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January 2026 - March 2026
From 26 to 30 January 2026, the Max-Planck Institute for Physics in Garching, near Munich, hosted the 9th FCC Physics Workshop, a major gathering of theorists and experimentalists advancing the physics case, solving the experimental challenges, and…
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January 2026 - March 2026
For decades, antimatter experiments have been bound to a single place: the laboratory in which the particles are produced and trapped. At CERN’s Antimatter Factory, antiprotons are routinely produced, decelerated and confined in Penning traps,…
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January 2026 - March 2026
An interactive version of the above event display can be found on this page. For more than a decade, particle-flow reconstruction has been at the core of CMS event interpretation. It was instrumental in the discovery of the Higgs…
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January 2026 - March 2026
Every aspect of our world – from atomic nuclei and molecular chemistry to biology and astrophysics – emerges from the interactions of particles so small they are considered point-like. While some particles, like the electron, were discovered over a…
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January 2026 - March 2026
After an eight-week journey, the first HGCAL absorber structure (CE-H1) was delivered to CERN and is ready to be assembled, just 100 metres above the location where the detector will eventually be installed. Seventeen enormous boxes were delivered…
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January 2026 - March 2026
Spin-polarised probes have been central to nuclear and particle physics since the discovery of parity violation by Chien-Shiung Wu in 1956, who detected asymmetric emission of β-radiation from low-temperature 60Co in a magnetic field. The…
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January 2026 - March 2026
The NA62 experiment at CERN has achieved a major milestone in flavour physics with the first observation of one of the rarest particle decays ever measured. The process — the decay of a positively charged kaon into a pion and a neutrino–antineutrino…
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January 2026 - March 2026
Understanding the nuclear structure of atomic nuclei away from the valley of stability remains one of the central challenges of nuclear physics and astrophysics. In particular, the dilute outer regions of neutron-rich nuclei can exhibit phenomena…
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January 2026 - March 2026
Light nuclei such as the deuteron are surprisingly fragile. A deuteron is bound by only a few mega-electronvolts, yet at the Large Hadron Collider it is produced in environments that are tens of trillions of degrees – about 100,000 times hotter than…
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