Technical troubleshooting at the CERN Control Centre
If a technical alert goes off at CERN, it will almost certainly show up on one of Chris Wetton's 15 screens in the CERN Control Centre. Wetton is a member of the Technical Infrastructure Operation...
View ArticleAwakening the potential of plasma acceleration
Civil engineering has begun for the new Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) at CERN. This proof-of-principle experiment will harness the power of wakefields generated by...
View ArticleCERN and the American Physical Society announce partnership for open access
The American Physical Society (APS) and The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) jointly announce a partnership to make all CERN-authored articles published in the APS journal collection...
View ArticleCERN turns 60 and celebrates peaceful collaboration for science
Today, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is blowing out 60 candles at an event attended by official delegations from 35 countries. Founded in 1954, CERN is today the largest...
View ArticleOn the front lines of the Higgs boson search
Finding the Higgs boson at CERN involved an exciting chain of events and sharing it with the wider public through the media was also a journey of discovery, Prof. Jon Butterworth told an audience at...
View ArticleCERN nuclear physics lab admits Pakistan
The world's top particle physics lab has admitted Pakistan as an associate member, a year after Israel was voted in as a full member.
View ArticleMinor glitch delays restart of Large Hadron Collider
Officials say a minor glitch will delay the re-start of Europe's multi-billion dollar Large Hadron Collider either a couple of days or more than a month.
View ArticleWorld's largest particle collider ready to restart in 'days'
Physicists have fixed a short-circuit at the world's largest proton smasher, making the particle-hunting machine ready for a restart "within days' time" after a two-year shutdown.
View ArticleParticle smasher set for weekend startup, says CERN
The world's biggest particle collider is set to restart this weekend after a two-year upgrade, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Thursday.
View ArticleSESAME passes an important milestone at CERN
The SESAME project has reached an important milestone: the first complete cell of this accelerator for the Middle East has been assembled and successfully tested at CERN.
View ArticleUS-CERN agreement paves way for new era of scientific discovery
A new agreement between the United States and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) signed today will pave the way for renewed collaboration in particle physics, promising to yield new...
View ArticleAre scientists finally on the brink of understanding where proton spin comes...
For nearly three decades, physicists have been unable to answer a seemingly simple question: where does proton spin come from?
View ArticleGetting to the heart of the matter: CERN's hidden heritage
A nuclear physicist and an archaeologist at the University of York have joined forces to produce a unique appraisal of the cultural significance of one of the world's most important locations for...
View ArticleResearchers create much-needed medical isotopes
No one likes to see leftovers go to waste, and especially not nuclear physicists. Now the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is helping to get the recipe right. The Radioactivity Group at NPL is...
View ArticleCERN and the JRC to scale up production of alpha-emitters against cancer
A novel, accelerator-driven method could produce nuclides for targeted alpha therapy of cancer in practically unlimited amounts, overcoming current obstacles for its wider use due to a limited...
View ArticleCERN upgrade to require removing thousands of old unused cables
(Phys.org)—As if upgrading one of the most complicated pieces of machinery in the world three years from now is not difficult enough, workers on the CERN project are also going to have to remove,...
View ArticleWhat the European Union can learn from CERN about international co-operation
Can Europe work? This is the real question being asked of British people on June 23. Behind the details of subsidies, regulations and eurozones lies a more fundamental puzzle: can different...
View ArticleCERN CMS releases 300 terabytes of research data from LHC
Today, the CMS Collaboration at CERN has released more than 300 terabytes (TB) of high-quality open data. These include over 100 TB, or 2.5 inverse femtobarns (fb−1), of data from proton collisions at...
View ArticleAt CERN, eight-inch sensor chips from Infineon could reveal the mysteries of...
Ninety-five percent of the universe is still considered unexplored. Scientists at CERN, the world's largest particle physics research center, located in Geneva, are working on solving these mysteries....
View ArticleCERN celebrates completion of Linac 4
At a ceremony today, CERN inaugurated its linear accelerator, Linac 4, the newest accelerator acquisition since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Linac 4 is due to feed the CERN accelerator complex with...
View ArticleTop lab CERN launches key new accelerator
Europe's top physics lab CERN launched its newest particle accelerator on Tuesday, billed as a key step towards future experiments that could unlock the universe's greatest mysteries.
View ArticleSHINE software shows data using virtual reality
A new piece of free, online software, called SHINE3D, has been developed by researchers at CERN's NA61/SHINE experiment to show the physics data they're creating in 3-D.
View ArticleHigh voltage for tomorrow's particle accelerator
On behalf of CERN, researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a high-tech device for the production of extremely precise, high voltage pulses that could be used in the next generation of particle...
View ArticleScientists develop synthetic diamond-based detectors for CERN
A research team of Tomsk Polytechnic University is participating in the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN). The TPU scientists were assigned...
View ArticleThe crown jewel of the HL-LHC magnets
While the LHC is at the start of a new season of data taking, scientists and engineers around the world are working hard to develop brand new magnets for the LHC upgrade, the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC).
View ArticleCERN Data Centre passes the 200-petabyte milestone
On 29 June 2017, the CERN DC passed the milestone of 200 petabytes of data permanently archived in its tape libraries. Where do these data come from? Particles collide in the Large Hadron Collider...
View ArticleThe superconducting magnets of the future
The superconducting magnets of the future are under development and CERN is on the front line. To increase the energy of circular colliders, physicists are counting on ever more powerful magnets,...
View ArticleLHC reaches 2017 targets ahead of schedule
Today, CERN Control Centre operators announced good news, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has successfully met its production target for 2017, delivering more than 45 inverse femtobarns to the...
View ArticleBreaking data records bit by bit
This year CERN's data centre broke its own record, when it collected more data than ever before.
View ArticleCMS releases more than one petabyte of open data
The CMS Collaboration at CERN have just made public around half of the data collected in 2012 by the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. This release includes sets used to discover the Higgs...
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