After a brief introduction, students are instructed on how to build their own particle detector. Then they observe the tracks of particles made visible by the chamber. The session concludes with a ...

The performance of SiC radiation sensors were also evaluated across the temperature range of 25 °C to 450 °C to assess their functionality as detectors for fast ion losses in plasma diagnostics of ...

LHC Page 1 today at 05:55 am. (Image: CERN) A major event at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC): the accelerator has just collided beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first time. From 29 June ...

CERN is welcoming Slovenia as its 25th Member State, opening a new chapter in a partnership that stretches back three decades ...

Starting 1 July 2025, the Glide application will be officially decommissioned and replaced by Free2Move (F2M), a new mobile solution for booking vehicles from the CERN car-sharing fleet. This ...

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02), a particle physics detector installed on the International Space Station (ISS), is being prepared for a major upgrade that will allow physicists to dig deeper ...

This week, more than 600 scientists met in Venice, Italy, to debate the future direction of European particle physics in the global context. The Open Symposium is an important step in the ongoing ...

You may feel that quantum physics is far removed from your everyday life. But quantum physics could even shape our future.

The first proton–proton physics block of the 2025 LHC schedule concluded on 19 June at 6.00 a.m. It delivered 24 fb-1 of integrated luminosity to the ATLAS and CMS experiments, slightly below the ...

CERN At CERN, we probe the fundamental structure of particles that make up everything around us. We do so using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments. Know more ...

CERN Annual Report, which highlights CERN's main achievements and activities from last year, was presented to the CERN Council in their June meeting. You can read this, and previous, Annual ...