Tag: General public
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Estonia becomes an Associate Member of CERN in the pre-stage to Membership
CERN welcomes Estonia as an Associate Member State in the pre-stage to Membership
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Potassium nucleus loses some of its magic
A new study at ISOLDE finds no signature of a “magic” number of neutrons in potassium-51, challenging the proposed magic nature of nuclei with 32 neutrons
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BASE opens up new possibilities in the search for cold dark matter
The Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) at CERN’s Antimatter Factory has set new limits on how easily axion-like particles could turn into photons
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Martinus Justinus Godefriedus Veltman (1931 – 2021)
Martinus Justinus Godefriedus Veltman(1931 – 2021) — Martinus (“Tini”) Veltman started his scientific career relatively late: he obtained his PhD from the University of Utrecht in 1963(1) under the supervision of Leon Van Hove, but had already moved to CERN in 1961, where Van Hove had been named Leader of the CERN Theory Division. At
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Martinus Veltman (1931 – 2021)
Martinus Veltman(1931 – 2021) — Martinus “Tini” Veltman, who shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his former student Gerardus ‘t Hooft, passed away on 4 January at the age of 89. A regular visitor to CERN since the early 1960s, Veltman served on the Scientific Policy Committee from 1976 to 1982, where he
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Relive 2020 at CERN
Highlights of the year at CERN, from engineering and accelerator milestones to particle physics results and much more
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Jack Steinberger (1921 – 2020)
Jack Steinberger(1921 – 2020) — Jack Steinberger, a giant of the field who contributed so much to the experimental development of the Standard Model, passed away on 12 December 2020 aged 99. Born in the Bavarian town of Bad Kissingen in 1921, he left Germany at the age of 13 to escape rising antisemitism and
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CERN announces new open data policy in support of open science
A new open data policy for scientific experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will make scientific research more reproducible, accessible, and collaborative
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ALICE opens avenue for high-precision studies of the strong force
The collaboration shows how proton–proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider can reveal the strong interaction between composite particles called hadrons
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New schedule for CERN’s accelerators and experiments
The schedule for the current long shutdown (LS2) has had to be modified due to the COVID-19 pandemic