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In the wake of partons
Today, almost all the quarks in our Universe are neatly organised into larger particles, glued together by aptly named gluons. For the first few millionths of a second after the Big Bang, however, quarks and gluons were not confined, forming instead a state of matter known as a quark–gluon plasma (QGP). By studying the QGP
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CERN-made HiLumi LHC quadrupoles ready for installation
After years of design, manufacturing and testing, the High-Luminosity (HiLumi) LHC magnet programme has reached a landmark point: all eight new CERN-made quadrupole magnets needed for installation are ready for the tunnel (with two spares produced and entering their final stages). Known as the new inner triplets, these magnets are now complete and have been fully
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CERN’s first Innovation Hub pilot to open in Belgium
CERN and POM Limburg, Limburg’s provincial development agency, signed an agreement today to establish the first CERN Innovation Hub pilot at Corda Campus in Hasselt, Belgium. The hub will give Belgian industry access to technologies and expertise developed at CERN. Jan-Paul Brouwer, CERN Director for Finance and Human Resources, will sign on behalf of the Laboratory. In line
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CERN and Mistral join forces to accelerate AI for science
CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, and Mistral, a European developer of large-scale AI models, have signed a statement of intent to establish a long-term strategic partnership focused on developing foundation models for scientific discovery. The partnership brings together CERN’s expertise in fundamental physics, scientific data and large-scale computing with Mistral’s leadership in large-scale
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Studying beautiful flavour transitions
Studying rare processes is part and parcel of particle physics, providing stringent tests of the Standard Model. At the recent International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP), the CMS and LHCb Collaborations presented their latest research into one such process: the transformation of a beauty quark into a strange quark, a muon and the oppositely charged antimuon (b→sμ+μ–). Flavour transitions – when
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C++ creator talks about the future of programming
Behind the scenes of CERN’s accelerators and detectors, millions of lines of code help turn particle collisions into scientific knowledge. One of the programming languages behind that work is C++, used to control detectors, process data and simulate particle interactions. On 14 July, its creator, Bjarne Stroustrup, filled CERN’s Main Auditorium for his seminar 21st
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The SPS turns 50
Protons, antiprotons, electrons, positrons, oxygen and lead ions… the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) has been juggling particles with ease for the past 50 years. By turns an accelerator, a collider and an injector, this versatile machine has seen generations of scientists pass through its doors, supplied dozens of experiments and given rise to groundbreaking technologies
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CERN launches the Grand Prix Resonance, a special edition of the annual Resonance residency programme
Arts at CERN, the City of Geneva and the Republic and Canton of Geneva are pleased to announce the launch of the Grand Prix Resonance, the third year of the Resonance residency programme. Resonance is a fully funded two-month residency at CERN for artists based in Geneva exploring the connections between art, science and technology. The programme, which started
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Beam tests boost progress on detector technologies for the Future Circular Collider
The proposed Future Circular Collider (FCC) at CERN would put the Universe under a microscope like never before. By colliding electrons and positrons at four points around a 91 km ring, it would enable scientists to pin down the properties of the Higgs boson and other fundamental particles with a precision beyond the reach of
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CERN congratulates Nobel Prize winner Francis Halzen
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen for his contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which discovered high-energy neutrinos coming from far beyond our Solar System. This work is paving the way for a new generation of observatories to exploit neutrinos as a unique messenger of extreme environments in the