Tag: Media
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Mammoth CMS magnet reaches full-field at CERN
Geneva, 13 September 2006. The world’s largest superconducting solenoid magnet has reached full field. Weighing in at over 10,000 tonnes, the CMS experiment’s magnet is built around a 6-metre diameter, 13-metre long superconducting solenoid coil. It generates a field of 4 teslas, some 100,000 times higher than that of the Earth, and stores 2.5 gigajoules
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CERN switches on neutrino beam to Gran Sasso
Geneva, 11 September 2006. CERN1 has switched on a new neutrino beam, aimed through the earth to the INFN2 Gran Sasso Laboratories some 730km away near Rome. This is the latest addition to a global endeavour to understand this most elusive of particles and unlock the secrets it carries about the origins and evolution of
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LHC experiments at CERN on track with cosmic rays
Geneva, 26 July 2006. The giant CMS particle detector at CERN1 has been sealed and switched on to collect data for an important series of tests using cosmic ray particles. The CMS ‘cosmic challenge’ will be carried out with segments of the full set of sub-detectors including a tracking detector composed of 2 m2 of
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Putting your computer to work to fight against malaria in Africa
Geneva, 13 July 2006. While you are sending an email or surfing the web, your computer could be helping to tackle one of Africa’s major humanitarian challenges, malaria. Africa @ home, a project conceived and coordinated by CERN1, was launched publicly this week. It is recruiting volunteer computers in homes and offices to run a
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CERN confirms LHC start-up for 2007
Geneva, 23 June 2006. First collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will happen in November 2007, said LHC project leader Lyn Evans at the 137th meeting of the CERN1 Council held in Geneva today. A two month run in 2007, with beams colliding at an energy of 0.9 TeV will allow the LHC accelerator
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CERN launches second phase of openlab industry partnership
Geneva, 17 May 2006. The second phase of CERN openlab, a partnership between CERN1 and leading IT companies, was officially launched at a ceremony at CERN today. The industrial partners in this second phase are HP2, Intel3 and Oracle4. The second phase of CERN openlab builds on experience from the last three years, where the
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Bringing science out of the lab into the classroom
Heidelberg, 28 March 2006. Science is moving more rapidly than ever; one groundbreaking discovery chases the next at an incredible speed. School teachers have trouble keeping up with the pace, and many pupils call science classes “boring”. Today, Europe’s major research organisations launch Science in School1, the first international, multidisciplinary journal for innovative science teaching,
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Global Grid service for LHC computing succeeds in gigabyte-per-second challenge
Mumbai and Geneva, 15 February 2006 – Today, at the international Computing for High Energy and Nuclear Physics 2006 conference (CHEP’06) in Mumbai, India, the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid collaboration (WLCG) officially announced the successful completion of a service challenge. This challenge involved sustaining a continuous flow of physics data on a worldwide Grid infrastructure
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European particle physics sets course for the future
Orsay, 1 February 2006. “Particle physics has an exciting future” : this was the key message emerging from the Open Symposium on particle physics strategy in Europe, which concluded at Orsay, France, today. Organised by the CERN1 Council Strategy Group, this Symposium is the first of a series of events that will conclude in Lisbon
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ETICS to improve Grid quality
Geneva, 20 January 2006. The kick-off meeting for a new project called ETICS (eInfrastructure for Testing, Integration and Configuration of Software) is being held at CERN1 today. The goal of this project, which is coordinated by CERN and funded partially by the European Commission, is to improve the quality of Grid and distributed software by