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Highlights from CERN in 2013

Higgs boson decays, a Nobel prize for Higgs and Englert and a huge Open Days event were among the big stories at CERN this year

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Accelerators
19 December, 2013
Accelerators
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19 December, 2013

CESAR: CERN’s first storage ring

Fifty years ago today, the first beam circulated in the small machine that set CERN on course to the Intersecting Storage Rings and the LHC

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At CERN
18 December, 2013
At CERN
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18 December, 2013

CERN accelerates Future Library initiative in Greece

Two days of virtual visits to CERN mark the launch of Media Labs in nine public libraries across Greece

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At CERN
16 December, 2013

CERN to admit Israel as first new Member State since 1999

CERN is set to admit Israel as the Organization’s 21st Member State

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At CERN
12 December, 2013

CERN DG gives input to UN sustainable development planning

CERN’s Director General Rolf Heuer is in New York today to give input to the United Nations’ sustainable development planning

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At CERN
09 December, 2013

Indonesia and Bangladesh strengthen ties with CERN

ALICE representatives signed an agreement with LIPI in Jakarta, and the Education Secretary for Bangladesh signed an Expression of Interest at CERN

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At CERN
06 December, 2013

Power napping for detectors

The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) study is looking at silicon capacitors to help with power pulsing

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Accelerators
06 December, 2013
Accelerators
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06 December, 2013

UNESCO awards Niels Bohr Gold Medal to CERN

At a ceremony today in Copenhagen, Denmark, CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer accepted the Niels Bohr Gold Medal on behalf of CERN

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At CERN
05 December, 2013
At CERN
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05 December, 2013

Open Access publishing initiative to start in 2014

CERN today confirms that the Open Access publishing initiative SCOAP<sup>3</sup> will start on 1 January 2014

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Computing
05 December, 2013

CMS presents evidence for Higgs decays to fermions

The CMS collaboration have measured the decay of the Higgs boson to pairs of bottom quarks and to pairs of tau leptons

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Experiments
03 December, 2013
Experiments
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03 December, 2013