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September - December 2025
Promising results Promising results - A test run for the proposed MUonE experiment took place at CERN in the summer. The image shows a 20 mm thick graphite scattering target (left) and a silicon strip tracking module (right). Credit:…
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September - December 2025
At its 225th session on 12 December 2025, the CERN Council received the recommendations for the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP), marking a major milestone in the process of defining a common vision for the future of the…
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September - December 2025
Introduction Our recent beam test campaign for the ALICE Forward Calorimeter (FoCal) marked an important turning point for the project. After years of development toward a highly granular forward calorimeter, FoCal has now demonstrated the…
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September - December 2025
A major milestone has been reached at CERN’s Antimatter Factory. Using an innovative technique to cool positrons with laser-cooled beryllium ions, the ALPHA collaboration has increased the rate of antihydrogen production by a factor of eight. The…
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September - December 2025
Trapped ions: A quantum simulator at the University of Innsbruck. Credit: C Lackner/Innsbruck On 27–28 October 2025, CERN hosted the Symposium on Quantum Science and Technologies and High-Energy Physics (HEP), co-organised through the CERN Quantum…
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September - December 2025
After months of excitement and almost continuous, frenetic activity since August, AMBER’s vast experimental hall — more than 10 m high and stretching over 60 m from the upstream collimators to the far wall — now feels unusually quiet and solitary.…
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September - December 2025
The search for new physics at the LHC increasingly pushes beyond traditional signatures. Among the most intriguing possibilities are dark showers—complex cascades of particles emerging from dark-sector dynamics, capable of producing rich,…
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September - December 2025
As CERN prepares for HL-LHC, fine timing is becoming a critical factor for success, especially for detectors aiming to time-tag hits to a precision of tens of picoseconds. For decades, the good old Timing, Trigger, and Control (TTC) backbone has…
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September - December 2025
EP R&D WP4 is developing innovative mechanical, thermal, and automation solutions to meet the unprecedented demands of next-generation collider detectors. The next generation of detectors will face increasingly demanding challenges due to…
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September - December 2025
More than a decade after the discovery of the Higgs boson, attention is shifting from finding the Higgs to mapping its self-interactions. These self-couplings determine the shape of the Higgs potential, and with it the stability of our vacuum and…
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