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CERN's experiments are global efforts. The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics honors over 13,000 researchers whose labors have led to the precise description the Higgs mechanism, the discovery of dozens of new particles, analysis of rare processes and matter-antimatter asymmetry and exploration of nature at the shortest distances and most extreme conditions. breakthroughprize.org/News/9… @CERN
If anyone's wondering why we spend huge efforts to only store a tiny but carefully selected fraction of data that could come from our detector: even that data (+simulated data) is huge! Storing and managing it is yet another challenge
New milestone for the ATLAS experiment at @CERN! We've hit over 1 exabyte (that's 1 billion billion bytes) of real and simulated data worldwide, managed using @RucioData.
That's a whole lotta data! #datascience🌌💾
If anyone's wondering what kind of systems I've been busy with during the last few years you may want to tune in here (the speaker is low balling some numbers, the two bigger experiments would produce well over 50 TB/s without a hardware trigger ;) )
Today's CERN openlab Summer Student Lecture is about ‘DAQ-filtering data from 50 TB/s to 1GB/s’.
Hear from Flavio Pisani (CERN) how @CERN safely moves the physically relevant part of the data produced by the #LHC to long-term storage.
Join the webcast: indico.cern.ch/event/1386474…
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Physicists: prepare for particles 🫡
Have you ever wondered how the ATLAS experiment prepares for the restart of the #LHC and the start of the data-taking season? Hear from @ATLASExperiment physicists Monica, Andrej, and Catrin about how they got ready for chapter three of #LHCRun3.
#DidYouKnow that ATLAS is the largest detector ever constructed? At 46 metres long and 25 metres in diameter, its construction defied the limits of existing technology.
We seem to have a consensus… Can you name our physicists’ favourite upgrade? Tell us in the comments below.
Find out more: atlas.cern/
First "stable beams" at high energy for this year coming up - experiment's control room is getting quite crowded
and we're going.... (in case you didn't know: it's from a public status page: op-webtools.web.cern.ch/vist… )
Around 6:00 am this morning LHC dumped it's last beams for this year.
Hope I can finally get some rest soon now that my days will be less affected by frequent changes of plans during operations (experiments often need to adjust very quickly)
A Thirty Laps Around the Sun...
What a time scale, just daring to imagine 30y ago that today we could handle all the data collected (several 100s of PB!) seems just crazy
The ATLAS Collaboration at @CERN is turning 30! 🎂
On 1 Oct 1992, thirty years ago today, we submitted our letter of intent to the LHC Experiments Committee - marking the start of a new era of scientific discovery. Check out our timeline to learn more!
Guess what's back...? A new SciCraft Server Tour has just dropped! youtu.be/eLEtwdAXtwc
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Live from CERN: Join us for the first collisions for physics at 13.6 TeV! xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1MYGNnnZz…
Almost a little sad that I won't be able to watch the stream live... will be busy inside of one of the experiment's control rooms ;)
#LHCRun3 is about to start! 🤩
Since #restartingLHC, CERN experts have been hard at work to recommission the #LHC for its third run, called Run 3. Join us live on 5 July, 16.00 CEST to celebrate this milestone with the first-ever collisions with stable beams at 13.6 TeV! ⬇️
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🎙️New #LHC event displays just dropped.
Check out these visualisations of proton beams splashing inside the ATLAS Experiment at @CERN this morning! These splashes play a key role in preparing the detector for data-taking. Learn more: cern.ch/go/VK69
A somewhat late lunch after performing tests in the @ATLASexperiment control room since early in the morning working towards Run 3 of the LHC
Needles are being threaded...
Live status: op-webtools.web.cern.ch/vist…
#BehindTheScenes from CERN Control Centre, today 22 April 2022 in preparation for #restartingLHC
Stay tuned for more!
Don't miss it!
Starting soon! ⏰
Join ATLAS physicists Elise Le Boulicaut and Clara Nellist for a live virtual visit of the ATLAS experiment. This is your LAST chance to see it before #restartingLHC.
youtube.com/watch?v=50V0SyAS…
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📢 Starting soon 📢 Join Dr. Heather Russell for a LIVE public talk at 8pm CET/2pm ET.
Dr. Russell will explain how physicists decide which #LHC collisions to record & will answer audience questions – ask yours in the Youtube chat! ⤵️ youtube.com/watch?v=06ICXSV7…
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Beams splash in the ATLAS Experiment! 🎇
For the first time in over 2 years, pilot beams are back in the LHC. ATLAS recorded its first "splash" collision events, testing the detector with real particles in preparation for the 2022 restart.
Learn more: cern.ch/go/n9lp
ALT ATLAS beam splash collision event, recorded on 19 October 2021 at 15:46.
Anyone else joining in? :D
🚨 Catch us Live today at 5 pm CEST as we show you inside the cavern of the @ATLASexperiment and talk about its most recent upgrade – the Small Muon Wheel
✔︎Reminder on
youtu.be/WYvHiqI4FdA
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⏰ Starting soon! ⏰ Join Dr. Hongtao Yang for a LIVE public talk about the #HiggsBoson!
Dr. Yang will be taking audience questions after his talk - make sure to post yours in the Youtube chat. Tune in ⤵️