What do rope winding and giant pasta shapes have to do with particle physics? The answer is a new superconducting magnet prototype under development at CERN, lovingly named Fusillo because of its ...

A slender glass fibre no thicker than a human hair placed across a particle beam could improve accelerator monitoring. A team is testing the use of hollow-core optical fibres to measure the profile ...

In 2011, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) was installed on the International Space Station (ISS). Since then, it has recorded more than 200 billion cosmic ray events and, while most of their ...

They won’t pinch you and you won’t find them on the beach. The name of the new radio-frequency crab cavities has nothing to do with their appearance and is merely illustrative of the effect they will ...

Following the international open call launched in November 2025, Arts at CERN and the Nobel Prize Museum are pleased to announce that Lithuanian artist Emilija Škarnulytė has been selected as the ...

To learn about this, researchers are going to be looking for Higgs boson interactions with second generation matter particles, the muon and the charm quark, and also looking for extra Higgs-like ...

LEIR takes long pulses of lead ions from Linac 3 and transforms them into the short, dense bunches suitable for injection to the Large Hadron Collider The Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR) receives long ...

To unravel some of the mysteries surrounding neutrinos, CERN sent a beam through 732 kilometres of solid rock to the CNGS project in Italy The CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso (CNGS) project aimed to ...

It takes a lot of electricity to power the world’s largest scientific experiment – but superconducting wires can help keep those energy costs down At peak consumption, usually from May to mid-December ...

The accelerator complex at CERN is a succession of machines that accelerate particles to increasingly higher energies. Each machine boosts the energy of a beam of particles before ...

The Higgs boson was discovered, almost 50 years after first being proposed, by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN in 2012. But why did it take so long to find it? With a mass of more than 120 ...

The Library is at the heart of CERN and plays a key role in supporting scientific research in the Organization. It offers a range of services, including a quiet space to study and think. Since its ...