Tag: CERN community
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News from the March 2025 CERN Council Session
The ongoing update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, new Associate Member States and knowledge transfer activities were among many topics discussed in the 221st session of the CERN Council
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CMS finds unexpected excess of top quarks
Data from the CMS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider reveals an intriguing excess of top-quark pairs, hinting at the first observation of a composite particle with unique properties
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AEgIS transforms smartphone sensors into an antimatter camera of unprecedented resolution
The AEgIS collaboration, led by a team from the Technical University of Munich, has repurposed smartphone camera sensors to create a detector capable of imaging antiproton annihilations in real time with unprecedented resolution
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CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider
Released today, a report of a study investigating the project’s feasibility will serve as input for the European Strategy for Particle Physics and be assessed by the CERN Council in the coming months
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Symmetry between up and down quarks is more broken than expected
Surprising results from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN show that this so-called isospin asymmetry could point to gaps in physicists’ understanding of how quarks and gluons combine
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CERN community: Join our spring scavenger hunt to win chocolate
Celebrate the start of spring by exploring CERN’s biodiversity online, with the chance to win two CAGI Choco Passes
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A trailblazer at 90
Find out how CERN is celebrating the 90th birthday of medical physics pioneer Ugo Amaldi and how you can be involved
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CERN mobility: driven by data, naturally
Particle physics is all about data, and so too is mobility at CERN. Over the years, our travel habits have been changing, and more changes are to come
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Computer Security: The cost of compromise
Recently, the Computer Security Office reported on a cybersecurity incident at a remote Tier 2 site of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG)
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Accelerator Report: The LHC commissioning is well on track, but challenges lie ahead
The first beam-based physics of 2025 has started and more will follow soon. However, some unexpected challenges will cause a small delay in the restart of the LHC