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Works have started today, in the USA, for the LBNF facility that will host giant neutrino detectors. Their prototypes are being developed at CERN.
After installing the third of four cryomodules, the HIE-ISOLDE facility began its 2017 physics run expecting great results
Follow a drone’s journey as it flies through and over some of CERN’s most interesting sites
The world’s particle physics community is meeting this week in Venice (Italy) for the EPS International Conference on High Energy Physics
Laura Couto Rosado, winner of the "Collide Pro Helvetia" prize, looks forward to continuing her three-month residency at CERN
The chain of accelerators that prepare beams for the LHC also supplies myriad experiments
The CERN Data Centre passed a major milestone on 29 June 2017 with more than 200 petabytes of data now archived on tape
The LHCb experiment has reported the observation of a baryon containing two charm quarks and one up quark
On 4 July 2017, the Republic of Slovenia became an Associate Member State of CERN in pre-stage to Membership
Five years ago, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations announced the discovery of the Higgs boson
The Large Hadron Collider has established a new record of luminosity, delivering a huge amount of data to its experiments
Hélène Langevin-Joliot, physicist and granddaughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, will give a lecture at CERN on 29 June 8.30 p.m. – follow the webcast!