Tag: CERN community

  • Discover how IdeaSquare will form part of the upcoming CERN Science Gateway offerings

    Discover how IdeaSquare will form part of the upcoming CERN Science Gateway offerings

    The resources developed by IdeaSquare for the Crowd4SDG project will continue to drive innovation through future Science Gateway workshops and masterclasses

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  • LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay

    LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay

    The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have joined forces to establish the first evidence of the rare decay of the Higgs boson into a Z boson and a photon

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  • Lebanon inaugurates the computer servers donated by CERN

    Lebanon inaugurates the computer servers donated by CERN

    The computing equipment, which will shore up scientific capacities in Lebanon, was inaugurated in the presence of the country’s Prime Minister and a CERN/CMS delegation

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  • ISOLDE takes a solid tick forward towards a nuclear clock

    ISOLDE takes a solid tick forward towards a nuclear clock

    The observation at CERN’s nuclear physics facility of a long-sought decay of the thorium-229 nucleus in a solid-state system is a key step towards a clock that could outclass today’s most precise atomic clocks

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  • Accelerator Report: Full house in the LHC

    Accelerator Report: Full house in the LHC

    On 11 May, four days before the original schedule had set a target of 1200 bunches per beam, the LHC made its final intensity ramp-up step to 2400 bunches per beam

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  • Fireball at HiRadMat

    Fireball at HiRadMat

    CERN’s HiRadMat facility restarts this week with a new experiment nicknamed “Fireball”, which will give new insights into extreme astrophysical phenomena such as gamma-ray bursts

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  • Collaboration with CERN – an asset for scientific communities in the Middle East

    Collaboration with CERN – an asset for scientific communities in the Middle East

    Across the Middle East and North Africa region, CERN has set up scientific collaborations to promote access to education and innovation

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  • Klaus Bätzner (1936 – 2022)

    Klaus Bätzner (1936 – 2022)

    Klaus Bätzner(1936 – 2022) — BROKEN IMAGE NOT MOVED (drupal url : https://home.cern/news/obituary/cern/klaus-batzner-1936-2022) It was with great sadness that we recently learned that our friend and former colleague Klaus Bätzner passed away in December 2022. Klaus devoted his career to CERN. Among the many projects he worked on were the Proton Synchrotron (PS) and increasing

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  • Computer security: A bank à la CERN

    When doing cybersecurity, protective measures must be adapted to your environment and needs. For a bank, it’s obvious that protecting physical and digital money, and confidential data about customers, is of the utmost importance. Hence, security is tight, well controlled and comes with lots of restrictions, giving attackers a very small attack surface to penetrate

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  • Eleven successful years and counting for the Be a Scientist project

    Eleven successful years and counting for the Be a Scientist project

    For 684 budding scientists from schools in the local area, the 11th edition of the Be a scientist project wrapped up on Thursday, 11 May 2023.

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