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You see an empty field? We see an “Open Sky Laboratory”!

Solutions proposed in the Future Circular Collider “Mining the Future” competition will now be evaluated in a 10 000 square metre “Open Sky Laboratory”

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Accelerators
14 March, 2024

CERN70: The dark side of the muon

Francis Farley, a British physicist, joined CERN in 1957. This marked the start of a long and remarkable career in experiments to measure the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon

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At CERN
14 March, 2024
At CERN
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14 March, 2024

Enabling open access to books

An expanded collaboration agreement between CERN and the OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) Foundation sees the Laboratory directly hosting the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books in its Data Centre

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Knowledge sharing
06 March, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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06 March, 2024

CERN detector could help to improve head tumour radiotherapy

Scientists are testing a new device to help target cancer cells more accurately in ion radiotherapy of head and neck tumours, which could help limit the treatment’s side effects. It includes Timepix3, a small particle detector developed at CERN

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Knowledge sharing
06 March, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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06 March, 2024

The Open Quantum Institute launches its pilot phase at CERN

The three-year pilot will build on the efforts to date to help unleash the full power of quantum computing for the benefit of all

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Computing
05 March, 2024

LHCb observes a new decay mode of the charmed beauty meson

The result has implications for future searches for rare beauty meson decays and for the interpretation of results from the Fermilab g-2 experiment

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Physics
04 March, 2024

CERN70: The heart of CERN’s accelerator chain

Günther Plass, former Director of Accelerators at CERN, joined the Magnets group at the Proton Synchrotron (PS) in 1956. Three years later, the machine went into service and became the most powerful accelerator in the world

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At CERN
29 February, 2024
At CERN
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29 February, 2024

ABB and CERN identify 17.4% energy-saving opportunity in the Laboratory’s cooling and ventilation motors

Through a strategic research partnership focused on CERN’s cooling and ventilation systems, energy efficiency audits have helped to identify a savings potential of 17.4% across a total of 800 motors

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Knowledge sharing
28 February, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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28 February, 2024

A new data centre at CERN

The new data centre complements the existing centre and will allow CERN to respond to the growing data-processing needs of the worldwide scientific community

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Computing
23 February, 2024
Computing
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23 February, 2024

From particle physics to medicine

Spend a fascinating evening discovering how the technologies of particle physics are driving progress in medicine

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At CERN
22 February, 2024
At CERN
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22 February, 2024