Tag: CERN community
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Philippe Mermod (1978 – 2020)
Philippe Mermod(1978 – 2020) — It is with great sadness that we inform you that Philippe Mermod, a member of the ATLAS and SHiP collaborations at CERN, passed away on 20 August 2020. Philippe was born in Geneva in 1978 He obtained his Master’s degree in 2002 from the University of Geneva and his PhD
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By protecting yourself, you protect others
Like the rest of the world, CERN is going through challenging times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, the virus did not vanish during the summer but is still circulating among the global population. In numerous countries, the number of infections is rising again – resulting in renewed constraints on our professional and private lives.
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Horst Wenninger (1938 – 2020)
Former CERN director Horst Wenninger played key roles in the approval of the LHC and in firmly establishing knowledge transfer at CERN
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Rare phenomenon observed by ATLAS features the LHC as a high-energy photon collider
The ATLAS experiment reports the observation of photon collisions producing weak-force carriers and provides further insights into their interactions
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CERN experiments announce first indications of a rare Higgs boson process
The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN have announced new results which show that the Higgs boson decays into two muons
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LS2 Report: The High-Luminosity LHC is ready for injection
A new beam absorber, developed for high luminosity, has been installed in the LHC
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Claude Détraz (1938 – 2020)
Claude Détraz, a noteworthy figure in nuclear and particle physics in France and Europe, passed away on Saturday, 20 June 2020
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Henri Laporte (1928 – 2020)
Henri Laporte(1928 – 2020) — One of the key figures in the construction of LEP passed away on 18 May 2020. Henri Laporte led the civil-engineering work for the Large Electron-Positron Collider in the 1980s, the biggest construction project for fundamental research ever undertaken and which included the construction of the 27 km tunnel that
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LHCb discovers a new type of tetraquark at CERN
The LHCb collaboration has observed an exotic particle made up of four charm quarks for the first time
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Particle physicists update strategy for the future of the field in Europe
The CERN Council today announced that it has updated the strategy that will guide the future of particle physics in Europe