Category: Technologies
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HighLO
HighLO | What is HighLO?Project High Energy Physics Tools in Limit Order Book Analysis (HighLO) applies particle physics methods and tools to financial market data. GoalsWe aim to identify malicious trading behaviour such as market manipulation, to better protect markets. For societyOur research enables governments, regulators, exchanges and market participants to better understand what happens when
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HLS4ML
hls4ml | The goal of hls4ml is to provide an efficient and fast translation of machine learning models from open-source packages (like Keras and PyTorch) for training machine learning algorithms to high level synthesis (HLS) code that can then be transpiled to run on an FPGA. The resulting HLS project can be then used to produce
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VitaSenseAI
VitaSenseAI | VitaSense AI is a Machine Learning-based contactless monitoring technology enabling the estimation of physiological and non-physiological parameters (heart rate, respiration rate, facial motion, and body movements) using cameras and lasers without physical contact, electrodes, or wearable sensors, offering a hygienic, reusable, and real-time solution for monitoring people’s physiological and behavioural states. Contact Person
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Cafein
Cafein | CAFEIN® is a comprehensive federated platform developed and hosted at CERN. Integrating specialised software components, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and CERN’s robust infrastructure, it’s designed to support large-scale scientific collaboration. Contact Person Alessandro Raimondo Knowledge Transfer Officer a.raimondo@cern.ch Related Articles Projects
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Medipix
Medipix | Medipix3 is a CMOS pixel detector readout chip designed to be connected to a segmented semiconductor sensor. It acts as a camera taking images based on the number of particles which hit the pixels when the electronic shutter is open. However, Medipix3 also permits colour imaging and dead time free operation. A novel
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Timepix
Timepix | The original Timepix ASIC is a silicon chip developed at CERN by the Medipix2 Collaboration. The chip is divided into a 256×256 grid of tiny pixels, each one containing thousands of transistors that allow it to detect and analyse radiation. Its successor, Timepix2, can be programmed to operate in one of several modes
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FLASH
FLASH | An innovative electron radiotherapy technology Many breakthrough applications in the medical field have resulted from developments in particle physics research. One such example is the use of very high-energy electrons (VHEE) for a frontier radiotherapy technique called FLASH radiotherapy, a highly targeted cancer treatment, capable of reaching deep into a patient’s body with fewer side-effects than
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FLUKA
FLUKA | FLUKA (FLUktuierende KAskade or Fluctuating Cascade) is a general purpose tool for calculations of particle transport and interactions with matter. FLUKA can simulate, with high accuracy, the interaction and propagation of about 60 different types of particles in matter, including photons and electrons from 1 keV to thousands of TeV, neutrinos, muons of
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Space RadMon
Space RadMon | A flexible low-cost instrument for radiation monitoring in space Radiation poses a major threat to satellites. Galactic cosmic rays, solar flares and particles trapped in the Earth’s magnetosphere can have severe consequences on a satellite’s integrity, as the high energies associated with them can damage or even destroy its electronic components. CERN faces similar problems inside the
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Titanium polishing
Titanium polishing | Titanium polishing is a process to reduce the roughness, and thereby increase the brightness, of a metal surface made of titanium or titanium alloy. The technology described here is a patented electrolytic method (electropolishing), and related technical know-how, to polish titanium to a high degree of surface smoothness – typically down to
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Thermal Management Materials
Thermal Management Materials | As part of its accelerator R&D programme, CERN has developed a family of novel, graphite-based composite materials to perform reliably in extreme thermo-structural conditions. The most outstanding results have been with Molybdenum Carbide-Graphite composites (MoGr)—developed in collaboration with Brevetti Bizz (IT)—that exhibit thermal conductivities up to 900 W m−1K−1 , very
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White Rabbit
White Rabbit | White Rabbit provides sub-nanosecond accuracy and picoseconds precision of synchronization for large distributed systems. It also allows for deterministic and reliable data delivery. White Rabbit allows you to precision time-tag measured data and lets you trigger data taking in large installations while at the same time using the same network to transmit
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Train Inspection Monorail (TIM)
Train Inspection Monorail (TIM) | The Train Inspection Monorail (TIM) is a mechatronic product initially designed for CERN’s specific needs, with the goal to provide unmanned operations in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel when there is no active beam, during beam stops and machine shut-downs. The main functionalities that TIM provides, are surveying, monitoring,
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Thin film coatings
Thin film coatings | Thin film coatings for ultra-high vacuums CERN experts have significant expertise across a range of thin film coating techniques for producing High & Ultra-High Vacuum, particularly Non-Evaporable Getter (NEG) thin film coatings. NEG coatings are produced by sputtering an alloy of several selected metals onto a vacuum chamber wall. When activated
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Structured Laser Beam
Structured Laser Beam | The Structured Laser Beam represents a new paradigm in the creation of non-diffractive beams (NDBs) and it has the potential to greatly improve a number of mainstream applications using laser beams or light beams. With a very low divergence that keeps the spot size within a few millimetres even at distances
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Singular Light: Integrated Single Mode Laser Converter
Singular Light: Integrated Single Mode Laser Converter | Singular Light: Integrated Single Mode Laser Converter, is an efficient, simple device that relies on Raman laser conversion for generating a single longitudinal mode (SLM) laser output. The configuration offered by Singular Light not only offers a more robust generation of SLM lasers compared to conventional techniques,
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ROOT
ROOT | ROOT is a general-purpose framework that provides an object oriented set of tools with all the functionality needed to handle and analyze large amounts of data in an extremely efficient way. It defines the data as a set of objects, and then specialized storage methods are used to get direct access to the separate
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Quasar framework – OPC-UA server generation
Quasar framework – OPC-UA server generation | Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (henceforth OPC-UA) is a machine to machine communication protocol (middleware) for industrial automation developed by the OPC Foundation based on a client/server model. OPC-UA is widely used across diverse industry and research fields for integrating a wide variety of hardware devices and interconnecting
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QF-Lib
QF-Lib | QF-Lib is a Python library that provides high quality tools for quantitative finance. Among the features, there are modules for portfolio construction, time series analysis, risk monitoring and a diverse charting package. The library provides extensive functionality for financial data analysis in addition to a wide variety of tools for data processing and
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PicoTDC
PicoTDC | The PicoTDC is a specially developed 64 channel Time to Digital Converter (TDC) ASIC in 65nm CMOS for use in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments and similar scientific applications where high rate, very high time resolution single shot time measurements are required on a large number of channels. It is a succesor to
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Micro Chemical Vias
Micro Chemical Vias | Previous methods to produce microvias are based on complex technologies such as laser, plasma or photo imaging. Chemical Via is a new chemical method to make microvias for high density printed multilayer circuits. Microvias are used to interconnect adjacent layers and consist of a small diameter hole (usually 70µm) with a
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MEDICIS
MEDICIS | CERN-MEDICIS (Medical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE) is a unique facility designed to produce unconventional radioisotopes with the right properties to enhance the precision of both patient imaging and treatment. It will expand the range of radioisotopes available for medical research – some of which can be produced only at CERN – and send
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Magnet Power Supplies
Magnet Power Supplies | CERN has developed a family of short Pulse Power Supplies with very stringent specifications for the needs of particle accelerators such as Linacs, particles sources or injection systems. These power supplies are used to power conventional magnets, septum magnets, heating system of particles sources. The 4-Quadrant Magnet Power Supplies have very stringent specifications
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Kryolize
Kryolize | Kryolize is a software tool for sizing the minimum discharge area of a safety protection device, against overpressure. Based on international (ISO), European (EN) and American (API) standards, Kryolize allows calculation and sizing of safety valves for cryogenic systems and is a novel tool that will help engineers with a uniform approach in
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Invenio
Invenio | Invenio, the integrated digital library and repository system, is a suite of applications which provides the framework and tools for building and managing an autonomous digital library server. The technology offered by the software covers all aspects of digital library management. It complies with the Open Archives Initiative metadata harvesting protocol (OAI-PMH). Its flexibility and performance
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Integrated CO2 cooling system
Integrated CO2 cooling system | The Integrated 2-Phase Accumulator Controlled Loop (2PACL) is a modification of the existing 2PACL system developed for the AMS-Tracker and LHCb-VELO CO2 cooling systems. The integrated 2PACL method is a different way of operating and control the original 2PACL concept. The modification makes the system simpler, more reliable, better to
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Indico
Indico | Indico (Integrated Digital Conference) is a web-based, multi-platform, conference lifecycle and agenda management system. It has also become the long-term archiving tool for documents and metadata related to all kinds of events that take place at CERN, and a hub for accessing local and remote collaboration services at CERN. The software is used in production
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High Frequency Compact Linear Proton Accelerator
High Frequency Compact Linear Proton Accelerator | In the frame of its programme for medical applications, and building on its experience with the LINAC4 injector (the first stage in the Large Hadron Collider accelerator chain), the High-Frequency Radio Frequency Quadrupole (HF-RFQ) was constructed with the goal of providing a compact, low-current injector for a proton
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GEMPix
GEMPix | In 2016, CERN started investigating the use of GEMPix to measure the 3D energy deposition of a therapeutic ion beam in a water phantom, for medical imaging purposes. The GEMPix was developed by a CERN/INFN collaboration in the framework of the ARDENT Marie Curie project (2012-2016). The GEMPix detector combines existing CERN-developed technologies –
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Geant4
Geant4 | Geant4 is a toolkit for simulating the passage of particles through matter. It is the reference simulation engine for the LHC experiments at CERN and other high energy physics labs worldwide. Geant4 covers all relevant physics processes, electromagnetic, hadronic, decay, optical, for long and short lived particles, for energy range spanning from tens
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GaToroid
GaToroid | GaToroid is an innovative gantry design based upon a toroidal magnet concept, which eliminates the need to rotate the structure. The gantry comprises a set of discrete superconducting coils constituting the toroidal magnet, and a bending device at the entrance of the structure. By selecting the impinging angle of beams with different momentum
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DC-DC converter
DC-DC converter | A radiation and magnetic field tolerant DC-DC Point-Of-Load (POL), which enables distribution at higher voltage, with local on-detector conversion to the voltage required by the electronics, considerably decreasing the current in the cables. As main features, FEAST 2 presents bandgap, handling of dead time with adaptive logic, protection Over-Current (OVO) and Over-Temperature
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CERNbot
CERNbot | CERNbot is a modular and flexible robotic platform developed at CERN for complex interventions in harsh environments. It is highly customisable platform that can receive up to two commercial robotic arms working together in a coordinated manner. Applications Advantages Developed at CERN
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CERN VM-FS
CERN VM-FS | CernVM-FS is a web-based, global, and versioning file system optimized for software distribution. The file system content is installed on a central web server from where it can be mirrored and cached by other web servers and web proxies. File system clients download data and meta-data on demand and cache them locally.
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BioDynaMo
BioDynaMo | An open-source software platform to easily create, run, and visualise 3D agent-based simulations. Biology Dynamics Modeller (BioDynaMo) is an open source, agent-based, simulation software initially developed by researchers at CERN and Newcastle University, also with the support by seed funding from the CERN Medical Applications budget. It is a software platform designed to easily create, run,
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ActiWiz
ActiWiz | The activation of material is often an important issue for all environments exposed to accelerator beams. It has considerable impact on safety and handling constraints. One of the key parameters responsible for activation is the chemical composition of the material involved which can often be optimized in order to reduce material activation. However,