# News

### Satellite premieres in CERN irradiation facility

CHARM, a unique facility at CERN to test electronics in complex radiation environments, has been used to test its first full space system: a micro-satellite called CELESTA, developed by CERN in collab...

### First beam at IOTA for accelerator research

In late August, a beam of electrons successfully circulated for the first time through a new particle accelerator at Fermilab in the US. The Integrable Optics Test Accelerator (IOTA), a 40 m-circumf...

### Beam tests bring ProtoDUNE to life

The world’s largest liquid-argon neutrino detector has recorded its first particle tracks in tests at CERN.

### LHCb discovers two new baryons

By studying new hadronic resonances and their excited states, light can be shed on the mechanisms governing the dynamics of the strong force.

### Gravitational hunt for extra dimensions

If extra dimensions are large, part of the gravitational field would “leak” into the extra dimensions and gravitational waves would be weaker than expected.

### AWAKE accelerates electrons in world first

The AWAKE experiment at CERN has passed an important milestone towards compact, high-energy accelerators for applications in future high-energy physics experiments. Reporting in Nature on 29 August, ...

### ALPHA takes antihydrogen to the next level

The collaboration has reported the first measurement of the Lyman-alpha transition.

### Europe calls for advanced detector and imaging ideas

The European Union (EU) has committed €17 million to help bring a total of 170 breakthrough detection and imaging ideas to market. Led by CERN and funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, the A...