Tag: News

  • HL-LHC magnet endurance test further confirms niobium–tin’s resilience

    HL-LHC magnet endurance test further confirms niobium–tin’s resilience

    A full-size, US-produced HL-LHC quadrupole magnet based on niobium–tin technology has passed a critical endurance test, another step towards confirming the technology’s viability inside accelerators

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  • CERN tech in space: the first CERN-driven satellite has been successfully launched

    With the launch of the CELESTA satellite for radiation monitoring in space, CERN shows its expertise in the field of radiation effects on electronics

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  • ATLAS measures joint polarisation of carriers of the weak force

    Joint-polarisation measurements of the W and Z bosons provide new opportunities to look for physics beyond the Standard Model

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  • Environmental awareness: Biodiversity at CERN

    This last infographic in the series highlights the diverse ecosystems that are found around CERN, host to a variety of species of flora and fauna

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  • Promising start for future environmental applications of CERN technologies

    On 27 June, the CIPEA Innovation Day welcomed 15 innovative project proposals reflecting the CERN community’s commitment to tackling environmental challenges

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  • CMS measures rare particle decay with high precision

    Using LHC Run 2 data, CMS has precisely measured the rare decay of strange B-mesons to muon-antimuon pairs. While its properties agree with Standard Model predictions, it may provide clues to new discoveries in Run 3

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  • Wandering artist explores CERN

    Wandering artist explores CERN

    French graphic novelist Benjamin Reiss took advantage of a stay in the Pays de Gex to visit the ISOLDE facility and soak up the world of science

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  • The third run of the Large Hadron Collider has successfully started

    The third run of the Large Hadron Collider has successfully started

    A round of applause broke out in the CERN Control Centre on 5 July at 4.47 p.m. CEST when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detectors started recording high-energy collisions at the unprecedented energy of 13.6 TeV

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  • The new LHCb VELO

    The new LHCb VELO

    The VELO (Vertex Locator), the most recent addition to LHCb, was successfully installed a few weeks before the start of Run 3

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  • LHCb discovers three new exotic particles

    LHCb discovers three new exotic particles

    The collaboration has observed a new kind of “pentaquark” and the first-ever pair of “tetraquarks”

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