Europe’s foremost particle-physics laboratory, CERN was established near Geneva in 1954 to stop the brain drain to the US that had begun during the Second World War, and to provide a force for unity in post-war Europe. Alongside technological innovations such as the World Wide Web, its contributions to fundamental science include the discovery of the W and Z bosons, the determination of the number of light neutrino families and the discovery of direct CP violation. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider – the highest energy machine in the world – is in the middle of a programme of exploration that has already yielded the discovery of the Higgs boson.
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On 8 April, CERN unveiled plans for a major new facility for scientific education and outreach.
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Results from a new survey show the impact of working at CERN on an individual’s career.
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The seed that led CERN to relinquish ownership of the web in 1993 was planted when the Organization formally came into being.
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Linac2, the machine that feeds CERN’s accelerator complex with protons, has entered a well-deserved retirement after 40 years of service.
Read article 'CERN thinks bigger'
The Future Circular Collider study would see a 100 km-circumference tunnel built at CERN to host post-LHC colliders.
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Explore CERN’s employer profile and see the latest vacancies
Read article 'An obligation to engage'
As the CERN & Society Foundation turns 10, founding Director-General Rolf-Dieter Heuer argues that physicists have a duty to promote curiosity and evidence-based critical thinking.
Read article 'Dignitaries mark CERN’s 70th anniversary'
On 1 October a high-level ceremony at CERN marked 70 years of science, innovation and collaboration.
Read article 'CERN to insource beam-pipe production'
The laboratory will acquire unique expertise useful to the HL-LHC experiments, future projects and other accelerators around the world.
Read article 'A decider for CERN’s next collider'
The third update of the European strategy for particle physics is underway.
Read article 'Watch out for hybrid pixels'
Hybrid pixel detectors are changing the face of societal applications such as X-ray imaging.
Read article 'Alec Geoffrey Hester 1928–2024'
Alec Hester was the editor of CERN Courier magazine from 1961 to 1965.
Read article 'Electroweak precision at the LHC'
Geared for discovery more so than delicacy, the LHC is defying expectations by rivalling lepton colliders for precision.
Read article 'Homing in on the Higgs self-interaction'
The simplest possible interaction in nature is when three identical particle lines meet at a single vertex.
Read article 'Six rare decays at the energy frontier'
Andrzej Buras explains how two rare kaon decays and four rare B-meson decays will soon probe for new physics beyond the reach of direct searches at colliders.
Read article 'How to democratise radiation therapy'
Manjit Dosanjh and Steinar Stapnes tell the Courier about the need to disrupt the market for a technology that is indispensable when treating cancer.
Read article 'ATLAS turbocharges event simulation'
As the harvest of data from the LHC experiments continues to increase, so does the required number of simulated collisions.
Read article 'How to surf to high energies'
The AWAKE experiment is adapting plasma-wakefield acceleration for applications in particle physics.