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NA62 announces its first search for long-lived particles

CERN’s kaon factory pushes the energy frontier to probe uncharted territories of many beyond-the-Standard-Model theories

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Physics
09 August, 2024

Breakthrough in rapid cooling for BASE antiprotons

The experiment has developed a new device for cooling antiprotons more efficiently and for considerably increasing the precision of measurements of their fundamental properties

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Experiments
02 August, 2024

AMBER releases its first results

The experiment’s preliminary results explore the production cross section of the antiproton, which may provide physicists with clues in the search for dark matter

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Physics
02 August, 2024
Physics
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02 August, 2024

CERN70: Green light for LEP

Herwig Schopper was Director-General of CERN from 1981 to 1988, during which time the Large Electron Positron collider was approved and constructed

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At CERN
31 July, 2024
At CERN
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31 July, 2024

ATLAS probes uncharted territory with LHC Run 3 data

The ATLAS collaboration has released its first results from searches for new physics phenomena conducted with data from Run 3 of the LHC

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Physics
26 July, 2024

CERN and Pro Helvetia announce the artists selected for the Connect India residency

Arts at CERN, in collaboration with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, announced today that Swiss artist Lou Masduraud and Indian artist Shailesh BR have been selected for the Connect India dual residency

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At CERN
18 July, 2024

LHCb investigates the properties of one of physics’ most puzzling particles

The particle, known as χc1(3872), has fascinated physicists for years. Now, the LHCb collaboration is closer to finding out what it is made up of

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Physics
16 July, 2024

Digital archaeology: new LEP data now available to all

Retrieving and preserving access to data from experiments that ran in the 90s is a complex task carried out by passionate experts in the IT department

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Computing
15 July, 2024

CERN70: The end of the alphabet

Carlo Rubbia’s name is closely related to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN. In 1984, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, together with Simon van der Meer, for the work he had done as head of the UA1 collaboration

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At CERN
11 July, 2024
At CERN
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11 July, 2024

Less hungry magnets for the experiments of the future

A prototype superconducting coil developed for the SHiP experiment opens the way for more energy-efficient electromagnets for certain applications

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Engineering
05 July, 2024