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CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works.
The Large Hadron Collider - CERN
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.It first started up on 10 September 2008, and remains the latest addition to CERN’s accelerator complex.The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way.
Particle physicists chart a course to the future | CERN
Oct 11, 2024 · The discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012 confirmed the final predicted piece of the Standard Model of particle physics – a powerful quantum theory which describes three of nature’s four fundamental forces. Yet, despite its unparalleled success, the Standard Model explains only 5% of the Universe and ...
Summer Student Programme - CERN
The CERN Summer Student Programme offers students pursuing bachelor’s or master’s degrees in physics, computing, engineering and maths a unique opportunity to join in the day-to-day work of research teams participating in experiments at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Beyond the outstanding first-class scientific value of their stay, the selected students will find working in a ...
LHC experiments at CERN observe quantum entanglement at the …
Sep 18, 2024 · In an article published today in Nature, the ATLAS collaboration reports how it succeeded in observing quantum entanglement at the LHC for the first time, between fundamental particles called top quarks and at the highest energies yet. First reported by ATLAS in September 2023 and since confirmed by a first and a second observation made by the ...
Blowing out 70 candles: CERN celebrates seven decades of …
Oct 1, 2024 · Today, CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, is hosting a special high-level ceremony to celebrate its 70th anniversary, attended by 38 national delegations, including Heads of State and Government from Bulgaria, Italy, Latvia, Serbia, Slovakia and Switzerland, Her Royal Highness the Princess Astrid of Belgium, and the President of the European Commission. In addition to the ...
ATLAS measures strength of the strong force with record precision
Sep 25, 2023 · The strong force, which is carried by gluon particles, is the strongest of all fundamental forces of nature – the others being electromagnetism, the weak force and gravity. Yet, it’s the least precisely measured of these four forces. In a paper just submitted to Nature Physics, the ATLAS collaboration describes how it has used the Z boson ...
Professor Costas Fountas elected as next President of the CERN …
Sep 24, 2021 · Last week, the CERN Council elected Professor Costas Fountas as its 25th President, for a period of one year, renewable twice, with a mandate starting on 1 January 2025. He will take over from Professor Eliezer Rabinovici, who concludes his term at the end of December. “Professor Fountas is an experimentalist of the highest calibre, who has played key roles in the CMS collaboration at the ...
BASE experiment takes a big step towards portable antimatter
Oct 25, 2024 · Antimatter might sound like something out of science fiction, but at the CERN Antiproton Decelerator (AD), scientists produce and trap antiprotons every day. The BASE experiment can even contain them for more than a year—an impressive feat considering that antimatter and matter annihilate upon contact. The CERN AD hall is the only place in the world where scientists are able to store and ...
CERN Council selects Mark Thomson as next Director-General, …
Nov 6, 2024 · Today, the CERN Council selected British physicist Mark Thomson as the Organization’s next Director-General. The appointment will be formalised at the December session of the Council and Professor Thomson’s five-year mandate will begin on 1 January 2026. “Congratulations to Professor Mark Thomson on his selection as the next CERN Director-General from January 2026,” said CERN’s ...