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

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 ;) )

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/

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

Guess what's back...? A new SciCraft Server Tour has just dropped! youtu.be/eLEtwdAXtwc

Live from CERN: Join us for the first collisions for physics at 13.6 TeV! x.com/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 ;)

We got it FIRST TRY!!! Scicraft making history again!! Water in the NETHER!!!!!!

🎙️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…

Don't miss it!

📢 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…

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

Anyone else joining in? :D

⏰ 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 ⤵️