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After two decades of design and construction, CERN’s newest accelerator, Linac4, is on its way to join the LHC injection chain
In 1968, Georges Charpak invented the Nobel prize-winning multiwire proportional chamber pushing particle physics detection into the electronic era
The LHC shows its teeth each time protons misbehave
In a paper published today in the European Physical Journal C, the ATLAS Collaboration reports the first high-precision measurement of W boson mass
Precision results from the TOTEM experiment provide further explanation on proton-proton interactions at high energies
Methods from theoretical physics are shedding light on the brain’s circuitry
Showcasing female computer programmers from CERN and Fermilab to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
A new project uses technology originally developed for CERN’s Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) to help build compact X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs)
CERN's Director-General, Fabiola Gianotti, is co-chairing this week's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
A key component for the ProtoDUNE neutrino experiment arrived this week at CERN from the UK
The CMS collaboration closes in on exotic long-lived particles that could get trapped in its detector layers