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Two teams of high-school students from Switzerland and Germany, have won the 2020 Beamline for Schools competition
At the LHCP conference this year, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented new results relating to a physics process called vector boson scattering
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations presented their latest results on new signatures for detecting the Higgs boson at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
The ALICE, CMS and LHCb collaborations present new measurements that show how particles containing charm quarks can serve as “messengers” of hadrons and the quark–gluon plasma, carrying information about these forms of matter
The study of light antinuclei – from creation to annihilation – will bolster future indirect dark matter searches
The result represents an essential step towards using these molecules for fundamental physics research and beyond
The CLOUD collaboration has revealed a new mechanism that drives winter smog episodes in cities
Further studies could be used to test the Standard Model of particle physics
CERN establishes a task force to identify and support contributions from the Organization to combatting the COVID-19 pandemic
CERN is open in virtual mode. Many scientists and collaborators are teleworking.