CERN Alumni Weekly News | Caterina Vernieri, LHC Run 3, Higgs@10, CELESTA, Nuclear Physics conference in Poland
Caterina Vernieri shares the excitement of 4 July 2012, the day on which the landmark discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider was announced: https://alumni.cern/news/822370
“Walking into the auditorium, past the people rolling up their sleeping bags because they’d camped out overnight to ensure their places, we felt tremendous pressure along with great pride for what our community had managed to achieve over the decades.” Fabiola Gianotti and Joe Incandela think back to 2012 when “spring turned to summer”: https://home.cern/news/news/cern/higgs10-when-spring-2012-turned-summer
In an excerpt from his new book Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass, Frank Close recounts the story of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics: https://cerncourier.com/a/stepping-into-the-spotlight/
A round of applause broke out in the CERN Control Centre on 5 July at 4.47 p.m. CEST when the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detectors started recording high-energy collisions at the unprecedented energy of 13.6 TeV: https://home.cern/news/news/cern/third-run-large-hadron-collider-has-successfully-started
The excitement continues; on 13 July, the first CERN-driven space mission, CELESTA, will be launched from Europe’s Spaceport in collaboration with the University of Montpellier and the European Space Agency (ESA): https://home.web.cern.ch/news/announcement/cern/tune-launch-first-cern-driven-satellite
Finally, on behalf of our alumna Anna Zachara, we should like to inform you about an upcoming conference on Nuclear Physics taking place in Poland, Zakopane: https://zakopane2022.ifj.edu.pl/general-info/
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