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The new generation of quadrupole magnets at the IT String test facility has reached its nominal current, validating key technologies for the High-Luminosity LHCThe test bench for the High-Luminosity LHC, the IT (Inner Triplet) String facility, has reached a major milestone. On 8 July, its new quadrupole magnets – known as the inner triplet magnets – successfully reached their nominal operating cur

Theorised in 1930 and discovered in 1956, the elusive neutrino still keeps many of its secrets, inspiring research efforts at CERN and around the worldSeventy years ago today, Clyde Cowan, Frederick Reines and their colleagues closed a quarter-century hunt with a paper in Science, having caught neutrinos streaming out of a nuclear reactor in South Carolina. The search had begun in December 1930, w

The CMS experiment uses its largest sample of beauty mesons to date to perform a high-precision test of subtle differences between matter and antimatterOne of the greatest mysteries in physics is why our Universe is made almost entirely of the normal matter that forms us and everything we touch. Every matter particle has a corresponding antiparticle with the same mass but the opposite charge and,

Last week’s coverage opened with an interview given by Enrica Porcari to IT for Business, in which she discussed the use of AI at CERN. On the same subject, SwissInfo published a piece featuring former CERN DG Fabiola Gianotti and Maurizio Pierini, following a media visit to CERN facilities in November 2025.The German TV ARD also released a short documentary about CERN, following a media visit in

COMMUNITY: Summer at CERN and beyond; Celebrating two milestones in neutrino physicsGROUPS: Grenoble visit to ILL & ESRF; Welcome our new Southern Sweden alumni groupFROM CERN: Discover what Long Shutdown 3 means for CERN's futureAND FINALLY: Welcome to the dark web from CERN CourierCOMMUNITYSUMMER AT CERN... AND BEYONDEvery summer, hundreds of students arrive at CERN to begin a journey that often

July marks the anniversaries of two important milestones in particle physics: the publication in July 1956 of the first conclusive experimental detection of the neutrino, and the announcement in July 2000 of the first direct observation of the tau neutrino. These two particles also lend their names to badges in CERN Alumni's award-winning CAN-doers engagement programme.The neutrino was first propo

THIS WEEK’S DIGEST AT A GLANCECOMMUNITY: Meet our July CAN-doers of the Month; A Lawyer Amongst Physicists — Lorenz Stampfli's CERN storyCONNECT: Possible Fermilab alumni lunch with Arnaud Marsollier; FCC public debate webinarFROM CERN: CERN Science Gateway welcomes its millionth visitorAND FINALLY: Physics with Dad Jokes from CERN CourierCOMMUNITYMEET OUR JULY 2026 CAN-DOERS OF THE MONTHEvery con

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

At CERN: Staff 1982 - 2013Now: RetiredWhen Lorenz Stampfli first arrived at CERN in 1982 as a young lawyer, surrounded by engineers and physicists, he found himself in a world far removed from the one he had imagined during his studies in law and international relations.“Normally, when you speak about CERN, you don’t think about law,” he says with a smile. “You think about science.”Born and raised

Please find below the media monitoring report covering the period from 29 June to 5 July 2026. These press cuttings have been selected from 2261 results identified by our media monitoring system. A report on CERN was broadcast on TF1's weekend evening news. The piece was produced following a media visit by the TF1 crew to CERN in January and offered an insight into the scale of Laboratory's infras

COMMUNITY: CERN Alumni Engagement Programme wins CASE Silver Award; CERN Alumni NYC & Flatiron Institute meetup highlightsGROUPS: AI for Science NewsletterFROM CERN: LHC enters Long Shutdown 3; new insights from space and atmospheric physics experimentsCOMMUNITYCERN ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMME WINS CASE SILVER AWARDThe CERN Office for Alumni Relations has been awarded a CASE Circle of Excellence S

Please find below the media monitoring report covering the period from 22 to 28 June 2026. These press cuttings have been selected from 1287 results identified by our media monitoring system.Last Friday, 26 June, the Press Office organised a media visit together with the HL-LHC, ATLAS and CMS teams. Several Geneva-based journalists and news agencies attended, and in the days following the visit, H

Did you know that one of the benefits of being a member of the CERN Alumni Network is the possibility to come back on site?Check out the next "Look Who We Bumped Into" video to hear what Thorsten and Jennifer Boeck have to say about their time at CERN, where they met, and their subsequent careers as an engineering manager and a teacher.

Please find below the media monitoring report for the period 15–21 June 2026. These press cuttings have been selected from the results identified by our media monitoring system. Last week’s coverage opened with several articles reflecting on the legacy of Belgian physicist François Englert, co-recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for the theoretical work that led to the discovery of the Hi

THIS WEEK’S DIGEST AT A GLANCECOMMUNITY: Celebrate 9 years of the CERN Alumni Network with a special HiLumi LHC Alumni Day event; Timepix@school call for proposals; From HiLumi to Alumni spotlight seriesGROUPS: New York CERN Alumni x Flatiron Institute Meetup; Munich Hiking TripFROM CERN: The LHC enters its HiLumi era; Arts at CERN announces the 2026 Connect India artistsCOMMUNITYWORLD CERN ALUMNI

The LHCb Collaboration has found a new particle consisting of one strange quark and two charm quarks. With this finding, the Collaboration has discovered the final member of a family of doubly charmed baryons – particles made up of two charm quarks and one other quark – and closes a chapter of a story that stretches back more than sixty years. Quarks are basic building blocks of matter. There are

Swiss-based artist Marie Matusz and Indian artist Moonis Ahmad Shah have been selected for the latest edition of the Connect India dual residencyLaunched in 2021 by Arts at CERN and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Connect has established itself as a key platform for artistic experimentation in connection with fundamental science. The programme continues its mission of fostering meaningful dia

After 12 years in operation, a record amount of data and thousands of scientific results, the LHC is taking a break. It will be transformed into the HiLumi LHC, a better-performing machineWritten by Corinne Pralavorio In the early hours of Sunday, 14 June, the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) had their last hurrah. In the control rooms of ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – the four major e

Please find below the media monitoring report for the period 8–14 June 2026. These press cuttings have been selected from the 729 results identified by our media monitoring system.Last week’s coverage opened with an interview given by CERN Director-General to the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, subsequently republished by Research Professional News. In the interview, Mark Thomson expressed op

THIS WEEK’S DIGEST AT A GLANCECOMMUNITY: Alumni Day LinkedIn Broadcast from CERN's SM18 test hall; June CAN-doers of the MonthGROUPS: New York CERN Alumni x Flatiron Institute Meetup; Munich Hiking TripFROM CERN: AI tools for open science; ALICE explores beauty-quark production in new territoryIN MEMORIAM: Remembering Mick Storr AND FINALLY: 5 Mistakes That Taught Me More Than My PhD by alumna And