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The NA64 collaboration has placed new limits on the interaction between a photon and its hypothetical dark-matter counterpart
On 10 July, CERN and APPEC founded EuCAPT, a research centre for astroparticle physics theory
CMS has also provided open access to 100% of its research data recorded in proton–proton collisions in 2010
The first measurement, by the ALICE collaboration, of an elliptic-shaped flow for bottomonium particles could help shed light on the early universe
ATLAS and CMS have studied the Higgs boson with the largest sample of proton–proton collision data recorded so far
International researchers and industry meet in Brussels for the annual meeting of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study to discuss the post-LHC era
Leaders of international scientific organisations support the International Day of LGBTQ+ people in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths
