Simulations of lattice gauge theories such as QCD or QED on classical computers have been remarkably successful over the past decades. However, the conventional methods relying on Monte Carlo sampling ...

United by a shared vision, countries came together in Switzerland in the 1950s for science, but also for music. Whether you love it or loathe it, you can’t ignore the parallels that the Eurovision ...

Square Van Hove, formerly the Microcosm Garden, has been beautifully reintegrated into the heart of CERN’s campus as part of the Outdoor Spots project. (Image: CERN) “Outdoor Spots” is transforming ...

With the third long shutdown (LS3) fast approaching, we are entering an intense and complex phase of work. This period is ...

From 1 to 11 mai 2025, CERN participated for the second year in a row at the Haute-Savoie Mont-Blanc International Fair in La ...

One nice thing about the internet and the World Wide Web is their international nature, like CERN's international stance – ...

The reconfiguration of the cryogenic system, which is essential to provide the additional cryogenic capacity needed to run ...

Should a Higgs factory be a linear or circular electron–positron collider? Intriguingly, the key strategic technology may be the same in either case. Klystrons consume the majority of power at ...

Thanks to the involvement of many early-career researchers (ECRs) over the past few months, the organisers of the ECR white paper for the European Strategy for Particle Physics update (ESPPU) were ...

The discovery of gravitational waves by the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration in 2015 confirmed a century-old prediction of Einstein ...

The HEPiX forum brings together worldwide information technology staff, including system administrators, system engineers, and managers from High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics laboratories and ...

Welcome to the digital edition of the May/June 2025 issue of CERN Courier.