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The experiment, which will complement existing searches for dark matter at the LHC, will be operational in 2021
Today, the Director-General of CERN, Fabiola Gianotti, and the Minister of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia, Blaženka Divjak, signed an Agreement admitting Croatia as an Associate Member of CERN.
The LHC produced unprecedented volumes of data during its two multi-year runs, and, with its current upgrades, more computing challenges are in store
The SPS radiofrequency acceleration system is being enhanced with a new technology: solid-state amplifiers
As part of CERN’s celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the Web, an international team is at CERN to recreate the WorldWideWeb browser
With the LHC switched off for a two-year technical stop, CMS is undergoing significant maintenance and upgrades
The CMS collaboration at CERN has submitted its first paper based on the full LHC dataset collected in 2018 and data collected in 2016 and 2017
Enhancing ATLAS’s detection capabilities in preparation for the LHC restart
Following our article on the PS Booster, we take a look at the next link in CERN’s accelerator chain: the venerable PS and its magnet system
Major internal improvements await the ALICE detector during CERN’s Long Shutdown 2 (LS2)