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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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September - December 2025
How are the heaviest elements in the Universe formed? Looking at the periodic table, we know where the lightest elements come from. Hydrogen and helium were forged in the primordial nucleosynthesis that took place just moments after the Big Bang.…
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September - December 2025
Participants of the 2nd Next Generation Triggers Technical Workshop at the Globe of Science and Innovation. Picture: Mariana Velho From 19 to 21 November 2025, the Next Generation Triggers (NGT) project held its 2nd Technical Workshop at CERN’s…
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