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- This year’s memorable relay raceThis year’s memorable relay race More than 1000 runners, competing in 167 teams, took part in the CERN relay race on 30 May – a record level of participation for a highly memorable event! The race times ranged from 12 minutes and 15 seconds (the fourth best performance ever for the current route) to more than 23 minutes. The Nordic walking race attracted 26 participants. And the children from the Jardin des Particules joined in the fun! The CERN Alumni Network also took part in the event for the fourth year in a row by organising a virtual relay race, in which 14 teams of alumni from a total of 26 countries competed. The winners of the fancy dress competition, or how to push the relay race to the extreme. (Image: Running club) The photos and the results of the relay race (worth consulting for the team names alone!) are now online on the Running club’s website. The CERN relay race is organised every year by the CERN Running club and the Staff…
- Computer Security: Blind trust means money lostComputer Security: Blind trust means money lost We acknowledge that finding decent accommodation near CERN in the Geneva area or the Pays de Gex is difficult. Particularly difficult if you’re trying to organise such accommodation from abroad. Demand wildly exceeds supply. And where customers are in (desperate) need of supply, fraudsters are never far away. And indeed, this spring has seen two fraudulent transactions on the CERN Marketplace – your private flea market – a place to sell books, music or electronics, buy a new (used) car or find accommodation. In both cases, the fraudsters were advertising vacant apartments that they didn’t own. Using fake identities, hardly traceable email addresses and even, in one case, a stolen passport, they engaged with potentially interested tenants and provided details, photos and a location. A seemingly plausible story. But a fake one. And they pushed their victims into signing a lease and talked them into paying a deposit – which can easily be a…
- Future colliders and fusion reactorsFuture colliders and fusion reactors CERN's accelerator experts and EUROfusion's nuclear fusion specialists are now working jointly to develop innovative technologies for future colliders and nuclear fusion reactors, drawing on their respective unique competencies, in particular in the area of high field magnets. CERN Director for Accelerators and Technology, Mike Lamont, and EUROfusion Chair (presently Programme Manager), Ambrogio Fasoli, sign the first addendum to the framework agreement between CERN and EUROfusion in November 2023. (Image: CERN) The common projects are facilitated by the collaboration agreement that was signed in November 2023 by CERN and members of EUROfusion, the European consortium of fusion research laboratories carrying out a technical design of a fusion demonstration power plant (DEMO) to succeed ITER. Marking a milestone in scientific cooperation, this partnership paves the way for joint ventures in a broad spectrum of areas, encompassing research and deve…
- CERN’s artists on stage at the Victoria Hall as Fabiola Gianotti receives the 2024 prize from the “Fondation pour Genève”CERN’s artists on stage at the Victoria Hall as Fabiola Gianotti receives the 2024 prize from the “Fondation pour Genève” On 13 May 2024, members of CERN’s vibrant community attended, and some performed at, the prestigious Fondation pour Genève prize ceremony at Victoria Hall. Since 1978, the annual prize has honoured Geneva citizens and institutions that contribute to the international influence of the city in scientific, political, economic, cultural and humanitarian fields. CERN received it in 1999. For the 2024 prize, CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti was the recipient, honouring her exceptional commitment to the international influence of Geneva. Musical contributions from the CERN community were at the heart of this celebration, which began with the Canettes Blues Band performing ATLAS Boogie and ended with an excerpt of Niccolò Jommelli’s Requiem performed by the CERN Choir. Interspersed throughout the evening were various testimonials, including from CERN community member…
- HiLumi News: The HL-LHC’s cold powering system successfully passed the testsHiLumi News: The HL-LHC’s cold powering system successfully passed the tests The HL-LHC cold powering system undergoing tests in SM18. (Image: CERN) If you’re an avid follower of High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) news, you will no doubt already have heard about “the python”, the new superconducting link developed at CERN. It is a component of the new cold powering system that will power the HL-LHC inner triplet magnets, which will focus proton beams more tightly around the ATLAS and CMS collision points. This new system is packed with novel superconducting technologies: MgB2 superconducting cables, twisted together to form a compact bundle of about 9 centimetres in diameter, are inserted into a 22-centimetre-diameter flexible cryostat, with vacuum insulation and flowing helium gas. The MgB2 cables operate in the helium gas at temperatures from about 4.5 K (-268.7 °C) to 20 K (-253.2 °C). The REBCO high-temperature superconducting cables then transfer the current from 20 K…
- CERN and the US sign joint statement of intentCERN and the US sign joint statement of intent CERN Director-General, Fabiola Gianotti (right), and Principal Deputy US Chief Technology Officer, Deirdre Mulligan, of the White House Office of Science and Technology (left) at the signing ceremony. (Image: US Department of State, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs) CERN and the US government have released a joint statement concerning future planning for large research infrastructures, advanced scientific computing and open science. The Joint Statement of Intent was signed in Washington DC in April by CERN Director-General, Fabiola Gianotti, and Principal Deputy US Chief Technology Officer, Deirdre Mulligan, of the White House Office of Science and Technology (pictured). Acknowledging their longstanding partnership in nuclear and particle physics, CERN and the US intend to enhance collaboration in planning activities for large-scale, resource-intensive facilities with the goal of providing a susta…
- NA64 uses the high-energy SPS muon beam to search for dark matterNA64 uses the high-energy SPS muon beam to search for dark matter The NA64 experiment started operations at CERN’s SPS North Area in 2016. Its aim is to search for unknown particles from a hypothetical “dark sector”. For these searches, NA64 directs an electron beam onto a fixed target. Researchers then look for unknown dark sector particles produced by collisions between the beam’s electrons and the target’s atomic nuclei. Recently, the NA64 team started using a muon beam from the SPS to search for new particles that interact predominantly with muons – heavier versions of the electron – and could explain simultaneously the long-standing puzzle of the muon’s anomalous magnetic moment and the dark-matter (DM) problem. Their first results were accepted in the journal Physical Review Letters on 8 April. In this paper, the NA64 collaboration sets new limits on the available parameter space – the window where the researchers could find a hypothetical dark boson Z’ coupling only to muons a…
- CERN 70th anniversary exhibition at Geneva AirportCERN 70th anniversary exhibition at Geneva Airport To honour its 70 years of contributions to scientific knowledge, technological innovation and international collaboration, CERN has put together a rich and diverse programme, at CERN and across its Member States, Associate Member States and beyond. This programme includes exhibitions, the first of which can now be visited at Geneva Airport as part of a collaboration between the two organisations. Inaugurated on 2 May, the exhibition’s three components will occupy the wall leading to the security check before entering the departure lounge, the “Panorama” terrace and the international terminal until autumn 2024. Find out more on the “CERN and its neighbours” website. anschaef Wed, 05/15/2024 - 12:09 Byline Zoe Nikolaidou Publication Date Wed, 05/15/2024 - 12:07
