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#CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's largest particle physics lab, home of the #LHC. French:

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Space Encounters at CERN 👨‍🚀👨‍🚀👩‍🚀 CERN welcomes

@astro_paolo

– who spent 313 days in orbit –

@astro_slawosz

@astro_meganne

, recently recruited to the

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astronaut class of 2022, for a tour of the #LHC and a live talk about #space. 🗓️ 16 Dec 11.00 CET 🔗webcast.web.cern.ch/event/i1231214

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Dec 15

Today’s #ThrowbackThursday shows the mirror wall of the COMPASS experiment at the Super Proton Synchrotron. The experiment seeks to understand how the property called spin arises in protons and neutrons, using a ring imaging Cherenkov detector. 🔗home.cern/science/experi

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Dec 14

STUDENTS: Here’s your chance to have a positive impact on the #environment!🍃 🇪🇺 If you study at a European university, this 10-day challenge is your chance to explore how accelerators can tackle environmental issues. Apply by 28 Feb 👉ifast-project.eu/news/announcem

Prof. Caterina Biscari will shine a spotlight on “ALBA and the science for sustainability" during next PHYSICS MATTERS event, planned Thurs. Dec. 15 at 16:00 CET LIVE from 🇪🇸! ✍️Register: tinyurl.com/vab753n 🔖Details: tinyurl.com/snjn6x9n

Something shimmering and white🌌 Today, CERN’s #PhotoOfTheWeek shows an artist's impression of the

@ALICEexperiment

's study of the transparency of the Milky Way to #antimatter, published this week in

@NaturePhysics

. 📸

@TU_Muenchen

#tumunich Learn more: home.cern/news/news/phys

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has released data from the LHC Run 1 to the public for the first time, allowing research to be conducted by anyone in the world. It comprises 200 terabytes containing information obtained from proton–proton collision events. 🔗 home.cern/news/news/know

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[Press Update] ALICE estimates how transparent the Milky Way is to antimatter Find out more: home.cern/news/news/phys

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And the winner is… #CERN, with the communication campaign “When the Large Hadron Collider went viral”!🎉#EEA2022 Congratulations to all winners and our fellow nominees in the category Science and Education: excellence-awards.com/best-of-2022/

Here we see artist Patricia Domínguez photographing the n_TOF experiment during a visit with Geneva-based artist Chloé Delarue & physicist Alberto Mengoni. The two artists were the recipients of the Simetría Award, a dual residency between #CERN and

@ESO

: arts.cern/article/winner

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A new detector in the CMS family… milliQan! This detector is specialised to look for milli-charged particles which leave no trace of their path on CMS and may provide a way for scientists to learn more about Dark Matter! 🔎Read more here: cms.cern/news/milliqan-

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Excellence in science communication💫 We’re excited to announce that #CERN has been shortlisted for an European Excellence Award in recognition for this year’s #Higgs10 #LHCRun3 campaign. #EEA2022

@EEA_Info

Join the award ceremony today at 18.00 CET excellence-awards.com

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Calling graduates to apply to CERN's Graduate Programmes: ✔️ CERNOrigin for early-career professionals ✔️ CERNQuest for project graduates ✔️ CERNResearchFellowship for postdoc graduates Learn more and apply today at lnkd.in/eUZTtduA CERN. Take part! #CERN

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Dec 8

📢Registration is now open for the next #CERNAcceleratorSchool For staff in laboratories, universities, and companies involved in producing radio-frequency equipment, the unique, two-week #CAS course will cover RF technology and practical work. 🔗indico.cern.ch/event/1212689

#ThrowbackThursday to a CERN electronics workshop in 1974 🔌 Today, the workshops offer design services, prototype board assembly and production of electronic circuit boards and modules. Electronics is one of the many

@CERN_JOBS

opportunities. Find here: careers.cern/alljobs

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Dec 8

Find out more in this LHC report:

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LHC Report: The switch was flipped, and the beams were dumped

On Monday, 28 November at 6 o’clock in the morning, the LHC Engineer in Charge flipped the switch and the last proton beams of 2022 made a final turn around the LHC before being discarded into the...

It’s on the right track 🏗️ Today’s #PhotoOfTheWeek takes you to the construction site of #CERNScienceGateway, CERN’s new education and outreach facility. It will host exhibitions, hands-on laboratories, an auditorium, shop & restaurant for visitors. sciencegateway.cern

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Dec 7

SCOAP3 has officially launched a new initiative to transition key monographs and textbooks relevant to high-energy #physics to #openaccess. The #oabooks are available through publisher websites and in a dedicated collection on the

@OAPENbooks

Library. 🔗scoap3.org/scoap3-launche

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Dec 7

CAST-CAPP inches closer to axion #DarkMatter. The CAPP axion haloscope at the CAST experiment has hunted for axions from the Milky Way’s “halo” of dark matter, and has narrowed down the theoretical space in which to look for these hypothetical particles.

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CAST-CAPP inches closer to axion dark matter

Hypothetical particles called axions could solve two enigmas at once. They could account for dark matter, the mysterious substance that is thought to make up most of the matter in the Universe, and...

The ATLAS Experiment at

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casts wide net in the search for new, high-mass particles! 🔎 Physicists performed an extensive search for these new particles, which are predicted by several #newphysics theories. Learn more in our new briefing ⤵️

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ATLAS casts wide net in search for new high-mass particles

Searching for the unknown characteristics of the Universe requires a bit of back-and-forth. Sometimes, experimental physicists drive the effort by discovering something that is not predicted by...

One week to apply to Connect India! 📢 Swiss and Indian artists (or permanent residents) are invited to submit a proposal for a fully-funded dual residency at

@CERN

and

@ictstifr

to develop artistic research in dialogue with scientific communities in Geneva and Bengaluru 🧵 ⤵️

Open Data for everyone! 🗃️ CMS Experiment is unique, sharing all its proton proton data from Run1 with the public! Don't forget that these data led CMS scientists to the discovery of the #Higgs boson 10 years ago! 🎉 Read more: cms.cern/news/cms-compl

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Dec 5

This is a high-temperature superconducting REBCO power transmission cable used at CERN, and a step towards future clean aviation. #CERN and

@Airbus

have partnered to assess the use of this technology for future zero-emission planes. Learn more: home.cern/news/news/know

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Dec 2

Pre-registrations are open for the 10th edition of Beamline for Schools. #BL4S If you dream of being a physicist, apply to this year's edition and get the chance to perform your own experiment at #CERN or

@desynews

. 🗓️ 6 Jan – 12 Apr 2023, 12.00 CET 🔗 cern.ch/BL4S

What do the quark-gluon plasma and a museum's gift shop have in common? The exit! We studied which path the quarks follow, and it seems that when they take a long way out, they lose more energy, just like museum visitors spend more money in the gift shop.cms.cern/news/exit-thro

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Dec 1

#ThrowbackThursday to… last week’s announcement of the agreement between CERN,

@CHUVLausanne

and THERYQ to develop the world’s first FLASH #radiotherapy device. 📸© Gabriel Monnet

[Press Update]

and

partnership on future clean aviation CERN and Airbus UpNext sign a collaboration agreement to assess the use of superconducting technologies for future zero-emission aeroplanes Find out more: home.cern/news/news/know #CERNimpact

CERN’s High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) rare-earth barium copper oxide (also referred to as REBCO) power transmission cable used to study the feasibility of superconductivity for aircraft. (Image: CERN)

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CERN joins the #AirbusSummit to announce a new partnership for disruptive technologies, today at 12.30 CET. ✈️ Stay tuned today to learn more about the partnership between #CERN and

@Airbus

. #CERNimpact #AcceleratingInnovation #CERNKT

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Oct 17

The #AirbusSummit is back! It's an ideal moment to take stock of progress against our ambition to lead the way in sustainable aerospace. What has been achieved? What are the challenges that still lie ahead?

Save the Date: Nov 30 - Dec 1.

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Take part in QUEST, our Experienced Project Graduates Programme, tailored for those who want to take their career a step further, working at CERN for a period of up to 3 years! To apply & learn more: careers.smartrecruiters.com/CERN/graduates Deadline: 23.1.2023 #CERNQuest #TakePart #CERNCareers

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Nov 30

Today’s #PhotoOfTheWeek takes us to the ‘Universe of Particles’ exhibition at CERN. The exhibition lets visitors discover the big, banging questions of contemporary #physics, currently being explored through the #LHC. 🔗visit.cern/globe

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Nov 29

A new #CERNSolvayEducation video is out! To learn about electromagnetic fields, how to control a beam of electrically charged particles and how to design a particle accelerator like the LHC, take a look at: cern.ch/proton #TeachingTuesday #CERNScienceGateway

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#DidYouKnow: during the YETS, proton beams are switched off, and the keys to the accelerator complex are handed back to CERN’s engineers for maintenance? #LHCdictionary The YETS is starting two weeks earlier, as part of CERN’s energy-saving measures. 🔗home.cern/news/news/cern

✅Collisions at the record energy of 13.6 TeV ✅Longest fill of the LHC to date, lasting 57.4 hours ✅Test collisions of lead nuclei at the record energy of 5.36 TeV ✅Record peak luminosity achieved at 2.5E34 ✅3200 billion collisions delivered to the experiments #LHCRun3

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The #LHC begins its hibernation season 💤 CERN’s year-end-technical stop (YETS) starts today, and it marked the end of the #LHCRun3 for the year. Here’s the full list of what we achieved during this run⬇️

Screenshot of LHC Page 1, showing the start of the Year End Technical Stop (YETS).

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Here we see a prototype of CLIC, a potential addition to CERN’s accelerator complex. CLIC is in a conceptual stage, but its technology is finding applications in #medtech & in the design of a radiotherapy facility proposed with

@CHUVLausanne

and THERYQ. 🔗home.cern/news/news/know

Views of Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) prototype, accelerating structures and components in the high-accelerating gradient test area. CERN and the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), in Switzerland, are collaborating to develop the conceptual design of an innovative radiotherapy facility, used for cancer treatment.

📸 by Julien Ordan & Samuel Joseph Hertzog

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[Press Update]

and THERYQ join forces for a world first in cancer radiotherapy. CERN, CHUV and THERYQ have signed an agreement for the development of a revolutionary FLASH radiotherapy device. Find out more: home.cern/news/news/know

The schematic shows the concept of a new revolutionary VHEE FLASH radiotherapy device (Image: CERN)

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Thank you to all the participants

Did you catch the #CERNSparks Public Talks last week?

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Nov 17

Join us for the second edition of Sparks! This year, the theme is Future Technology for Health twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1

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Nov 24

Today’s #ThrowbackThursday takes us to last week’s second edition of #CERNSparks. ❓What are the next challenges of basic research in #health? ❓Will health tech developments lead to a healthier society? These are just some of the questions discussed during last week's Forum.

#DidYouKnow that collisions of lead nuclei allow physicists to study specific phenomena such as the quark-gluon plasma, a state of matter that is thought to have existed during the very first moments of the Universe? #LHCdictionary Find out more: home.cern/news/news/expe

First lead-ion collisions✨ Last week, the LHC accelerated and collided test beams of lead nuclei at the record energy of 5.36 TeV, a first for #LHCRun3. The collisions provided the opportunity for the #LHC experiments to validate their new detectors and data-processing systems.

Event displays of the first Pb-Pb collision of Run3 taken on 18 November 2022.

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