Tag: General public
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ATLAS sets record precision on Higgs boson’s mass
New result from the ATLAS experiment at CERN reaches the unprecedented precision of 0.09%
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An even closer look at magic tin
A measurement of the indium-99 atomic nucleus in a long-lived excited state offers an even closer look at the special “doubly magic” tin-100 nucleus than a previous measurement in the ground state
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50 years of giant electroweak discoveries
On 19 July 1973, the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN revealed the existence of weak neutral currents and put the nascent Standard Model of particle physics on solid ground
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Preparing for a quantum leap: researchers chart future for use of quantum computing in particle physics
Experts from CERN, DESY, IBM Quantum and others publish a white paper identifying activities in particle physics that could benefit from the application of quantum-computing technologies
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GBAR joins the anticlub
The GBAR experiment at CERN has just joined the very select club of experiments that have succeeded in synthesising antihydrogen atoms
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ALICE shines light into the nucleus to probe its structure
New ALICE results shed light on the nature of gluonic matter at the LHC
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Arts at CERN collaborates with Science Gallery Melbourne and the ARC Centre for the exhibition “Dark Matters”
Opening on 5 August, “Dark Matters” will bring artworks from Arts at CERN programmes to Australian audiences for the first time
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CERN tech to help investigate the dark universe
ESA’s recently launched Euclid telescope will rely on CERN software and computing infrastructure to help it map the effects of dark matter and dark energy on the Universe
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Three teams of secondary school pupils from the Netherlands, Pakistan and the United States have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams from CERN and DESY
Geneva and Hamburg, 28 June 2023. In 2023, for the second time in the history of the Beamline for Schools competition, the evaluation committee selected three winning teams. The team “Myriad Magnets” from the Philips Exeter Academy, in Exeter, United States, and the team “Particular Perspective”, which brings together pupils from the Islamabad College for
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From physics to finance: how can CERN tools help to uncover market manipulation?
With its world-renowned expertise in the analysis of massive volumes of data, CERN has started a unique collaboration with leading market-surveillance experts to explore how particle physics could help to build future manipulation-detection techniques