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Breaking news: CERN researchers confirm existence of the Force
http://t.co/BPp2wV01dp
http://t.co/1TXkbUTdsm
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Bem-vindo
@gilbertogil
🎸
The Brazilian singer/songwriter, and former Minister of Culture (2003-2008), visited
#ELENA
at CERN and played his song Quanta - a song about “the art of creating knowledge, discovery and innovation” from the Grammy-winning album with the same name.
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What happens if you drop an anti-apple?
In a paper published today in
@Nature
, the ALPHA collaboration at CERN’s Antimatter Factory shows that, within the precision of their experiment, atoms of antihydrogen – a positron orbiting an antiproton – fall to Earth in the same way as
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It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Peter Higgs.
An iconic figure in modern science, Higgs postulated the existence of the eponymous Higgs boson in 1964. Its discovery at CERN in 2012 was the crowning achievement of the Standard Model of particle physics –
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#OnThisDay
thirty years ago, in 1993, CERN released the World Wide Web software to the public.
Proposed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the web was originally created to allow scientists and institutes from all over the globe who were working on CERN data to share information accurately
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Happy
#AntimatterDay
!⚪⚫
#OnThisDay
in 1928, Paul Dirac published a paper, which was key to proving the existence of
#antimatter
. He received the
@NobelPrize
in 1933.
🔗
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“A giant of our field has left us, but his immortal contributions will remain forever.”
CERN scientists pay tribute to Stephen Hawking:
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Live from CERN: Join us for the first collisions for physics at 13.6 TeV!
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Today, it is the
@UN
International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
To celebrate
#WomenInScience
, follow some of our scientists and engineers as they show you behind the scenes of the work they do at CERN.
For
#WomenInScienceDay
, meet Cristina, Nuclear and Chemical engineer.
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How time flies: it has been eight years since
@ATLASexperiment
and
@CMSexperiment
announced the discovery of the
#HiggsBoson
!
Happy Higgs discovery day!
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CERN pays tribute to Peter Higgs
Peter Higgs’ scientific legacy will extend far beyond the scope of current discoveries. The Higgs boson is linked to some of the most intriguing and crucial outstanding questions in fundamental physics. This still quite mysterious particle
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🎂🍾 Happy birthday proton!
100 years ago, this ubiquitous particle was discovered 🥳
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What is a period of restlessness for many of us can be turned into a time of reflection and learning from the safety of our homes. What better way to do that than with a healthy diet of physics-themed videos? 1/n
#StayAtHome
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Breaking news! The
@LHCbExperiment
has discovered the "Humpty Dumpty" particle, predicted by
@INFN_
theorists more than 40 years ago:
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Introducing NERDS
On the occasion of CERN’s 70th anniversary, the Organization will change its name to ‘Network of Experiments for Research and Development in Society (NERDS). The name change comes as a result of reflecting our new role in society and encapsulates the nature of
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This is a “mild-steel” vacuum chamber design for the Einstein Telescope.
The Einstein Telescope, a CERN-recognised experiment is designed to measure gravitational waves ten times more precisely than existing gravitational-wave detectors.
Gravitational waves allow us to piece
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🛠 Did you ever want to make your own particle detector?
Here is your chance! Build this low-cost open hardware project, investigate natural radioactivity around you and become a true citizen scientist:
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Today the
@LHCbExperiment
at CERN announced new results which, if confirmed, would suggest hints of a violation of the Standard Model of particle physics 😮
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International collaboration publishes concept design for a post-LHC future circular collider at CERN
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Today is
@UN
's
#WomenInScienceDay
. Join us in celebrating
#WomenInScience
throughout the day.
In this first video, meet CERN scientists Sara Vigo, Belen Ferrando, Sara Berrocal and Erika Lima who are in charge of the beam loss monitoring systems in the LHC tunnel.
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#2018inReview
with the first 3D colour X-ray of a human using CERN technology.
Full story:
#CERNKT
with
@MARSBioimaging
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Pentaquarks! The
@LHCbExperiment
at CERN discovers a new type of particle made up of 5 quarks
http://t.co/Fd9kYtda5b
http://t.co/h58ookZQeE
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Today, we take you on a virtual ride to our particle detector at the
@CMSExperiment
! 🎢
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) is a general-purpose detector that uses a huge solenoid magnet to bend the paths of particles from collisions in the
#LHC
. 🧲
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On this
#WorldQuantumDay
, we feature CERN theorist John Bell who, 60 years ago, formulated a theorem known as Bell's inequalities. It allowed
#quantum
entanglement to be tested, which is at the root of promising technologies including quantum computing and cryptography.
Bell’s
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Happy 65th Birthday CERN! 🎉
🧁 What better way to celebrate than with Standard Model?
(Cooking and image by
@PhysicsCakes
)
Find out more about the Standard Model of particle physics:
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Over eight years ago,
@ATLASexperiment
and
@CMSexperiment
announced the discovery of the
#HiggsBoson
at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
Our new video about the
#LHC
’s most famous discovery takes us back to the basics: to its role in the Standard Model of particle physics!
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#OnThisDay
29 years ago,
@timberners_lee
invented the World Wide Web at CERN:
#HappyBirthdayWWW
#WWW
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Happy International Women in Engineering Day!
Meet some of CERN's
#WomeninEngineering
#INWED18
#WomenInSTEM
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So much metal in one picture! 🤘
Kerry King,
@Slayer
guitarist and songwriter at the
@ATLASexperiment
this week 🎸
#CERN
#atlas
#specialguest
#slayer
#kerryking
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Happy
#MarieCurieDay2017
!
150 years ago today Marie Skłodowska-Curie was born.
Find out more:
#MarieCurie
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The “frost” on this piece of equipment is the parasitic metal deposit resulting from a current discharge of 200 kiloamps. Needless to say, this plasma lens electrode had seen better days before this mishap…
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👏 Congratulations to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for their
#NobelPrize
in Physics from everyone at
#CERN
!
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020
#NobelPrize
in Physics with one half to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.
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Congratulations to Weiss, Barish, Thorne and
@LIGO
@ego_virgo
Collaboration for the Physics
#NobelPrize
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#LHC10years
🎂 Ten years ago, on 10 September 2008, two yellow dots on a screen signalled the first time that protons had circulated CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (
#LHC
), marking the end of years of design and construction.
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#DidYouKnow
linear accelerators are at the very core of CERN's accelerator chain, as the main source for ion and proton beams?
🎁 As a treat for the holidays, you can now build your very own linear particle accelerator model!
Instructions:
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On 11 February, it is the
@UN
International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
To celebrate
#WomenInScience
, follow some of our scientists and engineers as they show you behind the scenes of the work they do at CERN.
Today, meet Elena, Electromechanical Engineer.
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👏 Congratulations to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi for their
#NobelPrize
in Physics from everyone at
#CERN
!
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2021
#NobelPrize
in Physics to Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.”
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Between the 1960s and the mid-1980s, dozens of women worked
#AtCERN
as “scanners”. Their job consisted in identifying the trajectories of the particles in the images taken inside the bubble chambers.
“Scanning” took place around the clock. The work was done manually, using a
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📸
#PhotoOfTheWeek
We thought it had been a while since we last treated you with a picture of the Large Hadron Collider! Did you know that scientists have to account for the phases of the Moon when adjusting the particle beam? 🌙
Find out how:
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🎉 CERN wishes you Happy New Year 2019!
2019 promises to be another brilliant year for CERN, marked by anniversaries of past achievements and preparations for the future.
#upgradingLHC
#Web30
#CERNOpenDays
#HiLumiLHC
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CMS releases
#HiggsBoson
discovery data to the public
The
@CMSExperiment
has recently released, in electronic format, the combination of the measurements that contributed to establishing the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.
This release coincides with the publication of
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🎉 CERN wishes you
#HappyNewYear
2020!
In 2020, CERN scientists, engineers and technicians will be building tomorrow, with major improvements to accelerators, detectors and computing.
#upgradingLHC
#10yearsofLHCphysics
#HiLumiLHC
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"Nothing else (anti)matters" - earlier this week, Kirk and Lars from
@Metallica
visited some emblematic places at
#CERN
: the
@ATLASexperiment
, the
#antimatter
factory and the CLOUD experiment.
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CERN congratulates the winners of the 2023
#NobelPrize
in Physics 👏
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023
#NobelPrize
in Physics to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”
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CERN Science Gateway opens today🎈
Here, you’ll find immersive exhibitions, hands-on educational activities, and the chance to engage with the discoveries, science, and technologies of CERN.
We’re excited to welcome you all.
#CERNScienceGateway
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👋 Today at 6a.m. protons said their goodbyes to the LHC during a last lap of the track. It was the LHC’s last proton run from now until 2021.
➡️ Full story:
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Here we see an antimatter trap. It traps the antiprotons produced by the Antiproton Decelerator (AD), which are necessary for studies of antimatter.
#AtCERN
, we have several experiments that study antimatter including AEgIS, ALPHA, ASACUSA, BASE, and GBAR.
This antimatter trap
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📣 Beam in the accelerator!
After over three years of intense upgrade work, we are
#restartingLHC
.
Two beams of
#protons
are now circulating in opposite directions around the Large Hadron Collider, expecting to reach the record energy of 13.6 TeV in the summer of 2022.
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💥 Our
#PhotoOfTheWeek
is the display of a collision event recorded by the detector
@ALICEexperiment
at the LHC. Looks messy, doesn’t it? Indeed, the number of particle tracks in the display is very high...
Find out more about ALICE:
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The
@LHCbExperiment
collaboration has observed a new pentaquark particle and has confirmed the pentaquark structure previously reported.
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We’re on the hunt, we’re after… supersymmetric dark matter 🎵
In a recent study of proton–proton collision data from Run 2 of the
#LHC
, the
@ATLASexperiment
provides the most comprehensive overview of its search for supersymmetric particles. The study gives us a better
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Today for
#LGBTSTEMDay
/
#LGBTQSTEMday
, we join friends around the world to celebrate the presence and important contributions of LGBTQ+ people across all STEM disciplines!
Find out more:
📸 by
@Claire_Lee
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Happy
#Higgs10
anniversary!
#OnThisDay
in 2012, the
@ATLASexperiment
and
@CMSexperiment
announced the discovery of the Higgs boson. Its existence confirms the existence of the “Higgs field”, which gives mass to elementary particles.
Find out more:
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Happy birthday World Wide Web!🖱
In March 1989, an unimaginably powerful tool was invented by British scientist
@timberners_lee
here at CERN. Find out how the web grew over the years to become what it is today:
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is officially entering a new stage.
Today, a ground-breaking ceremony at CERN celebrates the start of the civil-engineering work for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC): a new milestone in CERN’s history.
#HiLumiLHC
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🎂 Happy 50th birthday to the Internet, from the birthplace of the Web
#Internet50
#web30
50 years ago today, Professor Leonard Kleinrock and his team sent the first host-to-host message through the network we now know as the Internet.
Learn more about this historical moment. ➡
#Internet50
#UCLA100
#InternetDay
@UCLAengineering
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LHC accelerates its first “atoms”
For the very first time, operators injected not just atomic nuclei but lead atoms containing a single electron into the Large Hadron Collider:
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Early this morning, operators of the CERN Control Centre turned off the LHC, ending the very successful 2nd run of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator.
Scientists will now begin
#upgradingLHC
, CERN's accelerator complex and the experiments.
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A combination of theoretical calculations and information from astronomical observations indicates that massive neutron stars can contain cores filled with free quarks.
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Happy
#InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
! Meet our amazing
#WomenInScience
:
#WomenScienceDay
#WomenInSTEM
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#ThrowbackThursday
to a moment full of emotion for particle physics: the announcement of the discovery of the
#HiggsBoson
, 7 years ago, by
@ATLASexperiment
&
@CMSExperiment
.
Find out more about this massive game-changer in the minute world of particles:
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🎂Happy birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope, which turns 30 today!
#Hubble30
Hubble, like the LHC, is pushing the frontiers of knowledge. The LHC explores the infinitely small and Hubble the infinitely large, but both are becoming more intimately related as science advances🤝
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CERN! 🎂🥳
What better than a proton cake for CERN’s 67th birthday!
#PhotoOfTheWeek
This cake from the
@PhysicsCakes
includes gingerbread cookies for the two up quarks and one down quark plus colourful sea quarks & gluon icing.😋
🔗
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Not one, not two, but 12 billion collisions 🎆
During the recent five-week heavy-ion run of the
#LHC
– the first of
#LHCRun3
at the highest-ever energy – the
@ALICEexperiment
recorded about 12 billion lead–lead collisions.
This year’s collisions are 40 times greater than the
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CERN launches the White Rabbit Collaboration! ⏰
White Rabbit is an open-source timing technology developed at CERN, with applications far beyond particle physics, including use in the finance sector and more.
The White Rabbit Collaboration aims to provide dedicated support and
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6 years ago, CERN announced the first unequivocal evidence for the Force. Since then, we have been harnessing the Force to return reference books to their shelves and sometimes to reheat coffee at CERN.📚☕️
#ThrowbackThursday
#AprilFools
' or real? 😉:
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Antimatter at CERN: from science fiction to science facts
➡️
#DoctorWho
#antimatter
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On 11 February, we will celebrate the
#InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
.
If you are
#WomenInScience
, tweet your selfie, tag where you work and say what you do
#WomenScienceDay
#WomenInTech
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