European collaboration key to making disruptive accelerator technology a reality

The innovative plasma-based accelerator facility, being developed through the EuPRAXIA project, could be game-changing, say speakers at a recent Brussels event

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17 June, 2026

CERN teams up with Ukrainian lab to develop scintillation for future innovative electromagnetic calorimeters

The EU-funded project nearly did not go ahead as it kicked off shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Despite the challenges, it has delivered positive results

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12 June, 2026

The world’s first high-temperature superconducting canted-cosine-theta sextupole comes to life

The demonstrator has been wound, cooled and powered-up, running beyond the current and temperature it was designed for

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12 June, 2026

A look back at IPAC’26

The premier annual gathering for the global accelerator community brought together 1,500 delegates from all around the world

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12 June, 2026

‘How I became a CERN Accelerator School teacher’

Michela Neroni, an Italian engineer, recounts her career journey that has led her to working at CERN and teaching a new generation of accelerator scientists

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16 March, 2026

Students can sign up now for particle accelerator Challenge Based Innovation event

The CBI event is aimed at senior bachelor's and master's students at European universities

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16 March, 2026

Beam gas curtain monitor becomes an operational instrument for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

The monitor is capable of producing a larger and denser gas curtain, and will be installed in the LHC’s counterclockwise Beam 2 line

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15 March, 2026

HEARTS’ CERN facility completes second successful radiation testing campaign with industry and scientific users

The European Union-funded HEARTS project has successfully completed a second, expanded radiation testing campaign at its CERN facility

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14 March, 2026

New EU-funded accelerator project aims to bring to life groundbreaking technologies

The EPITA project will build 22 new prototypes that could be game-changing for Europe’s particle accelerator community

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13 March, 2026