Tag: CERN community
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A few words from CERN’s first official guide
Félix Hoffmann was a CERN tour guide for more than 50 years
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Two new members elected to the Senior Staff Advisory Committee (“the Nine”) in 2023
“The Nine”, who inform and advise the Director-General, are now seeking topics for discussion for the coming year
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Oscar Barbalat (1935 – 2023)
Oscar Barbalat(1935 – 2023) — Oscar Barbalat, electronics engineer and knowledge transfer pioneer at CERN, died on 8 September, aged 87. Born in Liège, Belgium, in 1935, he joined CERN in 1961, working initially for the PS-RF group. At the time, the PS beam intensity was still below 109 protons/pulse and the beam control system
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Computer security: T2U4U2FA* *Thanks to you for using 2FA
One year ago, the CERN Computer Security team and the IT Identity Management team started the CERN-wide roll-out of multifactor authentication to staff and users. The combination of a second “factor”, i.e. something you have, and the primary factor “something you know”1, i.e. your password, provides the ultimate silver bullet for the protection of your
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ATLAS measures strength of the strong force with record precision
The result showcases the power of the LHC to push the precision frontier and improve our understanding of nature
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Maria Fidecaro (1930 – 2023)
Maria Fidecaro(1930 – 2023) — We are deeply saddened to learn that Maria Fidecaro, an experimental physicist who joined CERN in 1957, passed away on 17 September. Maria was a familiar face to the CERN community until long into her retirement, often seen arm-in-arm with her husband Giuseppe as they made their way through the
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CERN Science Gateway: pre-inauguration for the CERN community
On 19 and 20 September, Science Gateway will open its doors to the CERN community with a pre-inauguration and visits
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ALICE reports new charmonia measurements in LHC Run 3
The ALICE collaboration presents its first results based on data collected with the upgraded detector in 2022, the first year of Run 3 of the LHC, at the 2023 Quark Matter conference
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Accelerator Report: Getting lead ions ready for physics
In about a week, lead ions will be sent from the SPS into the LHC to collide in the accelerator’s four big experiments
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Accelerating stroke prevention
The same AI algorithms used to diagnose anomalies in CERN’s complex accelerator chain have the potential to detect brain pathologies such as strokes