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The CERN Courier is evolving
Matthew ChalmersFrom its first issue in 1959 to today, the CERN Courier magazine has gone through several transformations. Now is the time to help shape its future. (Image: Cristina...
View ArticleMusic, Videos and the Risk for CERN
Stefan Lueders and The Computer Security TeamDo you like listening to music while you work? What about watching videos during your leisure time at CERN? Sure this is fun. Having your colleagues...
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A nature-lover’s guide to CERN
Cristina AgrigoroaeThe “Nature et abeilles” club maintains a dozen beehives and compiles inventories of the flora and insects on the CERN sites. (Image: Julien Ordan, Anna Mestvirishvili/CERN)...
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Summer swarm of students seeks science at CERN
Benedetta NirtaThe summer students from non Member States benefit from a 2 months training programme thanks to the CERN & Society foundation and its donors. (Image: Noemi Caraban/CERN)Summer is...
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Summer science events
Fun physics workshop during Science Night on 7 July: children observe the lines created by magnetic fields. (Image: Loraine Massarotti/CERN)Each summer, CERN goes out to meet the general public,...
View ArticleDigital Broken Windows Theory
The Computer Security TeamHave you ever heard about the “Broken Windows Theory” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory)? It was introduced in 1982 by social scientists and suggests that...
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Complete makeover of the East Area
Cristina AgrigoroaeRenovation of the East Experiment Area of the Proton Synchrotron (PS) (Image: CERN)The East Experiment Area of the Proton Synchrotron (PS) is to be given a complete makeover,...
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ATTRACT: why and how to submit a proposal to the Open Call
Romain MullerATTRACT’s objective is to create a sustainable innovation ecosystem for the breakthrough technologies in detection and imaging that are needed for fundamental research, as well as to...
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LHC Report: first acceleration of partially stripped ions
Matteo Solfaroli, Rogelio Tomas and Jörg WenningerLHC Page 1 announcing the run with “partially stripped ions” in the LHC.The LHC has just come out of a successful week of machine development (MD). At...
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Highlights from the table football tournament
From 11 to 13 July, CERN was swarming with table football enthusiasts, who had signed up for the first charitable tournament organised by the CERN Table Football Club (CTFC) and the CERN & Society...
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CERN is guest of honour at Swiss National Day in Geneva
Marie Beatrice BouvierImage: Noemi Caraban Gonzalez/CERNOn 1 August 2018, CERN was the City of Geneva’s guest of honour at the Swiss National Day celebrations at Parc La Grange.CERN’s tent, which...
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The New Small Wheels set ATLAS on track for high luminosity
Cristina AgrigoroaeThe mechanical structure of the New Small Wheel (Image: CERN)To continue exploring the frontiers of particle physics following the discovery of the Higgs boson, the LHC experiments...
View ArticleComputer Security: An old scam in a new disguise
The Computer Security TeamMoney has always been a catalyst for greed and malice. Blackmail is one way to extort money from the innocent and has existed since ancient times. In the digital world,...
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Success for AWAKE
Achintya RaoThe final part of the AWAKE experimental facility, with the accelerating plasma cell and the scintillating screen used to detect the accelerated electrons and infer their energy. (Image:...
View ArticleDecay of Higgs boson into bottom quarks observed
Six years after the discovery of the Higgs boson, ATLAS and CMS have announced that they have observed its decay into bottom quarks. The result was presented on 28 August at CERN by the two...
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LHC Report: 48 fb-1 and counting
Rende SteerenbergSince the recovery from the five-day machine development (MD) period that started on 23 July, the LHC has been in luminosity production mode, crawling its way up the predicted...
View ArticleComputer Security: The easy way to lose passwords
The Computer Security TeamFollowing up on some questions we received concerning our last Bulletin article (“An old scam in a new disguise”), let us expand on the easiest way to lose your CERN password…...
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Register for LHCreate to bring CERN to the classroom
LHCreate is a hackathon that brings together creative people from CERN as well as students from IPAC Design Genève to work together. The 2018 edition is organised by the CMS, ATLAS and ALICE...
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CERN at the WOMAD: The World’s Festival
For the third consecutive year, CERN and its partners Lancaster University and the Institute of Physics, ran their popular Physics Pavilion at Peter Gabriel’s WOMAD Festival near Bristol (UK).Since the...
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Enjoy science at Researchers’ Night at CERN
On Friday 28 September 2018, the curious of all ages will come together for Researchers’ Night at CERN, a fun and free event in both French and English.The world’s biggest particle physics laboratory...
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