accompanying measures, which will be introduced on 1 June. The overriding objective of the new system is to provide better visibility on the measures that will be applicable at CERN in the coming months. These measures will guide several aspects of life at CERN, from telework

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  • Luc Pape (1939 – 2021)

    Luc Pape (1939 – 2021)

    Luc Pape(1939 – 2021) — It is with great sadness that we announce that our colleague and friend Luc Pape passed away on 9 April 2021 after a brief illness. Luc's long, rich career covered all aspects of our field, from the early days of bubble chamber (BC) physics in the 1960s and 1970s to

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  • The future of CERN’s accelerators and technology in an intriguing physics landscape

    On the accelerator and technology front, our core missions for the next few years have been mapped out in the 2020 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics. Some are a continuation of established business: effective exploitation of our existing facilities and deployment of the ongoing HL-LHC upgrade. Another key focus is the extension

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  • CERN approves new LHC experiment

    CERN approves new LHC experiment

    SND@LHC, or Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC, will be the facility’s ninth experiment

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  • Mouth-watering prospects for Research and Computing at CERN

    It’s great to be back at CERN after a gap of 21 years. Even if the middle of a pandemic is a strange time to arrive, it’s also a time to experience first-hand the strengths of this great Organization as it adapts to the evolving situation. We all have much to take satisfaction from in

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  • Pierluigi Riboni (1935 – 2020)

    Pierluigi Riboni(1935 – 2020) — Pierluigi Riboni passed away in Geneva on 9 November, aged 85, as a consequence of COVID-19. Born in Pavia, Italy, he graduated from Milan Polytechnic in 1961 as a mechanical engineer. After working a few years for Montecatini in Porto Marghera near Venice, he joined CERN as the head of

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