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Congratulations to this Year 13 student whose essay secured her a place at the Liverpool@CERN Particle School at CERN in Geneva

The five-day residential programme took place in August 2026 and was attended by  24 students from schools in Liverpool, Birmingham, London and Kent.

Students were invited to write an essay on a set title.  She explains more: "I wrote my essay on the Future Circular Collider. This is a new particle collider recently proposed at CERN. It would operate at a much higher energy than the LHC and would have significantly improved sensitivity. This could reveal solutions to the unknowns in our current physics framework."

It was an incredible experience, involving lectures from CERN’s specialists and tours of the facilities. My particular favourite was the antimatter factory, where I saw a range of experiments and equipment used in attempt to solve the matter-antimatter asymmetry problem. I also attended an interesting lecture on the Standard Model. I learnt a lot about the aims at CERN and the various experiments used to achieve these.

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