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Ideas, collaboration, and lots of coding at the 2nd Next Generation Triggers hackathon

Participants of the 2nd NGT Hackathon at the Globe. Picture: Alex Lasa Lamarca

From 20 to 24 October 2025, more than 40 participants from NGT CMSATLAS, and other NGT work packages gathered at IdeaSquare for the second edition of the 



1st Next Generation Triggers Hackathon: a week of innovation and collaboration

1st Next Generation Triggers Hackathon: a week of innovation and collaboration

The 1st NGT Hackathon, held at CERN IdeaSquare from 7–11 April 2025, brought together more than 40 students and researchers from across the Next Generation Triggers (NGT) collaboration and 15 other institutes.



Scouting the flow of data for the future High Luminosity LHC

How to manage large amounts of data without losing any interesting ones? The selection of data concerning particle collisions in the LHC is critical since it will determine all the resulting analyses. This is the decisive work of a novel scouting system located at the beginning of the data chain.
From top to bottom: ATLAS, CERN Data Centre and CMS How to manage large amounts of data without losing any interesting ones? The selection of data concerning particle collisions in the LHC is critical since it will determine all the resulting analyses. This is the decisive work of a novel scouting system located at the beginning of the data chain.

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