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Five Indian school students win CERN's 'Beamline for Schools' competition
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THE BRIEF
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Five Indian high school students won the 13th edition of CERN's 'Beamline for Schools' competition with their project named 'attoPION'.
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The students—Nenavath Abhay Vivek, Sidhartha Aniket Jaiswal, Ayush Bhardwaj, Aarush Mandala, and Aritra Sadhukhan—studied pion charge exchange for particle physics.
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The team utilized CERN documentation and Geant4 simulations to analyze how charged pions transform when hitting light atoms like lithium and beryllium.