Category: Blog
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Nobody knows what new physics will look like
For decades, we’ve searched for new physics signatures predicted by theorists. But what if we searched for events that simply look strange?
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How to catch subatomic particles wakeboarding in the universe’s most perfect liquid
The hottest, densest, and most perfect fluid in the universe has a behaviour surprisingly similar to water rippling around a speedboat.
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Out with the old
Data taking at the LHC recently ended, and we now begin a period of several years of upgrades to the detector and trigger system.
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NERD in progress: Mastering HLT Calibration at the NGT Hackathon
Hello, I’m Jessica Prendi and I’m a 25-year-old PhD student in the CERN Doctoral Programme from ETH Zürich. I started my PhD last October and my main project here is Optimal Calibration at the High-Level Trigger (HLT).
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“Tomorrow We Will Win”: Lessons from my first CERN Hackathon
These days, the mist and snow-covered mountains around Geneva are home for me. But I come from the Italian lowlands: Saletto, a small town in the countryside of Padova (the city where Galileo once taught), surrounded by farm fields and the Euganean hills.
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How I Shrunk the CMS Experiment — and Made It 3D-Printable
Turning 14,000 tons of detector into something you can hold in your hand.
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The LHC Open Data goes global: This time in Togo!
Before this year, the only things I knew about Togo was its general location (West Africa) and that it was the home country of Emmanual Adebeyor (the footballer).
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DARK WAVES — A CERN Fellowship Reflection
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“This is how you see the invisible” – A teen’s week at CMS
My name is Palma Bejarano, I’m 16 years old and I live in a small village in southern Spain, surrounded by the wonderful Los Alcornocales Natural Park: a place full of beauty, but with very few STEM opportunities.
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Winner of Department of Energy Early Career Grant – meet Kevin Pedro and his work on dark matter research
Kevin sits down to tell us about the work this new grant will allow him to investigate