Tag: General public
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ALICE bags about twelve billion heavy-ion collisions
The whopping number of collisions recorded by ALICE during the recent five-week heavy-ion run of the LHC is 40 times greater than the total recorded by the experiment in its previous periods of heavy-ion data taking, from 2010 to 2018
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Exotic atomic nucleus sheds light on the world of quarks
CERN and the Accelerator Laboratory in Jyväskylä, Finland, have teamed up to weigh in on the understanding of the effects of the weak force on quarks
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Progress Pride flag lights up the Esplanade des Particules in honour of LGBTQ+ STEM day
For the first time in its history, CERN raises the Progress Pride flag on the main Esplanade, showing solidarity with the worldwide scientific LGBTQ+ community
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Host State Presidents visit CERN
President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron and President of the Swiss Confederation Alain Berset visited CERN on 16 November
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Thick-skinned: Scientists determine the thickness of neutron “skin” in lead-208 nuclei
This is the first measurement of the neutron skin of lead-208 using exchanges predominantly involving gluons and it can provide insight into the structure of nuclei and neutron stars
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ISOLDE sees shape shifting in gold nuclei
The finding comes a little more than 50 years after the phenomenon was first discovered at the facility in mercury nuclei
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CERN and the World Food Programme sign a memorandum of cooperation
The collaboration between the two international organisations will promote access to and use of breakthrough innovations in the field of IT to fight hunger worldwide
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CMS presents its latest search for new exotic particles
This search for exotic long-lived particles looks at the possibility of “dark photon” production, which would occur when a Higgs boson decays into muons displaced in the detector
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Digital twins at CERN and beyond
Discover how these virtual copies of reality are being used at CERN and what their impact is on society
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Heard about quantum technology? Now it’s time to understand it!
Quantum technology is among the biggest talking points on the web. And yet, the general feeling is that only experts can understand it. The Sparks! Forum at CERN aims to prove this wrong