Beamline for Schools is back 📣 Beamline for Schools (BL4S) is a physics competition for high-school students from all around the world. Each team can propose an experiment and the best proposals win a trip to #CERN or DESY to perform their experiments at a fully-equipped beamline. Here we see students from the previous BL4S edition conducting their experiment in CERN’s East Area. Would you like to perform your own experiment as well? Here’s all you need to know: 🔗 Register: cern.ch/bl4s  📆 Proposal submission deadline: 10 April 2025 🏆 Additional prizes for up to 70 teams 💻 Teams can participate in preparatory online events and virtual visits prior to submitting their proposal.

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and CERN’s physicist Fabiola Gianotti reflected on the miracle of our existence at Davos and played together “Le Cygne” by Camille Saint-Saëns.   « Both #physics and music are forms of exploration. Arts, science, philosophy… It’s all culture and what makes us human. »   Music 🤝 Physics #WEF2025   World Economic Forum 

Clocking nature’s heaviest elementary particle The CMS Collaboration has tested whether top quarks play by Einstein’s rules all day and all night. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/diXkMWHk 

GaToroid – getting closer to affordable cancer therapy CERN has been contributing to developing technologies to improve hadron therapy for the past 30 years. Now, a team #AtCERN is working on new design concepts that would make the machines delivering hadron therapy much more compact and economically viable. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eccvJsrK 

Have you ever seen light collide? In very rare collisions at the #LHC, we can see photons collide, and this helps CMS test the #quantum part of electromagnetism, search for new particles, and so much more! Read the briefing here: https://lnkd.in/esQJWVqp #physics #physicsnews #CERN CERN

👀 Curious about what it is like to work at CERN? Join us this Thursday for the Gradcracker webinar! You will hear directly from students and graduates about their experience working at CERN, and learn how you can begin your journey with us in Geneva.  We would love to see you there! 📅 16.01.2025 | 🕒 15.00 CET / 14.00 GMT 🔗 Register at https://lnkd.in/edb4q_fj CERN. Take part! #CERN #Gradcracker #STEMCareers

We are excited to feature a video spotlighting John Jowett, who first came to CERN as a summer student. His journey led to a highly successful career at CERN as an accelerator physicist specialising in the design and performance of circular colliders. 📽️ 👉Discover his inspiring story and contributions to the field: https://lnkd.in/eNN5xeed

In an inspiring interview, CERN alumnus Trivan Pal shares his 50-year journey 🌌✨in physics and his unique connection to CERN. Reflecting on his experiences, he says, "Every time I've been at CERN, I feel like I'm shrouded by a blanket of scientific security... standing on the shoulders of giants. I've been extremely privileged to do that here at CERN."  💡Don't miss his full story: https://lnkd.in/eiXa_YJc #CERNAlumni #inspiringinterview #physics

Recreate the iconic ATLAS experiment using 3D printing! 🖨️ This 1:100 scale, highly detailed model was designed by physicist Jan Brajer to capture the complexity and beauty of the experiment at CERN. The model is split into smaller parts, each representing individual detector systems. Perfect for 3D printing enthusiasts and science lovers alike! Ready to start? Download the files here: https://lnkd.in/dmFgf3Cx

🚨 Less than a month left to apply to the 2025 CERN openlab summer student programme 🚨 ❗ Applications are closing on the 26th of January at 23h59 CET time. If you still haven’t applied and are thinking if you should do it, listen to last year’s CERN openlab summer students exciting experiences. ➡ Victor Virag (UCL) worked on the implementation of a backup replication and disaster recovery system for CERN’s JEEDY platform applications, including EDMS. Victor’s project used Rclone to copy restic backups from OpenStack to Oracle Cloud Archive-tier Object Storage. This method ensures backups are immutable, geographically seperate, and offers a secondary copy that is faster to retrieve compared to tape storage. Retention rules are applied to prevent unauthorized deletion or modification. Prometheus is used for real-time monitoring of system performance. This solution improves data protection, guards against malicious access, and ensures recovery if primary backups fail, improving the overall resilience and reliability of CERN’s backup strategy. ➡ Ali Hafez (Yale University) worked on #DigitalTwins at CERN. CERN has substantial interest in the use of digital twins for many technological, engineering, and scientific improvements. In this project, digital twins aim to provide assistance with planning interventions. Using NVIDIA Omniverse, a 3D simulation and programming engine, a large-scale 3D digital twin of the CERN accelerator complex was created and simulated. This was done using CERN CAD data that was converted to the Universal Scene Descriptor (USD) format. These models and data were used in the digital twin to create interactive tools for intervention planning and simulation, including navigation through areas, animations, analyzing access levels, and simulating intervention size and weight. You can find more about the previous CERN openlab summer student projects here: https://lnkd.in/dBX9Zb3u   📥 Apply now to the 2025 CERN openlab summer student programme: https://lnkd.in/dARQYVNg