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Physicists speaking today at the Moriond conference say that the new particle discovered at CERN last year is looking more and more like a Higgs boson
On 1 March, UN’s Secretary-General visited CERN first since the Organization was granted Observer status at the UN General Assembly last December
On 1 March, the ATLAS Collaboration welcomed a new spokesperson, Dave Charlton, and two new deputy spokespersons, Thorsten Wengler and Beate Heinemann
On 24 February 1983 the journal <em>Physics Letters B</em> published a paper by the UA1 collaboration describing the discovery of the W boson
The Linear Collider Collaboration unites global development work for a next-generation particle collider
In a year where the LHC delivered nearly as much data in a week as it did previously in a month, the ATLAS experiment went from strength to strength
In the recent lead-proton run at the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment took proton-ion data for the first time
On Saturday at 8.25am the crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the LHC, ending the machine’s first three-year running period
From photonic crystals to fibre-optic sensors, the KT Fund is supporting new initiatives to disseminate technology to society
The CERN Data Centre has collected more than 100 petabytes of data – equivalent to roughly 700 years of full HD-quality movies
At 7.24am, the shift crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the Large Hadron Collider, ending the machine’s first three-year run