CMS releases #HiggsBoson discovery data to the public

The CMS Experiment CERN has recently released, in electronic format, the combination of the measurements that contributed to establishing the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.

This release coincides with the publication of

On this Earth Day, as we reflect on our responsibility to reduce plastics for the benefit of our society and all life on our planet, we are excited to introduce a new EU project called Edge SpAIce.

It applies CERN’s AI technology to demonstrate an innovative way of monitoring

Physicists: prepare for particles 🫡

Have you ever wondered how the ATLAS experiment prepares for the restart of the #LHC and the start of the data-taking season? Hear from @ATLASExperiment physicists Monica, Andrej, and Catrin about how they  got ready for chapter three of

Here we can see the assembly of a prototype target for CERN's Beam Dump Facility (BDF).

The 'target', first tested in 2018, is a 1.5-metre-thick block containing smaller metallic target blocks (picture 3) and their temperature and strain rate sensors, housed in an internal shell

The next-generation triggers for CERN detectors 💫

#DidYouKnow that #LHC experiments require high-performance event-selection systems – known as “triggers” – to filter the flow of data to manageable levels? The triggers pick collision events with distinguishing characteristics

Join us today at 19.30 CEST as we embark on a journey through the ‘The virtuous circle of knowledge and innovation’, the third in a series of events organised to celebrate CERN’s 70th anniversary: youtube.com/watch?v=cYvln3…

#Quantum innovations ⚛️

White Rabbit is a technology developed at CERN to synchronise devices in the accelerators down to sub-nanoseconds, and solve the challenge of establishing a common notion of time across a network.

Join us today 18 April, 19:30 CEST, to learn more about

#ThrowbackThursday to the control room of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), when the machine accelerated protons to 400 GeV for the first time. The first pulse at 400 GeV was recorded at 15.35 CET, on 17 June 1976.

48 years later, the proton beams in CERN’s accelerator complex

Detector technologies at #CERN 🔎

Particle detectors are used to record and visualise the plethora of particles produced at accelerators, but they can be used for applications beyond #physics .

Terapet is a #medtech #startup working to improve cancer treatment through proton

The virtuous circle of knowledge and innovation

Join accelerator physicist Alessandra Lombardi and other distinguished experts in academia and industry to learn more about the different applications of accelerator technology in the upcoming #CERN70 public event.

📅 Thursday 18

We’re here for chapter three of #LHC Run3

Today’s #PhotoOfTheWeek features the beautiful event displays of the first high-energy collisions recorded by the #LHC experiments in 2024.

On 5 April, the Large Hadron Collider accelerated and collided protons at the energy of 6.8 TeV

Here we see one of the ProtoDUNE particle detectors being filled with liquid argon, a process that takes about two months.

The liquid argon’s inert properties facilitate precise measurements, enhancing detection capabilities.

ProtoDUNE is a prototype of the Deep Underground

The asymmetry between matter and antimatter ⚪⚫

The LHCb Experiment recently presented the results of its new search for matter–antimatter asymmetry. Using the experiment’s data sets from the first and second runs of the #LHC , this search could help shed light on the mysterious

On this #WorldQuantumDay , we feature CERN theorist John Bell who, 60 years ago, formulated a theorem known as Bell's inequalities. It allowed #quantum entanglement to be tested, which is at the root of promising technologies including quantum computing and cryptography.

Bell’s

From particle physics to society

Join us for the third #CERN70 public event on 18 April, 19.30 CEST, to explore how scientific research fuels technological advancements, and how these technologies, in turn, open new avenues for further research development.

The event, moderated

The virtuous circle of knowledge and innovation

Join us on 18 April, 19:30 CEST, at CERN Science Gateway for a captivating evening, celebrating CERN’s 70th anniversary and discovering the dynamic relationship between particle physics research and technological innovation.

The @ATLASExperiment provides first measurement of the W-boson width at the #LHC
The measurement is the most precise yet made by a single experiment.

Find out more: home.cern/news/news/phys…

Between the 1960s and the mid-1980s, dozens of women worked #AtCERN as “scanners”. Their job consisted in identifying the trajectories of the particles in the images taken inside the bubble chambers.

“Scanning” took place around the clock. The work was done manually, using a