Tag: General public
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ALICE eyes the cosmos
New data from the ALICE experiment, collected when no particle beams were circulating in the LHC during pauses in Run 2, may contribute to solving a puzzle surrounding cosmic muons
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CERN and ESA: a decade of innovation
As ESA celebrates its 50th anniversary, discover seven ways Europe’s space agency and CERN have been working together to further fundamental exploration and innovation in space technologies
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CERN expands its collaboration on the Einstein Telescope
CERN and the Einstein Telescope collaboration have signed a new collaboration agreement in the field of engineering and safety to advance Europe’s next-generation gravitational-wave observatory
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AI enhances Higgs boson’s charm
The CMS collaboration presents a new search for the decay of a Higgs boson into charm quarks, bringing physicists closer to unravelling how this unique particle endows matter with mass
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Chile to become an Associate Member State of CERN
On 16 May 2025, CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Chile, Aisén Etcheverry signed an agreement admitting Chile as an Associate Member State of CERN
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How imagining life on exoplanets sparks real-world solutions
The IdeaSquare Planet programme inspires students to tackle global challenges through creativity and collaboration
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Ireland to become an Associate Member State of CERN
On 8 May 2025, CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Irish Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science James Lawless signed an agreement admitting Ireland as an Associate Member State of CERN
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ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
Near-miss collisions between high-energy lead nuclei at the LHC generate intense electromagnetic fields that can knock out protons and transform lead into fleeting quantities of gold nuclei
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And they’re off! The 2025 LHC physics season gets underway
“Stable” particle beams are back in the LHC machine, marking the start of the 2025 physics data-taking campaign
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Top marks for CERN in 2025 European Physical Society awards
The CERN-led educational programme Beamline for Schools is among the recipients of the 2025 awards of the European Physical Society’s High Energy and Particle Physics Division