Tag: News

  • The SM18 test facility in the HL-LHC era

    The SM18 test facility in the HL-LHC era

    SM18 is one of the largest magnet test facilities in the world. Dedicated to testing superconducting magnets and radiofrequency cavities, it is now waiting for the first HL-LHC components

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  • LHC Report: The switch was flipped, and the beams were dumped

    LHC Report: The switch was flipped, and the beams were dumped

    Looking back on an exciting year for the LHC and its injector complex

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  • BioDynaMo modelling platform accelerates biological simulation and more

    BioDynaMo modelling platform accelerates biological simulation and more

    The BioDynaMo project, launched by CERN openlab in 2015, has now reached maturity and is seeking new applications

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  • Assessing the seismic safety of CERN’s installations

    Assessing the seismic safety of CERN’s installations

    Surrounded by the Alps, the Jura and Lake Geneva, CERN is located in a particularly complex geological setting, which also happens to be a non-negligible earthquake-prone region. Compared to the rest of Europe, Switzerland has a moderate seismic risk, but the Swiss Seismological Service (SED) indicates that earthquake activity is not evenly distributed throughout the

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  • CAST-CAPP inches closer to axion dark matter

    CAST-CAPP inches closer to axion dark matter

    The CAPP axion haloscope at the CAST experiment has hunted for axions from the Milky Way’s “halo” of dark matter, and has narrowed down the theoretical space in which to look for these hypothetical particles

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  • CERN and Airbus partnership on future clean aviation

    CERN and Airbus partnership on future clean aviation

    CERN and Airbus UpNext sign a collaboration agreement to assess the use of superconducting technologies for future low-emission aeroplanes

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  • Computer Security: What’s under the tree?

    It’s time to review what Father Christmas and his elves, gnomes and reindeers, if you happen to believe in them, have put under the computer security tree

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  • From CERN to space: staff member selected to join the ESA 2022 astronaut class

    From CERN to space: staff member selected to join the ESA 2022 astronaut class

    Selected out of more than 22 500 applicants, CERN engineer Sławosz Uznański from Poland has been chosen as one of the 11 members of the ESA 2022 astronaut class in the reserve pool

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  • CERN, CHUV and THERYQ join forces for a world first in cancer radiotherapy

    CERN, CHUV and THERYQ join forces for a world first in cancer radiotherapy

    CERN, CHUV and THERYQ have signed an agreement for the development of a revolutionary FLASH radiotherapy device

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  • Outreach award for initiative to teach high-school physics with CERN detectors in Spain

    Outreach award for initiative to teach high-school physics with CERN detectors in Spain

    CERN microelectronics experts, secondary school teachers in Catalonia and researchers at the University of Barcelona have teamed up to facilitate the dissemination of Minipix detectors in Spanish secondary schools

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