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The 1st International Conference on Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV) will be held in Lecce, Italy from 6-8 May 2013
The LHCb collaboration has recently announced new results for a parameter that measures the CP violation effect in particles containing charm quarks
Today's session at the Rencontres de Moriond, on the Standard Model scalar boson, is being web-cast live
The upgrade and maintenance of the LHC (LS1 - first long shutdown) started with the tests of most of the electromagnetic circuits
The LHCb collaboration has now reported a new analysis of the decay chain of an unconventional hadron, the X(3872)
On 24 February 1983 the journal Physics Letters B published a paper by the UA1 collaboration describing the discovery of the W boson
Register before 28 February
The proton-lead run was an unqualified success and a testament to painstaking preparation by the ion team
The CERN Courier is now available as a PDF edition
ROOT users' workshop 11-14 March 2013 in Saas-Fee, Switzerland (abstract deadline 25 Feb; registration deadline 7 Mar)
Register now to give an exciting scientific talk and you could be the new face of Science in Switzerland
The LHC starts the New Year facing a new challenge: proton-lead collisions in the last month before the shutdown in mid-February