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CERN besieged at Royaume du Web
Marika Matilda AnnilaAt the Royaume du Web event at Palexpo, CERN’s virtual reality tour mesmerised children and adults alike. (Image: Max Brice, Julien Marius Ordan/CERN)Thanks to the invention of the...
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ESA astronauts visit CERN
Iva RaynovaThe ESA astronauts at the AMS Payload Operations Control Centre (Image: Sophia Bennett/CERN)A group of 13 astronauts* from the European Space Agency (ESA) payed a visit to CERN on 12 May...
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CERN and French space agency CNES start R&D collaborations
Anaïs RassatOn Tuesday, 25 April 2017, CERN and the French space agency, CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales), signed a cooperation agreement to encourage collaboration on innovations in the...
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LHC Report: setting up for the next season
Jorg Wenninger for the Operations groupThe first collisions with stable beams were delivered to the LHC experiments today, with three bunches circulating in each beam. This marks the start of the...
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Here’s to a long life for Linac 4!
Corinne PralavorioView of the PI-Mode Structure (PIMS) cavities, which will accelerate the Linac 4 beam from 100 to 160 MeV. These cavities are one of the innovations of Linac 4. (Image : Maximilien...
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How will SuShi protect the FCC?
Daniel Barna and Miroslav AtanasovThe SuShi septum principle where the black arrows indicate the shielding currents in the superconductor and the red arrows indicate the magnetic field in the midplane...
View ArticleComputer Security: improve your code with Gitlab CI
The Computer Security TeamWell-tested code is the cornerstone of a reliable and robust software stack: nothing is more annoying than a crashing, failing or misbehaving application, the loss of time and...
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ARIES project kicks off at CERN
Jennifer Toes on behalf of the ARIES consortiumARIES members attend the kick-off meeting at CERN’s Globe of Science and Innovation, May 2017 (Image: CERN)The ARIES project officially began on 1 May...
View ArticleLHC Report: Moving Fast Forward
Rende Steerenberg for the Operations groupAccording to the official LHC schedule first stable beams were scheduled for 12 June, following a 5-week beam recommissioning period and a 7-day scrubbing...
View ArticleBirth of the high-energy network
Laure Esteveny project leader for the CERN Alumni ProgrammeWith over 60 years of history and currently more than 13,000 users from all over the world, CERN clearly has great potential to bring together...
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Enriching CERN’s heritage object collection
Iva RaynovaA piece from the CERN heritage object collection – a sample of the ATLAS transition radiation tracker, made of straw tubes. Filled with a gas mixture and threaded with a wire, each straw is...
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Discover the hidden treasures of CERN’s archive
Anita HollierCERN Archives opened their doors to photographers during the Photowalk event in 2015, revealing their treasures of the past, such as the documents donated by the widow of the Nobel...
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Marie Curie, women and science, then and now
Laurianne TrimoullaThis lecture will also provide an opportunity to shed some light on the image above. In 1930, Marie Curie and Albert Einstein came for lunch in the Pays de Gex, at the Hôtel Léger in...
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Keep up to date with CERN’s new website
Harriet JarlettCERN is rebuilding its digital portfolio (a.k.a. the home.cern website, and all websites that use the CERN theme).The web team will be blogging regularly about the decisions they’ve made...
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Baby MIND moved to East Hall
Stefania PandolfiOn 14 June, the Baby MIND neutrino detector was moved, module by module, from Building 180 to Building 157 (East Hall). The succession of coil windings and (red) iron plates is clearly...
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Swedish teachers go back to school at CERN
CERN physicist Richard Jacobsson (at the centre) in the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) hall with the Swedish physics teachers participating in the 2017 programme of visits and lecturesFrom 16 to 18 June,...
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LHC Report: clear skies for the 2017 LHC run
Giovanni Rumolo for the e-Cloud scrubbing teamSnapshot of the typical star-like distribution of the electron cloud on the beam screen of a sextupole magnet.Despite the ultra-high vacuum of the LHC beam...
View ArticleCERN’s new communications strategy for 2017-2020
Ana GodinhoLots of organisations communicate. But not all organisations communicate strategically –purposefully sharing information to the right people, at the right time, and engaging people in their...
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Two presidential visits to CERN
Anaïs SchaefferPresident Ameenah Gurib-Fakim signs the CERN Visitors’ Book at the end of her visit. ** (Image: Julien Marius Ordan/CERN)Visit of the President of the Republic of MauritiusThe President...
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Tell us your Higgs stories
Were you one of the lucky few who could get into the full auditorium for the announcement? (Image: Maximilien Brice, Laurent Egli/CERN)Where were you and what were you doing when you first heard about...
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