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Please find below the media monitoring report for the period 18–24 May 2026. These press cuttings have been selected from 1531 results identified by our media monitoring system.This week’s coverage was dominated by the decision to include the Future Circular Collider (FCC) in the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (ESPP), following the Council Session held in Budapest. The Hungar

Today, following more than two years of intense work of the European particle physics community under the auspices of the European Strategy Group, the CERN Council updated the European Strategy for Particle Physics [link to Resolution], which sets out an ambitious scientific vision for the field. The 2026 Strategy update offers a clear path to maintain European leadership in high-energy physics wh

The ATLAS Collaboration reports the first observation of the Bc*+ meson, an excited counterpart of a particle made up of a charm quark and a bottom antiquarkAt the Large Hadron Collider Physics conference this week, physicists from the ATLAS Collaboration reported the first observation of a new particle with properties consistent with the Bc*+ meson. This particle is an excited version of the Bc+

Alumni of the 1976 Summer Student Programme took a tour of the place where they first met 50 years agoOn 8 May 2026 a group of alumni of CERN’s Summer Student Programme reunited at the place where they first met 50 years ago.The group of four (left to right: Dave Eyre, Christian Gerke, Theo Oyevar and Claus Gössling) first came to CERN in 1976, when the Super Proton Synchrotron had just begun oper

THIS WEEK’S DIGEST AT A GLANCECOMMUNITY: Fourth Collisions reunion & call for talks submissionsCAREERS: From CERN to industry — Andrea Dotti shares what worked when transitioningGROUPS: Eindhoven, Vienna, Digital Memory, Space groupFCC: Dedicated group, news, and public eventsEVENTS: Knowledge Transfer Seminar — Precision Instrumentation and CERN’s Single Frequency Raman LaserFROM CERN: Summer stu

Moving from CERN to industry is a path many alumni have walked, but it's rarely straightforward. How do you make your research experience resonate with a recruiter? What belongs on your CV, and what doesn't? How do you prepare for interviews where no one has heard of ROOT or GEANT4?In this series, we ask alumni who have successfully made the transition to share what actually worked for them - prac

THIS WEEK’S DIGEST AT A GLANCECOMMUNITY: New FCC discussion group & May CAN-doers of the monthEVENTS: Virtual Company Showroom with Comet & CERN Alumni Budapest lunchGROUPS: Milan–Turin, Madrid, Vienna, Digital Memory, SustainabilityFROM CERN: Machine learning at the speed of collisionsCOMMUNITYFuture Circular Collider — Join the discussionAs the public consultation process for the Future Circular

Originally derived from a technology developed to explore the fundamental nature of the Universe, Medipix3 technology now powers a medical scanner that is on track to benefit an increased number of patients. MARS Bioimaging Ltd has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its portable photon-counting CT scanner for upper-limb imaging, allowing the system to ente

View the video hereWhen you want to capture an important moment in your life, you often take a photo. You could write down the key details instead – who you were with, where you were, the time of day – but this information might not be as impactful as a picture of the event. Physicists like to record particle collisions in a similar way using so-called “event displays”, but producing these is a li

In a major milestone for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) in the US, approximately 4500 tonnes of steel beams will soon be moved 1.5 km underground to build the structural elements of two enormous detectors. CERN is playing a key role in DUNE, an international endeavour to explore the mysterious properties of neutrinos.On 7 May, CERN Director-General Mark Thomson attended an event a

Smart and fast decision making is key when dealing with the onslaught of collisions at the LHC. At the High-Luminosity LHC (HiLumi LHC), the ATLAS and CMS experiments are expected to process detector data at rates corresponding to roughly a quarter of the 2025 global internet traffic. All in real time, as part of the first stages of event selection.Each second, billions of protons crash into one a

On 20 April 2026, another important milestone was reached for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HiLumi LHC) project, with the start of the electrical powering of the 95-metre-long test stand called the Inner Triplet String (IT String). Following its successful cryogenic cooldown to 1.9 K (‑271.3 °C) a few weeks ago, it will be powered up progressively, circuit by circuit, over the next fe

One of the biggest open questions in particle physics today is how the Higgs boson interacts with itself. This “self-coupling” could help explain the evolution of the early Universe and the mechanism that gives mass to elementary particles. To try to shed light on this fundamental interaction, the ATLAS Collaboration has recently studied one of the “golden” decay channels of a pair of Higgs bosons

Tens of kilometres above Earth’s surface, high-energy particles from outer space constantly strike the atmosphere, creating showers of energetic secondary particles that rain down from the sky. Approximately one of these particles passes through your head every second, but the “cosmic rays” that produce them are still not fully understood. In a recent paper , the ATLAS Collaboration describes how

GENEVA, UPTON, N.Y., and BATAVIA, Ill. — The Muon g-2 Collaborations at CERN — the European Organization for Nuclear Research — and two U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories — Brookhaven National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) — are the recipients of this year’s Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics . Over a period of more than 60 years, experiments a

The CMS Collaboration has probed deep inside quarks to search for potential building blocks within themAccording to our current understanding of the Universe, quarks are fundamental, point-like particles: basic building blocks that are not made up of smaller particles. A recent paper from the CMS Collaboration describes how it probed quarks to the scale of 10-20 metres to test this premise.At this

The LHC has successfully reached its nominal Run 3 performance, marking an important milestone in the 2026 physics programme. The intensity ramp-up phase was completed at the end of March, with the machine routinely operating at 1.8×10¹¹ protons per bunch in each beam. Following this achievement, the LHC entered a period of stable physics production for about a week, during which the machine deliv

What is it about?It’s been over a year since the CERN Alumni Engagement Programme was launched to recognise the many ways alumni contribute to the network. From mentoring and volunteering to attending events or simply keeping profiles up to date, these actions help keep the community active and useful for everyone.Learn more. Over the past year, the programme has steadily grown:6,061 badges awarde

Following the publication of the feasibility study for the Future Circular Collider (FCC), CERN has strengthened its dialogue and information activities with the local communities where the future FCC project could potentially be established. In both France and Switzerland, it is customary, before any investment decision is made concerning a major territorial infrastructure project - in the case o

Please find below the media monitoring report for the period 4–10 May 2026. These press cuttings have been selected from 1186 results identified by our media monitoring system.This week’s coverage included an article from Physics World about a major milestone for the DUNE Experiment in the United States, presented during an event attended by CERN Director General Mark Thomson, highlighting the glo