Next Generation Triggers
Innovative computing technologies for data acquisition and processing
for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider and beyond
Our research
Experiment Trigger Systems
ATLAS and CMS experts in NextGen develop new workflows and data processing techniques to increase the sensitivity of future particle physics triggers
Heterogeneous Computing
NextGen develops and benchmarks software and techniques to exploit accelerated computing architectures keeping in mind cost and energy efficiency
Artificial Intelligence
NextGen investigates the use of AI technologies to improve the experiments’ physics impact leveraging massive data throughput pipelines and large-scale models
Physics Simulation
Theoretical physicists and software engineers in NextGen look at new event generators techniques to improve simulation and detection of exotic signatures
Education and Training
NextGen works with the High-Energy Physics community and computer science experts to provide new generations of scientists with the right skills for tomorrow’s challenges
News & Events
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Optimising floating point workshop – Registrations open!
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Scientific applications in high energy physics depend in many areas on floating point operations in single, double or even higher precision. With the upcoming runs at the LHC, both the amount of data and the precision for its calculation will increase significantly and therefore the computing resource requirements. It has already been proven that the…
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Bringing ML to the Trigger: Highlights from the ATLAS & CMS MLOps Workshop
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On 2 June 2025, the NGT ATLAS & CMS MLOps Workshop took place at CERN’s IdeaSquare, marking the first installment in a new series of workshops & events looking to bring together intra and inter-experiment groups to start discussion on the effective deployment of Machine Learning algorithms into the hardware trigger systems and beyond in…
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“Being at CERN made everything much more real”
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Tasos and Erwan reflect on their time at CERN through the NGT Exchange Programme As part of the Next Generation Triggers (NGT) exchange programme, we recently welcomed two master’s students from Uppsala University—Anastasios Kakos (Greece) and Erwan Larie-Kerboull (France)—. Working under the supervision of Prof. Rebeca González Suárez and collaborating with NGT fellows Maria Carnesale…
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Tackling Negative Weights in High-Energy Physics Simulations
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Last week, from May 5 to 8, researchers from across the high-energy physics community gathered at CERN to take on a thorny problem in modern event generation: negative weights. As computing demands rise with the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), so too does the urgency to make Monte Carlo (MC) simulations more efficient. Negative weights—an artefact of…
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1st NGT Hackathon: a week of innovation and collaboration
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The 1st NGT Hackathon, held at CERN’s IdeaSquare from 7–11 April 2025, brought together more than 40 students and researchers from across the Next Generation Triggers (NGT) collaboration and other 15 institutes. Throughout the week, participants rolled up their sleeves to explore a range of hands-on topics, including writing their first coroutine, running generators on…
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Applications Now Open for the ESC School 2025 in Bertinoro, Italy
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in SchoolsWe are happy to announce that applications are now open for the Efficient Scientific Computing (ESC) School 2025, an advanced training opportunity for PhD students, post-docs, and researchers working in scientific computing launched in collaboration with the Next Generation Triggers (NGT). ESC 2025 will take place from 29 September to 9 October 2025 in the…