Tag: CERN community

  • Official News regarding the CERN Safety Rules

    Official News regarding the CERN Safety Rules Written by: HSE unit — The CERN Safety Rules listed below have been published on the CERN website dedicated to the Safety Rules: Safety Guidelines provide detailed instructions for the implementation of CERN Safety Rules. Compliance with a Safety Guideline provides a presumption of conformity with the associated

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  • The accelerator chain prepares for high luminosity

    The accelerator chain prepares for high luminosity

    The accelerators that feed into the Large Hadron Collider are ready to supply more intense beams

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  • Accelerator Report: We reached 100!

    Accelerator Report: We reached 100!

    On 6 October, the total integrated luminosity passed the symbolic mark of 100 fb⁻¹, exceeding the forecast curve. This allowed the bunch intensity to be increased to explore the intensity reach and limitations in view of the HL-LHC era

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  • Felix Bloch’s Nobel medal now on display at CERN

    Felix Bloch’s Nobel medal now on display at CERN

    This year, on the occasion of what would have been the 120th birthday of Felix Bloch, first Director-General of CERN and 1952 Nobel laureate in physics, the physicist’s family generously donated his Nobel prize medal to CERN

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  • Happy 2nd birthday to CERN Science Gateway

    Happy 2nd birthday to CERN Science Gateway

    After two years of operation, CERN Science Gateway has welcomed more than 750 000 visitors from across the world, thanks to the commitment of the CERN community

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  • Leadership handover at HL-LHC

    Leadership handover at HL-LHC

    Oliver Brüning, who has led the HL-LHC project since 2020, is handing the position of HL-LHC project leader over to Markus Zerlauth

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  • HiLumi News: the cold sets in

    HiLumi News: the cold sets in

    The delivery of two huge compressors kicks off the installation of the new helium refrigerators for the High-Luminosity LHC

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  • Investigating beneath Lake Geneva

    Investigating beneath Lake Geneva

    This animation shows how different layers of the lake’s bed are being mapped as part of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Feasibility Study

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  • Computer Security: 20 years of securing controls (or trying to): nothing has changed?

    Computer Security: 20 years of securing controls (or trying to): nothing has changed?

    20 years ago, control systems used to be stand-alone systems, usually decoupled from the larger enterprise networks, using their own network cabling infrastructures and programming languages dedicated to control systems. But no more…

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  • Which bin should I use for my unwanted cast-iron blocks?

    Which bin should I use for my unwanted cast-iron blocks?

    Got any blocks of cast iron lying around in a corner of your office? They might be useful for the future Beam Dump Facility (BDF) for the SPS

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