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The first prototype module of the Compact Linear Collider Study (CLIC) is operational in the dedicated test facility at CERN
The CMS collaboration recently completed the full Run 1 data analysis in each of the most important channels for the decay and production of the Higgs
For the first time a collider has brought ions of helium-3 into collision with gold nuclei
ALICE has used a new technique to look at the size of the final state at ‘freeze-out’ in proton-proton and proton-lead collisions
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole has been collecting data on some of the most violent collisions in the universe
ISOLDE is holding a special 50th anniversary edition of its annual workshop to celebrate the approval of the programme in 1964
ICTP director Fernando Quevedo talks to Antonella Del Rosso about the contribution that theorists make to society and why it deserves support
Issue 12 of Accelerating News, a quarterly publication for the accelerator community, is now available
Two open meetings are taking place at CERN and Fermilab on forming an international Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility collaboration
An overview of the experiment written by physicists Monica Dunford and Peter Jenni has been published on the peer-reviewed website Scholarpedia
More than 110 experts from all over the world gathered in Tsukuba, Japan for the 4th Joint HiLumi LHC/ LARP Annual Meeting
The award-winning OpenStack cloud at CERN will grow from 75,000 to over 100,000 processing cores for LHC Run 2