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April-June 2026
When we last wrote in these pages about Rucio, ATLAS had just passed the half-exabyte mark and the community counted around thirty organisations. Six years on, a threshold that was then a distant projection has been crossed: both ATLAS and CMS…
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April-June 2026
The ALICE detector is preparing a major upgrade to its Inner Tracking System (ITS) during LHC long shutdown 3 (2026-2030). This upgrade, called ITS3, will replace the three innermost tracking layers with three layers of cylindrical, 50 µm thick, 27…
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April-June 2026
In March of 2026, experts from ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb gathered at CERN for a dedicated workshop on Data Quality Monitoring (DQM), bringing together developers, coordinators and detector specialists to discuss how the LHC experiments monitor the…
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April-June 2026
A reconstructed event of particles in the ALICE TPC, with data taken with the neural network cluster finding algorithm. Pink dots are reconstructed clusters. AI applications have rapidly expanded in everyday life, and ALICE, among other high-…
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April-June 2026
Completing the Higgs boson’s profile requires probing some of its rarest decay modes. Among the few still awaiting observation is the decay into a Z boson and a photon (H → Zγ), which occurs in only about one out of every ten thousand Higgs boson…
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April-June 2026
The FASER experiment has presented a series of new results that highlight the growing breadth of its physics programme at the LHC. These include a search for dark photons with the main FASER detector, a first search for neutrino-induced charm…
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April-June 2026
On 29 April 2026, colleagues from across CERN’s Experimental Physics Department gathered for the annual meeting dedicated to the strategic EP R&D programme on technologies for future experiments. The programme offered a broad update on progress…
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January 2026 - March 2026
High Energy Physics (HEP) and Machine Learning (ML/AI) are uniquely aligned: The data recorded by particle physics experiments are so rich, heterogeneous and complicated that scientists crucially depend on advanced pattern recognition in order to…
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January 2026 - March 2026
Understanding the nuclear structure of atomic nuclei away from the valley of stability remains one of the central challenges of nuclear physics and astrophysics. In particular, the dilute outer regions of neutron-rich nuclei can exhibit phenomena…
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January 2026 - March 2026
For decades, antimatter experiments have been bound to a single place: the laboratory in which the particles are produced and trapped. At CERN’s Antimatter Factory, antiprotons are routinely produced, decelerated and confined in Penning traps,…
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