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European Strategy update reaches key milestone
European Strategy update reaches key milestone 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 field. The recommendations will now be reviewed
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Physics Briefing Book Released: A Key Step Toward the 2026 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics
Physics Briefing Book Released: A Key Step Toward the 2026 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics The Physics Briefing Book, a cornerstone document guiding the 2026 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP), has been released by the Physics Preparatory Group (PPG) and is now available online. π Read the Physics
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EDIT Instrumentation Schools: Preparing the Next Generation of Detector Experts
EDIT Instrumentation Schools: Preparing the Next Generation of Detector Experts The Excellence in Detector and Instrumentation Technologies (EDIT) Schools are an established series of international training events dedicated to young researchers β graduate students and early-career postdocs β who want to deepen their knowledge of detector technologies and instrumentation for particle physics. Rotating between Europe,
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How CMS records all 40 million events per second
How CMS records all 40 million events per second Traditional data taking workflows at the LHC experiments rely on a filtering step β called Level-1 trigger β that reduces the amount of data to a manageable level. The Level-1 trigger is implemented in hardware, takes only a few microseconds, and gets rid of more than
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CMS Launches New Monthly Newsletter: Le Point Cinq
CMS Launches New Monthly Newsletter: Le Point Cinq The CMS collaboration is excited to announce the launch of its new monthly newsletter, "Le Point Cinq." This fresh communication channel will provide regular updates on CMS physics highlights, the progress of upgrade projects, and essential collaboration news. Following a successful internal trial over the past couple
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CERN’s BASE-STEP: A Leap Forward in Antimatter Transport
CERN's BASE-STEP: A Leap Forward in Antimatter Transport Antimatter, often portrayed as the elusive counterpart to ordinary matter, has long captivated the scientific community with its potential to unlock some of the universe's most profound mysteries. Yet, one of the most significant challenges in studying antimatter is its inherent instabilityβit annihilates upon contact with matter,
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DESI may have initiated a paradigm shift in cosmology
DESI may have initiated a paradigm shift in cosmology DESI has made the largest 3D map of our universe to date. Earth is at the center of this thin slice of the full map. In the magnified section, it is easy to see the underlying structure of matter in our universe. Claire Lamman/DESI collaboration. The
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Groundbreaking Observation of Quantum Entanglement in Top Quarks at the LHC
Groundbreaking Observation of Quantum Entanglement in Top Quarks at the LHC Researchers using the ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have achieved a breakthrough: the first observation of quantum entanglement in top quark pairs. This discovery, analyzing proton-proton collisions at incredibly high energies, marks a significant step forward in understanding the quantum world
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Champion in laser ionisation of unstable nuclei, justice and diversity at work, and climbing.
Champion in laser ionisation of unstable nuclei, justice and diversity at work, and climbing. On January 27th, at the Maison des Amis Montagnards in Geneva, friends, colleagues from CERN, and numerous ISOLDE users said the last goodbye to Bruce Marsh, who has been one of the main innovators of the laser ion sources at ISOLDE
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ATLAS and CMS unite to weigh in on the top quark
ATLAS and CMS unite to weigh in on the top quark The ATLAS and CMS Experiments at CERN have just released a new measurement of the mass of the top quark. The new result combines 15 previous measurements to give the most precise determination of the top-quark mass to date. Among the known fundamental particles