ATLAS acts as a cosmic-ray laboratory ✨
The @atlasexperiment.bsky.social reports its first measurement of proton–oxygen collisions at the #LHC, which recreate cosmic-ray interactions with Earth’s atmosphere.
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BIG NEWS! ✏️✨
We are handing the pen to students. We are launching a student writing contest, with the three winning articles to be published in Science in School (+ additional prizes).
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Muon g-2 Experiment Pioneers Win Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Recognition honors experiments and scientific collaborations at three institutions that explored the subtle wobble of a subatomic particle
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CMS looks deep inside quarks 🔎
The CMS Collaboration (@cmsexperiment.bsky.social) has probed deep inside quarks to search for potential building blocks within them.
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Issue 77 is out – it's a very special edition! 🎉
Every article comes directly from one of our funders: eight of Europe’s largest research facilities! Running through all articles like a golden thread is one theme: light.
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#EduSky
Chile becomes an Associate Member State of CERN 🇨🇱
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📸1) NASA/Bill Ingalls, 2) CERN
At 00:35 CEST today, the Artemis II mission successfully launched, marking the first human journey to the Moon since 1972.
Six Timepix chips developed #AtCERN will measure the radiation environment inside the spacecraft that will orbit the Moon during @NASA’s Artemis II mission.
CERN levels up with new superconducting karts 🏎️
The race is on to test new vehicles in the underground Large Hadron Collider tunnel, ahead of major works starting this summer.
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Take a look at some answers to the frequently asked questions about antimatter
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The questions that matter: #Antimatter edition
On 24 March, a team of scientists from the BASE experiment at CERN successfully transported a trap filled with antiprotons in a truck across the Laboratory’s main site.
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Earlier this week, a team of scientists from the BASE experiment #AtCERN succeeded in transporting antiprotons in a truck across the Laboratory’s main site.
Christian Smorra explains how the BASE-STEP portable antiproton trap captures and stores antiprotons.
CMS strengthens the case for toponium
A new independent measurement by the @cmsexperiment.bsky.social at the #LHC is consistent with the existence of the most massive composite particle ever observed, the momentary union of a top quark and its antiquark.
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CERN to host Europe’s flagship open access publishing platform
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Antimatter on the move 🚛
Today, in a world first, a team of scientists from the BASE experiment #AtCERN succeeded in transporting antiprotons in a truck across the Laboratory’s main site.
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BASE experiment at CERN succeeds in transporting antimatter
The experiment successfully transported a trap filled with antiprotons across CERN’s main site, a remarkable first step towards delivering antimatter to other European laboratories.
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ALICE sees new sign of primordial plasma in proton collisions
The ALICE Collaboration takes a step further in addressing the question of whether a quark–gluon plasma can be formed in proton–proton and proton–nucleus collisions.
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Man with hardhat sitting looking up at the giant ATLAS experiment in its underground cavern
ATLAS sets strong limits on #supersymmetry
Using machine-learning techniques, the ATLAS Collaboration has searched deep for signs of particles that could help answer some of the greatest mysteries of physics
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@atlasexperiment.bsky.social #LHC
The test stand for the #HiLumiLHC, the IT String, just hit its operating temperature: 1.9 Kelvin – only two degrees above the absolute zero, the coldest temperature possible.
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The LHCb Collaboration discovers new proton-like particle
Composed of two charm quarks and one down quark, the doubly charmed particle is four times heavier than a proton.
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Today, she shares insights into the future plans for the world’s largest machine as we prepare to transform the LHC into the #HiLumiLHC, a groundbreaking accelerator that will usher in a new era for high-energy physics.
The future of physics 💫
Last week, Chiara, an accelerator physicist, took us to the CERN Control Centre (CCC) to explain the restart process for the Large Hadron Collider (#LHC).
The projects will support a wide variety of activities, including advancing accelerator technologies and creating access networks for medical and aerospace research.
CERN has 13 new projects funded by the European Union under the Research Infrastructures call of Horizon Europe 🇪🇺
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#FunFact: The first event displays in particle physics were direct images of traces left by particles when they interacted with gases or liquids. Today, experiment teams use software to convert data into graphical objects, which are then rendered in a specialised application.
Sailing the high energies ⚡
These are the first high-energy collisions recorded by the #LHC experiments in 2026.
Representing particle collisions at an energy of 13.6 TeV, these event displays mark the beginning of the experiments’ data-taking season and the final #LHCRun3.
#BeamTime
