CERN’s computing infrastructure is vast and heterogeneous, dynamic and complex. Keeping it secure is a marathon – trying to stay ahead of new deployments in order to guarantee decent protection, but ...

From 10 to 14 February, 76 ambassadors from CERN, the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and the Annecy Particle Physics Laboratory (LAPP) visited ...

What do rope winding and giant pasta shapes have to do with particle physics? The answer is a new superconducting magnet ...

Vaccination remains one of the most effective tools in public health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), every year vaccination helps prevent between 3.5 and 5 million deaths from ...

CERN Science Gateway has welcomed its 500 000th visitor, just 16 months after it opened to the public. Since October 2023, ...

Panel including representatives of permanent missions in Geneva (Italy, Mexico, Kenya, Vanuatu, Slovenia, India and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) exploring the key themes of quantum science and ...

An optical fibre link to the ALPHA experiment at CERN’s Antimatter Factory will assist in precise measurements of the properties of antihydrogen. (Image: CERN) The Standard Model of particle physics ...

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Live Webcast - All CERN staff and Users are welcome to attend the Open Session. The CLOSED Session will take place on Wednesday afternoon and on Thursday morning.

The “Standard Model” of particle physics is a set of equations that describes accurately how a small number of fundamental particles interact, and how they form visible matter. But we know that this ...

In 1928 the physicist Paul Dirac proposed that every particle of matter should have an antimatter counterpart. But shortly after the big bang, most of the antimatter disappeared, leaving behind the ...

Particle physicist, Eckhard Elsen (born in 1955, German) held many committee positions, including chairing the LHC experiments committee from 2011-2014. Eckhard Elsen - Director for Research and ...