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July 2024 - September 2024
The AMBER spectrometer. Credit: K Bernhard-Novotny/A Sargsyan Despite our extensive knowledge, the universe remains mysterious in many ways. To this day, questions prevail about the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry. The exact sources of…
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July 2024 - September 2024
Exciting new opportunities for experiments with beta-decaying atomic nuclei have arisen at the ISOLDE facility with the recently developed new spectroscopy station called DeVITO [1]. The novelty of the setup lies in its integration with the VITO…
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July 2024 - September 2024
The ATLAS Collaboration has announced the release of 7 billion proton–proton collision events, alongside 2 billion simulated events, in the collaboration’s first release of open data for scientific research. The open data, available through CERN’s…
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July 2024 - September 2024
The development of next-generation neutrino experiments is underway at CERN, which will shed light on the nature of these elusive particles. While the development of far and near detectors is advancing well, novel identification techniques for…
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July 2024 - September 2024
On June 5, 2024, the CERN Research Board approved the DRD7 Collaboration for an initial three-year period. The collaboration will focus on developing and demonstrating new electronic hardware, firmware, and software concepts. Its main goal is to…
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July 2024 - September 2024
Researchers across all sciences use different types of tools: benches, centrifuges, lasers, weather balloons, seismographs, telescopes… you name it. At CERN, such a “hardware tool” is the LHC, together with all our other accelerator facilities,…
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April 2024 - June 2024
The ATLAS Collaboration at CERN,has been leading efforts to promote transparency and accessibility through its comprehensive open data initiatives. These efforts are designed to benefit researchers, educators, and the public, enhancing both…
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April 2024 - June 2024
Feebly Interacting Particles (FIPs) exist within both the Standard Model (SM) and in theories that extend beyond it. The FASER experiment [1] is the first of two experiments approved for data taking in Run 3 aiming to study these elusive particles.…
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April 2024 - June 2024
The ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is dedicated to studying heavy ion collisions, which recreate the hottest and densest matter ever observed in a lab – the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). By studying this exotic state of matter,…
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April 2024 - June 2024
The CMS experiment at CERN recently announced the release of 13 TeV proton-proton collision data from 2016. Over 70 TB of collision data and 830 TB of corresponding simulations are now available through the CERN Open Data Portal, marking a…
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