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    Thousands of people visited CERN during Heritage Day thanks to the SAPHIR immersive experience

    • June 2, 2026
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    A New Strategy for Particle Physics and Opportunities for Chile: A Perspective from SAPHIR

    • June 1, 2026
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    The SAPHIR Millennium Institute is participating for the second consecutive year in Puerto de Ideas Antofagasta 2026 with an immersive LHC experience

    • April 28, 2026
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    Chile officially becomes an Associate Member State of CERN

    • April 2, 2026
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    When snow “confuses” cosmic rays: the Chilean experiment that looks at the sky with fresh eyes

    • March 29, 2026
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Date: October 17, 2025

Chilean engineering at the frontier of physics: Cristopher Rozas and his contribution to CERN's ATLAS ITk detector

Engineer Cristopher Rozas, a researcher at the SAPHIR Millennium Institute, is part of the international team developing Inner Tracker (ITk), the new internal detection system for the ATLAS experiment at CERN, one of the world's most ambitious scientific projects. This upgrade, part of the Phase-II Upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), will multiply […]

Millennium Institute SAPHIR participates in ATLAS Collaboration Week 2025 through the participation of Dr. Francisca Garay

The researcher from the UC Institute of Physics and deputy director of SAPHIR participated in the scientific meeting held in Paestum, Italy, strengthening Chile’s presence in CERN’s ATLAS collaboration. ATLAS Collaboration Week 2025, held from October 13 to 17 at the Centro Congressi Hotel Ariston in Paestum (Salerno, Italy), […]

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