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Maximum atmosphere at the Mini Atmoiades
Rachel BrayThe CERN team won the tennis tournament for the Mini Atomiades 2016.Over 180 participants from 10 different European Scientific Research Institutes came together on the first weekend of June...
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Higgs Boson Pizza Day
Stefania PandolfiWhat do the Higgs boson and a pizza have in common? Pierluigi Paolucci, INFN and CMS collaboration member, together with INFN president Fernando Ferroni found out the answer one day in...
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Linac4 crosses the 100 MeV threshold
Corinne PralavorioMembers of the team in charge of the commissioning of Linac4 in the accelerator’s control room. A few hours earlier, Linac4 accelerated a beam to 107 MeV for the first time.We...
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LHCb unveils new particles
Stefania PandolfiA view of the LHCb experimental cavern. (Image: Claudia Marcelloni/CERN)On 28 June, the LHCb collaboration reported the observation of three new "exotic" particles and the confirmation...
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A campus-wide Wi-Fi service for CERN
Tony Cass for the IT DepartmentAll Wi-Fi traffic will be routed via central controllers in CERN’s Computer Centre to provide a better managed service. (Image: Veronika McQuade/CERN)The IT department’s...
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LHC Report: astounding availability
Andrea Apollonio for the LHC teamLHC integrated luminosity in 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016 and the prediction of the 2016 performance foreseen at the start of the year.Following the 2015-2016 end of year...
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LHC Report: staying cool despite record highs
Jorg WenningerLHC integrated luminosity in 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016It’s been a record-breaking period for the LHC. On the evening of Wednesday, 1 June, the maximum number of bunches achievable with...
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Six new projects will bridge gap between CERN and society
Anaïs RassatComputer racks at the CERN Data Centre, the heart of CERN’s entire scientific, administrative, and computing infrastructure.CERN has awarded funding to six new projects with the aim to...
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Double victory for CERN at the "Tour du canton de Genève"
CERN Running ClubThe team “Entreprise femmes” with, from left to right, Lucie Baudin, Joanna Stanyard, Maïté Barroso-Lopez, Ana Garcia-Tabares and Elisa Garcia-Tabares (Claire Hauw, also member of the...
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Milan exhibition opens doors to particle physics enthusiasts
Kathryn ColdhamPoster promoting the “Extreme. In search of particles” exhibition, which is open to the public from 13 July 2016 in Milan. (Image: Leonardo da Vinci National Museum of Science and...
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Bike2Work 2016 is over – keep on pedalling!
Kathryn ColdhamTeams cycle to work at CERN’s Meyrin site in June, as part of Bike2Work 2016. (Image: Sophia Bennett/CERN)A record number of 142 CERN teams battled June rain to achieve ninth place in...
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The CERN & Society programme launches its newsletter
Matteo CastoldiThe CERN & Society programme encompasses projects in the areas of education and outreach, innovation and knowledge exchange, and culture and creativity that spread the CERN spirit of...
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EIROforum goes to ESOF 2016
James GilliesThe main hall of the Manchester Central complex in which the ESOF conference will take place. (Photo : ESOF 2016/Enna Bartlett)Sunday 24 July sees the opening of the seventh EuroScience...
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The hundredth Gentner Doctoral Student has started at CERN
The hundredth Gentner Doctoral Student, Christian Zimmer, in front of the AEgIS detector in the AD hall, where he will spend a significant portion of the next 3 years.In 2007, the German Gentner...
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Fighting fires... with science
Anaïs SchaefferOne of the UL FSRI’s model houses is set alight... in the interest of science. (Photo: ©UL FSRI)For around ten years, the Underwriters Laboratories Firefighter Safety Research Institute...
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Voices of Romanian scientists
Stefania PandolfiMembers of the ATLAS from Romanian institutes at CERN (from left to right): Dan Ciubotaru, Michele Renda, Bogdan Blidaru, Alexandra Tudorache, Marina Rotaru, Ana Dumitriu, Valentina...
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EUCYS prizewinner visits CERN
Jennifer ToesBaris Volkan Gürses, EUCYS prizewinner, visiting the Microcosm.After winning both regional and national competitions in Turkey, 18-year-old student Baris Volkan Gürses competed against 169...
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Spaceflight participant visits CERN!
Kathryn ColdhamIranian-American Anousheh Ansari was the first-ever female spaceflight participant, spending eight days on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2006. She now has a new addition to...
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Computer Security: WWW censorship? Not at CERN
Stefan Lueders and Computer Security Team Computer security at CERN must always find the right balance between CERN’s academic environment, its operations and security itself. Of course we can easily...
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On 19 July, the world-famous, English rock band, Muse, visited CERN before taking centre-stage at Nyon’s Paléo Festival. They toured some of CERN’s installations, including the Synchrocyclotron and the...
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