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The LHC is operating for several hours with the nuclei of xenon atoms
Two high-school teams from Italy and Canada had the opportunity to conduct their own experiments at a fully-equipped CERN beamline
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for the detection of gravitational waves
On 1 October 1992, the newly formed ATLAS and CMS collaborations both submitted letters of intent for the construction of their detectors
Tonight, CERN will be open to the general public to celebrate science
CMS experiment delves into the mystery of neutrino masses
On the occasion of the EUCAS 2017 conference, superconducting magnets and cavities were turned into musical instruments
High-temperature superconductors have the potential to revolutionise the field of particle physics
Intensity tests have been successfully completed on the FRESCA2 magnet. It will serve as a test bench for the development of more powerful magnets
CERN openlab has published a white paper identifying the major ICT challenges that face CERN and other ‘big science’ projects in the coming years
The third article in our series on superconductors takes us to the heart of the detectors and their extraordinary and powerful magnets
The use of superconducting material has enabled the development of more powerful accelerating cavities