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The European Organization for Nuclear Research (French: Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire), known as CERN; derived from the name Conseil européen pour la recherche nucléaire), is a European research organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, the organization is based in a northwest suburb of Geneva on the Franco–Swiss border and has 23 member states. Israel is the only non-European country granted full membership. CERN is an official United Nations Observer. The acronym CERN is also used to refer to the laboratory, which in 2016 had 2,500 scientific, technical, and administrative staff members, and hosted about 12,000 users. In the same year, CERN generated 49 petabytes of data. CERN's main function is to provide the particle accelerators and other infrastructure needed for high-energy physics research – as a result, numerous experiments have been constructed at CERN through international collaborations. The main site at Meyrin hosts a large computing facility, which is primarily used to store and analyse data from experiments, as well as simulate events. Researchers need remote access to these facilities, so the lab has historically been a major wide area network hub. CERN is also the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

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News  Heavy ions return in style

Heavy ions return in style

“Following the successful repair in August of a small leak in the insulation vacuum of the LHC inner triplet assembly near Point 8, beams returned on 30 August for the first long heavy-ion run of Run 3. Stable beams were …

News  SHINE shines a light on neutrino beams

SHINE shines a light on neutrino beams

“The NA61 experiment at CERN, also known as SHINE, has made new measurements that will help physicists work out the content of neutrino beams used in experiments in the US. At the time of the Big Bang, 13.8 billion …

News  ISOLDE takes a solid tick forward towards a nuclear clock

ISOLDE takes a solid tick forward towards a nuclear clock

“The observation at CERN’s nuclear physics facility of a long-sought decay of the thorium-229 nucleus in a solid-state system is a key step towards a clock that could outclass today’s most precise atomic clocks Atomic clocks are the …

News  A new ATLAS for the high-luminosity era

A new ATLAS for the high-luminosity era

“Stefan Guindon, Christian Ohm and Caterina Vernieri describe the major ‘Phase II’ upgrades taking place to prepare the ATLAS detector for the High-Luminosity LHC. The discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC in 2012 changed the landscape of high-energy …

News  First Run 3 physics result by CMS

First Run 3 physics result by CMS

“On 5 July, the LHC roared to life for its third run after three years of continual improvements to the machine as well as to the experiments’ detectors and analysis tools, and immediately reached a record energy of 13.6 …

News  Neutrinos out of the blue

Neutrinos out of the blue

“More than 17,000 photomultipliers for KM3NeT are already transmitting data from the Mediterranean seabed, opening a new vista on the neutrino’s properties. Paschal Coyle, Antoine Kouchner and Gwenhaël De Wasseige take a deep dive. In the dark abysses …

News  From atomic to nuclear clocks

From atomic to nuclear clocks

“Peter Thirolf, Benedict Seiferle and Lars von der Wense describe how recent progress in understanding thorium’s nuclear structure, and new upcoming results, could enable an ultra-accurate nuclear clock with applications in fundamental physics. For the past 60 years, the …

News  CERN tech in space: the first CERN-driven satellite has been successfully launched

CERN tech in space: the first CERN-driven satellite has been successfully launched

“With the launch of the CELESTA satellite for radiation monitoring in space, CERN shows its expertise in the field of radiation effects on electronics CELESTA, the first CERN-driven satellite, successfully entered orbit during the maiden flight of Europe’s …

News  LHCb discovers three new exotic particles

LHCb discovers three new exotic particles

“The collaboration has observed a new kind of “pentaquark” and the first-ever pair of “tetraquarks” The international LHCb collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has observed three never-before-seen particles: a new kind of “pentaquark” and the first-ever pair of …

News  VELO’s voyage into the unknown

VELO’s voyage into the unknown

“The installation of LHCb’s all-new Vertex Locator is part of a major upgrade that will extend the experiment’s capabilities to search for physics beyond the Standard Model, describe Stefano de Capua, Wouter Hulsbergen and David Hutchcroft. The first …