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The timing and duration of the third long shutdown (LS3) of the Large Hadron Collider and injector complex has changed, here’s why
A special high-level ceremony held at CERN crowned a year-long celebration taking place across Europe and beyond
The CERN Council has announced that Professor Costas Fountas will become its 25th President beginning on 1 January 2025
In the Standard Model of particle physics, the odds of this decay occurring are less than one in 10 billion
With its updated analysis methods, the ATLAS collaboration has significantly improved the precision of its measurements of Higgs boson interactions
Lucio Rossi led the group responsible for developing and launching the industrial production of the superconducting magnets for the LHC
The eagerly awaited result is the most precise measurement of the W mass made at the LHC so far, and is in line with the prediction from the Standard Model of particle physics
The results open up a new perspective on the complex world of quantum physics
Walter Oelert led the team of researchers who produced the world’s first atoms of antihydrogen in 1995
Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal in 1989 for an information management system called the World Wide Web
