The "Atomic Girls" tutors start their training!

The "Atomic Girls" tutors start their training!

Five physics, astronomy and astrophysics students had their first training today to become tutors for female high school students who will learn to detect muons in their homes and schools. The "Atomic Girls" workshop seeks to deliver...

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Beauty that breaks the symmetry of the cosmos

Our universe is made primarily of matter, not anti-matter. We are made of atoms, not anti-atoms. However, antimatter exists. Since Paul Dirac, in 1928, wrote a famous equation that treats space and time in the same way...

How muons science girls

Giovanna Cottin | Research Associate SAPHIR+ see more Muons are elementary particles similar to the electrons in our atoms. But they are not found in atoms. They rain down on us as a cascade of particles from the sky, as they are generated by the...

Chile's arrival at CERN

Giovanna Cottin | Associate Researcher SAPHIR+ see more Recently, the news that CERN, the European center for research in nuclear and particle physics, has accepted Chile as one of its member states has been highlighted in the national media....

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