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Training the world’s future quantum experts 💪 From 10 to 12 July 2026, CERN and the Open Quantum Institute (OQI) hosted the second edition of the Quantum Materials Hackathon, which brought together 34 students of over 30 nationalities. Find out more: home.cern/training-the...
With the LHC at room temperature, technicians and engineers will be able to work on the accelerator as it is transformed into the #HiLumiLHC during LS3, a phase of major maintenance and upgrade work.
The current tracker needs replacing to prepare the detector for the higher collision rates expected at the High-Luminosity LHC (#HiLumiLHC). Find out more about the road to #HiLumiLHC: home.cern/science/long... #FranceAtCERN @cnrs-in2p3.bsky.social p3.bsky.social @iphc-strasbourg.bsky.social
CNRS delivers a major component of the future CMS detector at CERN 💫 Last month, the first major mechanical structure of the future tracker of the @cmsexperiment.bsky.social has arrived #AtCERN.
📸 Credits: 1. Cover by Philippe Dinault 2. Julien Marius Ordan 3. & 4. CERN 5. X-ray, NASA/CXC/CfA/Á Bogdán; infrared, NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; processing, NASA/CXC/SAO/P Edmonds and L Frattare 6. Max Badulin
Welcome to the July/August edition of CERN Courier 💫 This issue reports on a ten-year search for a dark sector through missing energy, the open-source framework that unified beam simulation #AtCERN, two decades in which particle physics went global, and much more. Read more: cerncourier.com
Reading the layers beneath Lake Geneva 💧 Understanding what lies beneath the surface is essential to assessing any major underground infrastructure project. Find out more about the geological investigations for the FCC studies: voisins.cern/fr/node/2973 #FutureCollider
#HiLumiLHC: new magnets reach full power 💫 The new generation of quadrupole magnets at the IT String test facility has reached its nominal current, validating key technologies for the #HiLumiLHC. Find out more: home.cern/hilumi-lhc-n...
The puzzle of neutrinos, seventy years on Theorised in 1930 and discovered in 1956, the elusive neutrino still keeps many of its secrets, inspiring research efforts at CERN and around the world. Find out more: home.cern/the-puzzle-o... #Neutrino70 #Neutrino #ParticlePhysics #Science
CMS explores subtle matter–antimatter difference using beauty mesons⚛️ The CMS experiment uses its largest sample of beauty mesons to date to perform a high-precision test of subtle differences between matter and #Antimatter Find out more: home.cern/cms-explores...
One million visitors and counting 🥳 On 1 July, #CERNScienceGateway reached a new milestone as it welcomed its one millionth visitor. Find out more: home.cern/le-portail-d...
AMS releases new cosmic-ray measurements 🌌 The new data from the precision particle-physics detector on the International Space Station provides fresh insights into the nature of cosmic rays. Find out more: home.cern/ams-releases...
François Englert (1932 – 2026) It is with great sadness that we announce that Belgian theoretical physicist, François Englert, has passed away at the age of 93. Read more: home.cern/francois-eng...
The @lhcb.bsky.social discovers the final missing member of a doubly charmed particle family 💫 The new particle, composed of one strange quark and two charm quarks, completes a set of particles first theorised over half a century ago. Find out more: home.cern/lhcb-discove...
Happy 50th anniversary SPS 🎉 #OnThisDay we celebrate the 50th anniversary since the first beam circulated in the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), which is today the second-largest machine in CERN’s accelerator complex Find out more: home.cern/science/accelerators/super-proton-synchrotron/
Arts at CERN and Pro Helvetia announce the artists selected for the 2026 Connect India residency 💫 Find out more: home.cern/arts-at-cern...
Final collisions, new horizons 💫 After 12 years in operation, a record amount of data and thousands of scientific results, the Large Hadron Collider is taking a break. It will be transformed into the #HiLumi LHC, an even more powerful machine. Find out more: home.cern/final-collis...
CERN leads a project to make EU scientific data more accessible The EU-funded HORIZON-ZEN+ project is developing AI tools to improve the increasingly popular EU Open Research Repository. Find out more: lnkd.in/dXH-RQAZ #OpenScience
The May/June edition of #CERNCourier reports on how cosmic filaments are opening a new window on the nature of #DarkMatter, on the physics facilities that keep radiopharmaceuticals in supply, and much more. Read more: cerncourier.com
Students from Bangladesh, India, Türkiye, the UK and the USA win the 13th edition of Beamline for Schools 🏆 Find out more: home.cern/students-fro...
Getting under the skin of atomic nuclei using #antimatter The AEgIS Collaboration lays the groundwork for a new tool to probe the outer periphery of atomic nuclei. Find out more: home.cern/getting-unde...
This week, a new #HeavyIon run began at the Large Hadron Collider, recreating the extreme conditions of the early #Universe. Here we see event-displays from the LHC experiments: @atlasexperiment.bsky.social, @cmsexperiment.bsky.social, ALICE Experiment, @lhcb.bsky.social.
ALPHA measures tiny energy gap in antimatter with improved precision 💫 The ALPHA Collaboration has increased the precision of its measurement of the ground-state hyperfine splitting of antihydrogen by two orders of magnitude. Find out more: home.cern/alpha-measur...