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The cosmic microwave background. Charm. The Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism. CP violation. Colour. 1964 was a remarkable year for invention and discovery . The story of quarkonia began one year earlier, ...

CERN’s new cultural season, Generation Higgs, is dedicated to youth as a driving force of curiosity, creativity and innovation. More specifically, the name is a poetic reference to students, doctoral ...

In July 2025, LHC injected for the first time Oxygen and Neon. Motivated by physics questions of the heavy-ion and cosmic-ray community, Oxygen-Oxygen, Neon-Neon and proton-Oxygen collisions took ...

Instrumentation to measure beam parameters is essential for delivering high-quality beams, not only in the LHC, but ...

The atomic nucleus was discovered over a century ago, yet many questions remain about the force that keeps its constituent protons and neutrons together and the way in which these particles pack ...

The CMS collaboration at CERN has observed an unexpected feature in data produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which could point to the existence of the smallest composite particle yet observed ...

Part twelve, the final article of the Work Well Feel Well series, looks at how committing to a change, however small, can make the difference ...

Whether you are a staff member, contractor, retiree, family member or a member of a CERN club, you hold a personal CERN access card. This card is your key to the Organization’s sites: on foot, by ...

September 2025 marks a first for CERN: our very own Mobility Week! For five days, synchronised with the European Commission’s campaign to raise awareness of sustainable urban mobility, the CERN ...

The High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider will increase the number of collisions to study fundamental components of matter in more detail. Overview of the High Luminosity LHC project. (Video: CERN) ...