Tag: General public
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How can physicists make particle accelerators more efficient?
Using AI, machine learning and automation, the Efficient Particle Accelerator (EPA) project aims to boost the efficiency of CERN’s accelerators for the high luminosity era and beyond
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ATLAS probes Higgs interaction with the heaviest quarks
With its updated analysis methods, the ATLAS collaboration has significantly improved the precision of its measurements of Higgs boson interactions
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CERN welcomes Estonia as its 24th Member State
Estonia becomes the first Baltic country to join CERN as a full Member State
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Students pitch innovative ideas to tackle healthcare issues using particle accelerators in 10-day challenge
Global healthcare issues – from prosthesis pain to severe burns – were targeted by four student teams in the I.FAST project’s third challenge-based initiative
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Re-engineering radiotherapy
The Smart Technologies to Extend Lives with Linear Accelerators (STELLA) project aims to turn technology developed for particle physics into a novel radiotherapy system suited to the challenging environments of low- and middle-income countries
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Cosmic count exceeds expectation
The AMS detector on board the International Space Station has found more cosmic rays made of deuterons than expected
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ALICE does the double slit
Using collisions between lead nuclei at the LHC, the ALICE collaboration has measured an interference pattern akin to that of the famous double-slit experiment
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NA62 announces its first search for long-lived particles
CERN’s kaon factory pushes the energy frontier to probe uncharted territories of many beyond-the-Standard-Model theories
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Breakthrough in rapid cooling for BASE antiprotons
The experiment has developed a new device for cooling antiprotons more efficiently and for considerably increasing the precision of measurements of their fundamental properties
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AMBER releases its first results
The experiment’s preliminary results explore the production cross section of the antiproton, which may provide physicists with clues in the search for dark matter