Tag: News

  • Accelerator Report: LHC protons outpacing the Easter tradition

    Accelerator Report: LHC protons outpacing the Easter tradition

    The LHC has restarted and both beams have been circulating in the machine since 8 April, meaning that the start of the LHC beam commissioning during Easter is apparently not a constant of nature

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  • A journey through CERN’s past in black and white

    A journey through CERN’s past in black and white

    An exhibition of old black-and-white photos at Geneva’s Bains des Pâquis retraces some of CERN’s history

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  • ATLAS gets under the hood of the Higgs mechanism

    ATLAS gets under the hood of the Higgs mechanism

    The detection of longitudinally polarised W boson production at the Large Hadron Collider is an important step towards understanding how the primordial electroweak symmetry broke, giving rise to the masses of elementary particles

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  • Computer Security: ThisIsAVeryGoodPassword

    Computer Security: ThisIsAVeryGoodPassword

    Let’s give up the complexity rules (letters, symbols, numbers) and go for long passwords, i.e. “passphrases”, instead. Long but easy to remember

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  • CERN signs a joint Statement of Intent with Canada

    CERN signs a joint Statement of Intent with Canada

    The Statement of Intent between CERN and Canada concerns future planning for large research infrastructure facilities, and novel and advanced techniques and tools

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  • CERN announces artist selected for the Resonance residency

    CERN announces artist selected for the Resonance residency

    Marion Tampon-Lajarriette has been awarded the inaugural residency of Resonance, a programme run by Arts at CERN in partnership with the Republic and Canton of Geneva and the City of Geneva

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  • CMS finds unexpected excess of top quarks

    CMS finds unexpected excess of top quarks

    Data from the CMS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider reveals an intriguing excess of top-quark pairs, hinting at the first observation of a composite particle with unique properties

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  • AEgIS transforms smartphone sensors into an antimatter camera of unprecedented resolution

    AEgIS transforms smartphone sensors into an antimatter camera of unprecedented resolution

    The AEgIS collaboration, led by a team from the Technical University of Munich, has repurposed smartphone camera sensors to create a detector capable of imaging antiproton annihilations in real time with unprecedented resolution

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  • CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider

    CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider

    Released today, a report of a study investigating the project’s feasibility will serve as input for the European Strategy for Particle Physics and be assessed by the CERN Council in the coming months

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  • Symmetry between up and down quarks is more broken than expected

    Symmetry between up and down quarks is more broken than expected

    Surprising results from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN show that this so-called isospin asymmetry could point to gaps in physicists’ understanding of how quarks and gluons combine

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