Tag: News
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Accelerator Report: Beyond the LHC – CERN’s Beams Keep Science Moving
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may have entered Long Shutdown 3 (LS3), but across the rest of CERN’s accelerator complex operations remain as busy as ever. The LHC injector chain continues to provide proton beams for a broad range of users, including the ELENA antiproton community, the East and North Area experiments and the n_TOF
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HiRadMat celebrates 15 years of research
2026 marks the 15th anniversary of the High Radiation to Materials facility at CERN
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Computer Security: One click to many
More senior colleagues might still recall the regular “clicking” campaigns that were intended to raise security awareness within the Organization among staff and users. With the roll-out of two-factor authentication, such campaigns were dropped. However, the world continues to turn and novel functionality and novel attack vectors try to circumvent our protections. And they have
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Oxygen collisions at the LHC show new indications of extreme state of matter
One year on from the first-ever collisions of oxygen at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the main LHC Collaborations – ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – have each reported signs of the state of matter known as quark–gluon plasma (QGP) originating from these collisions. QGP is a state of matter that forms under intense pressure
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New street names at CERN honour distinguished figures
Streets at CERN have carried names since the mid-1960s. While many have been named after renowned figures – historically, mainly men – in science and related fields, others have retained more generic names such as Route des Physiciens and Route des Services. To better reflect the diversity of the people who have contributed to CERN
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Reading the layers beneath Lake Geneva
Understanding what lies beneath the surface is essential to assessing any major underground infrastructure project. For the placement studies for the proposed Future Circular Collider (FCC), this means developing the most accurate possible picture of the geological formations along the proposed tunnel route, including beneath Lake Geneva. Investigations on the lake began in 2025 with
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CMS explores subtle matter–antimatter difference using beauty mesons
The CMS experiment uses its largest sample of beauty mesons to date to perform a high-precision test of subtle differences between matter and antimatter
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ATLAS and CMS recognise longstanding industrial partner Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
With this award, the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations recognise the crucial role Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. has played in the development and production of advanced technologies, as well as the ongoing, deeply rooted partnership that has been established with both experiments over many years. Through this close collaboration, Hamamatsu Photonics has made exceptional contributions to the
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CMS celebrates the winners of its 2025 Awards
Every year, the CMS Collaboration congratulates individuals who have made significant contributions across the experiment by presenting them with a CMS Award. These Awards highlight the essential work done in detector operations, software development, data analysis, and overall efforts made on behalf of the Collaboration. “Within CMS, many colleagues make contributions that go beyond the
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LHCb announces its 2026 Collaboration Award winners
Congratulations to the 2026 winners of the LHCb Thesis Awards, Early-Career Scientist Awards and Technical Awards. The Awards were presented during LHCb week at CERN on Wednesday, 24 June. “These prizes recognise the excellent work performed by some of our collaborators, but there were also many others who were very deserving,” said the Chairs of