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Upgrading the LHCb sub-detectors for the HL-LHC

The LHCb experiment is revamping its electromagnetic calorimeter with new high-performance modules and equipping its ring-imaging Cherenkov detectors with very fast electronics

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Experiments
06 June, 2024

CERN70: The world’s first hadron collider

Kjell Johnsen was Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR) project leader when the accelerator was built

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At CERN
29 May, 2024

CERN70: An electronic revolution

Georges Charpak received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1968 invention of the multi-wire proportional chamber, which revolutionised particle detection

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At CERN
16 May, 2024
At CERN
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16 May, 2024

Hunting for millicharged particles at the LHC

The FASER and FORMOSA collaborations team up to test a demonstrator experiment to detect particles with a tiny electrical charge

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Experiments
14 May, 2024

CERN70: The nucleus as a laboratory

Helge Ravn was part of the ISOLDE group from the beginning. When ISOLDE began operations at CERN in 1967, it was unique in the world

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At CERN
02 May, 2024
At CERN
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02 May, 2024

Probing matter–antimatter asymmetry with AI

Using a cutting-edge AI algorithm, the CMS collaboration has obtained the first evidence of CP violation in the decay of the strange beauty meson into a pair of muons and a pair of electrically charged kaons

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Physics
30 April, 2024

MoEDAL zeroes in on magnetic monopoles

The latest searches conducted by the MoEDAL experiment at the Large Hadron Collider considerably shrink the theoretical arenas in which the hunt for magnetic monopoles can continue

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Physics
26 April, 2024
Physics
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26 April, 2024

CERN's edge AI data analysis techniques used to detect marine plastic pollution

CERN’s expertise in data management is leveraged to combat marine plastic litter through the new EU project, Edge SpAIce

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Knowledge sharing
22 April, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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22 April, 2024

CERN70: Cutting-edge computing

Paolo Zanella came to the CERN computing group in 1962, just a few years after the first computer had arrived

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At CERN
17 April, 2024
At CERN
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17 April, 2024

CMS releases Higgs boson discovery data to the public

The collaboration has also made publicly available the software that it developed to search for the unique particle

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Experiments
16 April, 2024