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This year's school will be held in Bulgaria from 2-15 September. Register by 15 May 2015
Some 340 people attended the inaugural FCC conference week in Washington DC to discuss the study status and plans for the future
Featuring some 33 talks about latest results and the future of cosmic-ray physics, CERN’s AMS Days will take place from 15-17 April
Articles published by CERN authors in Elsevier Physics journals that are not covered by the SCOAP3 Open Access initiative will now be Open Access
A short circuit in a superconducting dipole magnet is delaying the beam injection in the LHC. Teams are working around the clock to fix the issue
This week delegates at the first Annual Meeting of the FCC study will discuss the status of their project to decide on a baseline for further study
A workshop in DESY looked at what the data from HERA can still offer for experiments, now and in the future
LHCb physicists today presented their latest analysis of the rare B → K*μμ decay. The new results show deviations from Standard Model calculations
Don't miss today's webcast at 5.30pm celebrating 50 years of particle physics at the Rencontres de Moriond in Italy
The CALorimetric Electron Telescope is preparing for installation in the flight module that will bring it to its final destination on the ISS
The femtosecond pulses and astonishing peak brilliance of X-ray free-electron lasers are enabling whole new classes of experiments for imaging biology
Work continues apace for the high-luminosity upgrade for the LHC 10 years from now
