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New chairs for the Antiproton Decelerator Users Community
New and old ADUC chairs: from left to right, Walter Oelert, Chloé Malbrunot, Stefan Ulmer, Horst Breuker. (Image: CERN)CERN has two essential frontiers for new discoveries: the high-energy physics...
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High-level visits to CERN
The President of the Republic of Austria, Alexander Van der Bellen, and his wife (first two on the left), with Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General, and Heinz Faßmann, Minister for Education,...
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What’s YETS for the experiments?
Harriet JarlettWork to maintain the LHCb detector has been carried out during the YETS. Here you see, from right to left, the muon chambers, the LHC beam pipe, the hadronic calorimeter and the...
View ArticleComputer security: Malware, ransomware, doxware and the like
The Computer Security TeamComputer security was easy in the last century, when malicious infections usually just involved people misusing a computer to spread or, in the worst cases, delete files. But...
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Managing scientific data at the exascale with Rucio
Group photo of the Rucio community workshopThe first Rucio community workshop was held on 1 and 2 March at CERN and brought together computing experts from several experiments and organisations. The...
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Training particle and accelerator scientists of the future
Frédérick Bordry, CERN’s Director of Accelerators and Technology, during his speech for the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the JUAS school and the fifth anniversary of its sister...
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The PUMA project: Antimatter goes nomad
Cristina AgrigoroaeAntimatter’s journey between the ELENA and ISOLDE facilities (Image: CERN)Antimatter is extremely vulnerable, as it vanishes instantly on contact with matter. However, it has...
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The end of YETS: awakening from hibernation
The slumbering LHC during YETS, seen here in February 2018 (Image: Maximilien Brice/Julien Ordan/CERN)CERN’s annual Year-End Technical Stop (YETS) has now come to a close. The Laboratory’s accelerator...
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The music of ProtoDUNE
Kate KahleNicola McConkey, a post-doctoral researcher from the University of Sheffield, with her violin in one of the ProtoDUNE cryostats at CERN (Image: Roberto Acciarri/CERN)In a huge warehouse at...
View ArticleComputer security: CERN Secure Password Competition
The Computer Security TeamOnce more, it’s time for a spring clean at the CERN Single Sign-On portal. We will take this opportunity to review all 20,000+ passwords used with CERN primary, secondary and...
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Young refugees perform rapid-prototyping at CERN
Achintya RaoThe participants present their prototypes (Image: Harri Toivonen/CERN)The IdeaSquare facility at CERN recently played host to a group of young refugees as part of the “We Start” programme...
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CERN experiment sees hints of a rare kaon decay
Ana LopesNA62 experiment in CERN's North Area (Image: NA62/CERN)In a seminar on 27 March at CERN, the NA62 collaboration reported a candidate event of an ultra-rare charged kaon decay found using a new...
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LHC Report: CERN accelerators back in business
Rende SteerenbergWith the restart of the accelerators, the CERN Control Centre (CCC) also comes back to life, with experts flocking around the consoles once again. (Image: CERN)For the accelerator...
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Particle detectors meet canvas
Cristina AgrigoroaeSlotting a painting into the X-ray scanner, which will analyse it at a high resolution. (Image: InsightArt s.r.o.)Technologies from particle physics continue to find applications in...
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For Women in Science international rising talents visit CERN
Seven L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science international rising talents with Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General (Image: Julien Ordan/CERN)On 27 March, seven L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science...
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Improving the quality of working life at CERN
Anaïs SchaefferAs announced by the Director-General in October last year, a working group has been established to foster a better quality of working life at CERN and, in particular, to identify, remedy...
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Ready to get mould on your walls?
Do you have old photographic slides at home, capturing images from the 20th century in a 24x36mm plastic frame and requiring a projector to see them properly? If you have, and you are keen to keep them...
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A new era of precision for antimatter research
Ana LopesALPHA experiment (Image: Maximilien Brice/CERN)The ALPHA collaboration has reported the most precise direct measurement of antimatter ever made, revealing the spectral structure of the...
View ArticleComputer security: CERN Secure Password Competition… NOT!
The Computer Security TeamOK. Apparently, our “Secure Password Competition” announced in the last Bulletin was too easily spotted as an April Fools’ gag… Congratulations to those who didn’t fall for...
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Inspiring tomorrow’s coders
Ioanna KoutavaA studious atmosphere at the workshop (Image: Sophia Bennett/CERN)CERN develops and hosts various activities to encourage female students to take up science subjects and women to enter...
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