The 27-km LHC has eight surface points. Point 8, home of the LHCb experiment, is located close to the French town of ...

In particular, I will explain why black holes naively seem like fine-tuned systems, but they are ultimately not thanks to a accidental symmetry of General Relativity.

With accelerator operations for 2025 having ended on 8 December and the Linac4 source restarting already on 5 January, this ...

Scientists from all over the world are contributing to the first complete prototype of a wedge-shaped slice of the new CMS ...

Dive into CERN's accelerator complex with these 360° panoramic photos. You can take a virtual tour of the installed machines and equipment, visit different areas of ...

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The LHC will not generate black holes in the cosmological sense. However, some theories suggest that the formation of tiny 'quantum' black holes may be possible. The observation of such an event would ...

The Scientific Policy Committee evaluates the scientific merit of activities proposed by physicists and makes recommendations on CERN’s scientific programme. Its members are scientists elected by ...

Katarzyna Dyga of IT department measuring the TETRA network coverage and quality of voice calls in the AD during the end of year technical stop 2017/2018 assuring that the TETRA service is reliable.

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