Tag: General public
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A century of quantum mechanics
On 9 July 1925, in a letter to Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg revealed his new ideas, which were to revolutionise physics
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Elusive romance of top-quark pairs observed at the LHC
The CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have observed an unforeseen feature in the behaviour of top quarks that suggests that these heaviest of all elementary particles form a fleeting union
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Slovenian flag raised at CERN
The Slovenian flag was raised today at a ceremony held at CERN to mark the country’s accession as CERN’s 25th Member State
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First-ever collisions of oxygen at the LHC
The Large Hadron Collider gets a breath of fresh air as it collides beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first time. Oxygen–oxygen and neon–neon collisions are also on the menu of the next few days
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Venice event brings future of particle physics into focus
Discussions this week at the Open Symposium of the European Strategy for Particle Physics demonstrate strong progress towards ensuring that CERN remains a world leader in collider physics and technology
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Lift off: CERN engineer travels to space
CERN engineer Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski, now an ESA astronaut, has just taken off for the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
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CERN welcomes Slovenia as its 25th Member State
On 21 June 2025, Slovenia became a Member State of CERN
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AMS upgrade passes qualification tests with flying colours
A new set of “eyes” that will enhance the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer’s sensitivity to cosmic rays is now one step closer to space, thanks to recent progress at CERN
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Sparks! 2025 – Imagining Quantum City
Experience today what quantum cities could look like
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The High-Luminosity LHC test stand is taking shape
The teams are making the final interconnections in the chain of magnets that will be used to test the components of the LHC’s successor