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- LHCb announces its 2024 collaboration prizesLHCb announces its 2024 collaboration prizes LHCb Thesis Award winners 2024 The 2024 LHCb Thesis Awards took place on 7 June 2024 at the University of Glasgow and recognise excellent PhD theses and additional work that have made an exceptional contribution to LHCb. This year’s winners are Shunan Zhang (Peking University, China), Alessandro Scarabotto (Sorbonne University, France) and Sara Celani (EPFL, Switzerland). Find out more about the LHCb Thesis Awards on the LHCb website. LHCb Technical Awards 2024 The 2024 LHCb Technical Awards were presented on 11 June at CERN and recognise outstanding contributions to R&D, construction, installation and operation. This year’s winners are Ulisses de Freitas Carneiro da Graca (CBPF), Didier Piedigrossi (CERN), Karol Hennessy (Liverpool), Martin Stefan Bieker (TU Dortmund) and Rosen Matev (CERN). For more details, visit the LHCb website. LHCb Early Career Scientist Awards 2024 The 2024 LHCb Early Career Scientist Award winners. Top row l…
- Join CERN’s 70th birthday celebrations on 17 September!Join CERN’s 70th birthday celebrations on 17 September! Click on the image to see a larger version of the poster As CERN’s 70th anniversary approaches, register now for the CERN70 Community Event, taking place on Tuesday, 17 September 2024 from 5.30 to 10 p.m. on the lawn in front of Restaurant 1 and its adjacent areas on the Meyrin site. WHO? This CERN70 Community Event is open to all CERN access card holders, including retirees, temporary personnel, contractors’ personnel and club members, who can register themselves and one guest. Members of the personnel, as well as Pension Fund beneficiaries, may in addition register family members who currently hold or are eligible for a CERN family access card (i.e. spouses, registered partners and dependent children). WHAT? Prepare for an evening of diverse entertainment featuring headline performances from John Helliwell, legendary saxophonist from Supertramp, the Carl Verheyen Band, led by one of the top guitarists in the world, and th…
- Accelerator Report: 10 000 LHC fills!Accelerator Report: 10 000 LHC fills! LHC fill 10 000 during stable collisions for the experiments.(Image: CERN) Each LHC machine cycle is assigned a “fill number” to identify it uniquely. This fill number goes up by one for every new LHC cycle. Fill number 1 was attributed to a machine test cycle back in 2007. When the first protons were injected into LHC ring 1 on the evening of 8 August 2008 (just after 8 p.m. on 08/08/08), the fill number had already increased to 818 as a result of the numerous dry tests performed in preparation for the first beams. On 13 August 2024, the LHC reached fill number 10 000. Unfortunately, fill 10 000 will not be remembered for any other records because it produced collisions for only 4 hours before a disturbance on the electrical network triggered the beam dump. Of those 10 000 fills, 1816 between May 2010 and today are associated with proton physics fills, i.e. when the mode is switched to stable beams for data taking by the LHC experiments. 223 o…
- Students pitch innovative ideas to tackle healthcare issues using particle accelerators in 10-day challengeStudents pitch innovative ideas to tackle healthcare issues using particle accelerators in 10-day challenge Students from around the world pitched four innovative ideas to use particle accelerators to solve some of the biggest health issues today as part of I.FAST’s third 10-day challenge-based innovation (CBI) event. The 24 students, divided into four teams, spent nine days learning about accelerators and preparing their projects at the European Scientific Institute (ESI) in Archamps, near Geneva, before presenting their projects at CERN on 1 August to a panel of esteemed judges, which included CERN’s Director for Accelerators and Technology Mike Lamont. The winning team, called X-ray Men, pitched a new approach to treating prosthesis-induced arthrofibrosis of the knee, a condition that can affect knee replacement patients and limits joint motion, sometimes leading to early arthritis, muscle weakness and pain. The team’s solution focused on inducing apoptosis – a process to eliminate…
- Computer Security: Audited for the betterComputer Security: Audited for the better Summer 2023 was an intense season for CERN computer security. In the context of a dedicated cybersecurity audit, as planned by the five-yearly internal audit plan, the Computer Security team, the IT department and affiliated groups, the Office of Data Privacy and the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Lead all participated in dozens of interviews conducted by an external company specialised in cybersecurity. Based on the CIS v8 standard, that external company compared CERN’s current computer security stance with international best practices. And CERN fared well. Based on that very comprehensive and thorough standard, the auditors issued 82 recommendations, 73 of which were accepted by the CERN Director-General: 15 were classified by the auditors as “major”, 34 “medium” and 24 “minor”, and none were deemed to be labelled “catastrophic”. And, actually, none of those recommendations came as a surprise. Some were already planned or on track…
- How can I use CERN IdeaSquare?How can I use CERN IdeaSquare? (Image: CERN) What is IdeaSquare and where can I find it? IdeaSquare is known as the innovation space at CERN. It offers a space where prototypes for CERN collaborations, KT projects at CERN and EU projects linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goals can be rapidly developed. It also hosts educational programmes for students, as well as workshops and hackathons, and offers unique meeting spaces. It is located on the Meyrin campus, just behind the Globe of Science and Innovation. All you need to enter is a CERN access card. CLEAR Prototyping with 3D printers at IdeaSquare in 2022 (Image: CERN) What prototyping facilities are available at IdeaSquare? The space houses a 3D-printing studio, a machine shop with laser cutters and a water jet, and an electrical workshop containing sensors, basic electrical components, soldering irons and an oscilloscope. You can use them for your work at CERN free of charge, unless you require large volumes of mater…
- Cosmic count exceeds expectationCosmic count exceeds expectation Cosmic rays confound scientists once again. The latest analysis of data collected by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on board the International Space Station has revealed a surprising surplus of cosmic rays made of deuterons – atomic nuclei made up of a proton and a neutron. The finding, described in a paper published in Physical Review Letters, adds to the growing list of unexpected results from the space-based detector, which was assembled at CERN and has detected more than 238 billion cosmic rays of particles of various kinds since it started taking data in 2011. Cosmic-ray particles fall into two main classes: primary and secondary. Primary cosmic rays are formed in cosmic sources such as supernova explosions, whereas secondary cosmic rays are produced in interactions between primary cosmic rays and the interstellar medium. In its latest study, the AMS collaboration investigated data from 21 million cosmic deuterons detected by AMS from May 2…
- Re-engineering radiotherapyRe-engineering radiotherapy The kick-off meeting of the ICEC–CERN project, STELLA, “Re-engineering the Next Generation of Medical Linear Accelerators for Use in Challenging Environments" was held at CERN from 29 to 30 May. (Image: CERN) The annual number of cancer cases is expected to rise by more than 40% by 2040, with the vast majority of the associated deaths expected to occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). More than 15,000 electron linear accelerators (linacs) are used worldwide to treat tumours with beams of X rays, but only a fraction of patients in LMICs who would benefit from radiotherapy treatment have access to it. In African countries, for example, there is approximately one radiotherapy device for every 3.5 million people, compared with one for every 80 000 to 100 000 people in the US and in many European countries. LMICs also face challenges such as the ageing of devices, delays in obtaining spare parts, frequent power shortages that affect the…
