Tag: CERN community

  • CERN experiments announce first indications of a rare Higgs boson process

    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

    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 (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)

    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

    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

    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

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  • Estonia to become Associate Member in the Pre-Stage to Membership of CERN

    Estonia to become Associate Member in the Pre-Stage to Membership of CERN

    Today, the representatives of CERN and of the Government of Estonia signed an Agreement admitting Estonia as an Associate Member in the Pre-Stage to Membership of CERN.

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  • High-school teams from Switzerland and Germany win CERN Beamline for Schools competition

    High-school teams from Switzerland and Germany win CERN Beamline for Schools competition

    Two teams of high-school students from Switzerland and Germany, have won the 2020 Beamline for Schools competition

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  • Search for new physics through multiboson production

    Search for new physics through multiboson production

    At the LHCP conference this year, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented new results relating to a physics process called vector boson scattering

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  • Exploring new ways to see the Higgs boson

    Exploring new ways to see the Higgs boson

    The ATLAS and CMS collaborations presented their latest results on new signatures for detecting the Higgs boson at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

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