News

News

The Large Hadron Collider: 10 years and counting

Ten years ago, protons circulated CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for the first time, marking the end of years of design and construction

News
Accelerators
10 September, 2018
Accelerators
News
10 September, 2018

ATTRACT initiative to fund detection and imaging innovation

CERN and other European organisations join forces to help fund 170 breakthrough detection and imaging ideas with market potential

News
Knowledge sharing
05 September, 2018
Knowledge sharing
News
05 September, 2018

Hunting for dark quarks

A search for dark quarks conducted by the CMS collaboration inches closer to the parent particles from which they may originate

News
Physics
31 August, 2018
Physics
News
31 August, 2018

AWAKE successfully accelerates electrons

Proton beams from the SPS at CERN were used to generate plasma waves upon which the electrons “surfed”

News
Experiments
29 August, 2018
Experiments
News
29 August, 2018

Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed

Six years after its discovery, the Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks.

Press release
Physics
28 August, 2018
Physics
Press release
28 August, 2018

Photowalk 2018: CERN winners join global competition

The three winning photographs from CERN’s Photowalk now join the Global Physics Photowalk. Vote for your favourite

News
At CERN
27 August, 2018

Taking the temperature of protoDUNE

Giant thermometer can measure the temperatures of liquid argon inside massive neutrino-detector prototype at 48 different depths

News
Experiments
24 August, 2018
Experiments
News
24 August, 2018

ALPHA experiment takes antimatter to a new level

The ALPHA collaboration has observed a new electronic transition in the antihydrogen atom

News
Physics
22 August, 2018

HIE-ISOLDE’s Phase 2 reaches completion

The HIE-ISOLDE project is on its way to providing radioactive nuclei at higher energies than before

News
Accelerators
21 August, 2018
Accelerators
News
21 August, 2018

New measurement of particle’s lifetime intrigues physicists

A new measurement by the LHCb collaboration of the lifetime of a particle known as the charmed omega is inconsistent with previous estimates

News
Physics
08 August, 2018