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  • 3 weeks ago | home.cern | Ana M. Lopes

    The LHCb experiment has taken a leap in precision physics at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In a new paper submitted to Physical Review Letters, the LHCb collaboration reports the first dedicated measurement of the Z boson mass at the LHC, using data from high-energy collisions between protons recorded in 2016 during the collider’s second run. The Z boson is a massive, electrically neutral particle that mediates the weak nuclear force – one of nature’s fundamental forces.

  • 1 month ago | home.cern

    Have you ever wondered what it would be like to build a brand new world on an exoplanet? Students have the opportunity to do exactly that with IdeaSquare Planet (i2Planet), a novel teaching methodology designed to encourage creativity and foster the development of systems. IdeaSquare, the innovation space at CERN, has developed the i2Planet programme in connection with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It starts off with students partaking in a scenario in which humans have to establish their existence on a new “planet Y”. The students, who have been split into interdisciplinary teams, have to solve specific challenges for their settlements. The second half of the programme brings them back to our home planet, where the teams apply their ideas to a real-world context, focusing on current challenges, such as droughts and accessible healthcare. The goal is purely educational: preparing students for their future roles as changemakers. Through the programme, the students are equipped with the skills to tackle complex challenges under high uncertainty, make informed decisions and assumptions and develop fast and complex decision-making skills. With 255 students having taken part in 13 pilot programmes over the last two years, i2Planet is now a flagship programme at IdeaSquare. In this period, students were able to come up with innovative ideas to address current challenges. For example, an interdisciplinary team made up of engineers, lawyers, designers, physicists, business managers and many others had an innovative idea to tackle plastic pollution: cultivating plastic-eating bacteria to get rid of plastic waste. During the pilot programme, sustainability was not the only issue considered by the students who took part. Other teams had original proposals on how to deal with law enforcement and how to provide clean water, preventing droughts by humidifying the ecosystem using lianas. I2Planet is open to universities across Europe and beyond and is designed for students at master’s level. If you are an educator interested in participating in the programme, please contact [email protected].

  • 2 months ago | home.cern | Naomi Dinmore

    Quantum entanglement is a fascinating phenomenon where two particles’ states are tied to each other, no matter how far apart the particles are. In 2022, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for groundbreaking experiments involving entangled photons. These experiments confirmed the predictions for the manifestation of entanglement that had been made by the late CERN theorist John Bell.

  • Mar 28, 2025 | home.cern | Alex Epshtein

    In late 2023, Wojciech Brylinski was analysing data from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN for his thesis when he noticed an unexpected anomaly – a strikingly large imbalance between charged and neutral kaons in argon–scandium collisions. He found that, instead of being produced in roughly equal numbers, charged kaons were produced 18.4% more often than neutral kaons.

  • Feb 5, 2025 | home.cern

    During the inauguration of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology on 4 February, Simona-Mirela Miculescu, President of the 42nd session of the General Conference of UNESCO, mentioned CERN in her opening remarks as an example of science diplomacy and international collaboration. (Image: Alexia Yiannouli/CERN) The United Nations has declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ). Kicking off about 100 planned events worldwide was an opening ceremony on 4 February at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Enrica Porcari, Head of CERN’s Information Technology department, attended the opening ceremony: “What matters is how much the planned initiatives will move the needle towards a broader public awareness about the profound implications that quantum science and technology already have and, most importantly, will soon have on society.” The CERN-based Open Quantum Institute (OQI) is a participating partner in the IYQ and a leading project coordinator for key events around Geneva throughout the year. Quantum is also the central theme for CERN’s 2025 public events season in CERN Science Gateway, supported by the CERN & Society Foundation. The public events season begins with De Temps en Temps on 11 February, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Physicist Yasmine Amhis from the LHCb experiment and the DoniSSi string quartet invite you to explore the mysteries of time in all its facets. Find out more and register here: https://indico.cern.ch/e/detempsentemps and discover the full programme here: https://visit.cern/events.