Tag: CERN community
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Hans Joachim Specht (1936 – 2024)
Hans Joachim Specht(1936 – 2024) — Hans Joachim Specht, one of the founders of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion physics and a pioneering figure in hadron cancer therapy, passed away on 20 May 2024, at the age of 87. A graduate of the University of Munich and ETH Zurich, and full Professor at the University of Heidelberg for
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CERN’s communications receive European recognition
CERN’s Education, Communication and Outreach group receive the European Association of Communication Directors Excellence award
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Arts at CERN awarded European Commission’s S+T+ARTS Grand Prize for Innovative Collaboration
Arts at CERN wins the Grand Prize for groundbreaking initiatives at the nexus of science, technology and the arts
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Mats Lindroos (1961 – 2024)
Mats Lindroos(1961 – 2024) — Mats Lindroos, who made major contributions to accelerator technology, passed away on 2 May 2024 aged just 62. Mats received his PhD in subatomic physics from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1993 under the supervision of Björn Jonson. As a PhD student he studied decay properties and
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ATLAS dives deeper into di-Higgs
By combining multiple Higgs boson pair studies, physicists are closer to finding out how the particle interacts with itself, providing clues to the stability of the Universe
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Instruments of Vision opens in Santiago de Compostela as a collaboration between Arts at CERN and IGFAE
In this exhibition, Armin Linke, former artist in residence at CERN, explores the research environments at the laboratories
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How can AI help physicists search for new particles?
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations are using state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to search for exotic-looking collisions that could indicate new physics
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Bringing black hole jets down to Earth
The Fireball collaboration has used CERN’s HiRadMat facility to produce an analogue of the jets of matter and antimatter that stream out of some black holes and neutron stars
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Shaking the box for new physics
The CMS collaboration has searched for new physics in a rare decay of a known particle, using an approach that can be likened to shaking a box containing a birthday present to find a clue about what’s inside
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Accelerator Report: Setting the stage for a productive summer
We are optimistic that we will have a successful luminosity production period this summer