For a few millionths of a second, shortly after the Big Bang, the universe was filled with an astonishingly hot, dense soup made of all kinds of particles moving at near light speed. This mixture was ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can achieve an energy that no other particle accelerators have reached before, but Nature routinely produces higher energies in cosmic-ray collisions. Concerns about ...

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This document describes the CERN Management’s vision for the period 2021–2025, its term of office. The objectives envisaged cover CERN’s scientific programme and other strategic activities that are ...

What is the Universe made of? Where did it come from, where is it going and why does it behave the way it does? These are some of the questions that CERN set out to address when a small number of ...

The training takes place in a supervised area, which means no access for pregnant individuals (and children below 16). Eating and drinking is prohibited. Additionally, you need to wear closed shoes ...

The event provides an important moment to review progress made in the 28 R&D projects currently being carried out across CERN through this unique public-private partnership. As well as looking back ...

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Radioactive isotopes are used in solid-state physics to investigate the crystallographic, electric, and magnetic properties of nanostructures, usually via ion implantation. The CERN Apparatus for ...

Researchers spend a significant fraction of their time on communication tasks, e.g. preparing journal papers, internal reports, theses, lectures, posters and research proposals. However they often ...