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The CMS collaboration reported the Higgs boson’s mass with a precision of about 0.1%
During a two-month test run that started at the end of September, Linac4 will send negative hydrogen ions up to the door of the PS Booster
The story of how detector components ended up in medical imaging, in art restoration and even in space
The next Workshop on the Future of Silicon Detector Technologies will take place in Erfurt (Germany) on 2-3 December 2019
Registration is now open for the CERN Accelerator School’s course on RF for Accelerators, to be held in Kaunas, Lithuania, from 22 March to 4 April 2020
A new run of the CLOUD experiment examines the direct effect of cosmic rays on clouds
The final touches are being put to the new test facility to ready it for operation
The CMS collaboration has measured for the first time the variation, or “running”, of the top-quark mass
The second ProtoDUNE detector at CERN saw its first particle tracks in August
James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz receive the prize for discoveries in cosmology and astronomy
