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AI enhances Higgs boson’s charm

The CMS collaboration presents a new search for the decay of a Higgs boson into charm quarks, bringing physicists closer to unravelling how this unique particle endows matter with mass

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Physics
19 May, 2025
Physics
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19 May, 2025

Ireland to become an Associate Member State of CERN

On 8 May 2025, CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Irish Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science James Lawless signed an agreement admitting Ireland as an Associate Member State of CERN

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At CERN
08 May, 2025
At CERN
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08 May, 2025

ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC

Near-miss collisions between high-energy lead nuclei at the LHC generate intense electromagnetic fields that can knock out protons and transform lead into fleeting quantities of gold nuclei

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Physics
08 May, 2025

European Strategy for Particle Physics: community input received

Substantial contributions to the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics set the stage for discussions that will define the next flagship collider at CERN

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At CERN
17 April, 2025
At CERN
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17 April, 2025

ATLAS gets under the hood of the Higgs mechanism

The detection of longitudinally polarised W boson production at the Large Hadron Collider is an important step towards understanding how the primordial electroweak symmetry broke, giving rise to the masses of elementary particles

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Physics
10 April, 2025

The LHC experiment collaborations at CERN receive Breakthrough Prize

The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb collaborations during a ceremony held in Los Angeles on 5 April

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Knowledge sharing
07 April, 2025
Knowledge sharing
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07 April, 2025

CERN releases report on the feasibility of a possible Future Circular Collider

Released today, a report of a study investigating the project’s feasibility will serve as input for the European Strategy for Particle Physics and be assessed by the CERN Council in the coming months

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Accelerators
31 March, 2025

Symmetry between up and down quarks is more broken than expected

Surprising results from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN show that this so-called isospin asymmetry could point to gaps in physicists’ understanding of how quarks and gluons combine

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Physics
28 March, 2025

A new piece in the matter–antimatter puzzle

The LHCb experiment at CERN has revealed a fundamental asymmetry in the behaviour of particles called baryons

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Physics
25 March, 2025
Physics
Press release
25 March, 2025

A bestiary of exotic hadrons

The LHC is engaged in a complex quest to understand the exotic offspring of one of the fundamental forces of nature

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Physics
20 February, 2025
Physics
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20 February, 2025