Here we see the beam dump installed at the Proton Synchrotron (PS) in 2020, when the first synchrotron in CERN’s accelerator family was being outfitted with new, ultra-modern equipment.

The new beam dump works differently to those normally used at CERN. It moves to meet the…

A momentous day in my academic journey to take over the charge of Director, IISER Mohali from Prof Purnananda Guptasarma in presence of Registrar Prof Jagdeep. Had enriching discussion with Deans n Heads to take IISERM to greater levels of excellence, relevance n global impact

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I am super proud of two younger colleagues - Rashna Bhandari DBT-CDFD Hyderabad Amitabha Majumdar DBT-NCCS Pune for publishing two fundamental results. Both the works represent breakthroughs in their respective fields.

Posting summaries here.

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Congratulations Uma Ramakrishnan - you do TIFR India proud 😊😊
International honour for NCBS ecologist deccanherald.com/india/karnatak… via @deccanherald

Why do scientists smash particles together in a massive underground tunnel?

And now, why do so many scientists say that what we really need to do is build... a BIGGER one?

For our new episode of Huge If True, we traveled to Switzerland to visit CERN and explain the Large…

The joys of spring cleaning .. A poster from #1992 celebrating The Nobel Prize of Georges Charpak at CERN (with his signature), yours truly without any clue of the future, pretending to be confident... a group photo celebrating my #Doctorate (from Geneva University, May 1996) ..

My remarks at the Oxford Union almost a yr ago have made their way across social media. I gave a perspective on what has changed in India, citing events & anecdotes to support my argument. I’m overwhelmed to see how it has resonated with so many of you.🙏
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Our new CERN episode is quickly becoming one of our most-watched episodes of Huge If True yet! It's now neck and neck with F1 Cars (another of my personal favorites) 👀

Today’s #PhotoOfTheWeek take us back to last week’s #CERN70 event “The virtuous circle of knowledge and Innovation”. The event delved into the dynamic relationship between particle physics research and technological innovation.

Would you like to know more on how CERN contributes…

The original CERN x LEGO collab?🧪
From 1975: 'Presenting the results of a high-energy physics experiment, while depriving the sons of several physicists of their favourite building blocks. [...] a 3D representation of the data from a recent search for charmed particles.'

CMS releases #HiggsBoson discovery data to the public

The CMS Experiment CERN has recently released, in electronic format, the combination of the measurements that contributed to establishing the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.

This release coincides with the publication of…

Quantum tunneling is a process where a particle can pass through a barrier that it normally would not have enough energy to overcome. This happens because the particle has a wave-like nature and can exist in a superposition of states, meaning it has a nonzero probability of being…

No known particle is heavy enough to decay into two Higgs bosons. Finding evidence of the resonant production of Higgs pairs would therefore be clear evidence for new physics.

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#OnThisDay in 1906 Pierre Curie died in a tragic accident. Marie Skłodowska Curie - his wife and research partner - was offered a government pension but she refused. Instead, she continued the pair's studies and in 1911 became the first person to be awarded two Nobel Prizes.

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🚨You’re underground at CMS and the alarm sounds – what do you do?🚨

That's exactly what CMS #safety set out to test in the latest evacuation exercise!

🗞️Read how this feeds into a wider study on exemplary underground safety operations:🗞️ cms.cern/news/blazing-t…

Prof. Anil Kumar Tripathi ji has been appointed as the Director of the IISER, Mohali.
Congratulations to Prof. Tripathi.
Matter of great honour for all of us.

Heartfelt congratulations to Prof. Anil Kumar Tripathi ji on his appointment as the Director, IISER, Mohali.
A matter of great honour for BHU and the Institute of Science.