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CERN is participating in ARIA, a project to build a 350-metre column to produce extra-pure argon to be used in a dark-matter search experiment
CERN is helping to align and test a 350-metre column to produce extra-pure argon for a dark-matter search experiment
During the 2017 LHC special runs, the LHCb experiment collected proton-proton and proton-neon data simultaneously for the first time
During a seminar at CERN, Klaus von Klitzing, the 1985 Physics Nobel Laureate, explained how the definition of the kilogram will be revolutionised
The Baby MIND neutrino detector, after being assembled and tested at CERN, is now ready to be shipped to Japan
CERN is developing a corrector magnet for the High-Luminosity project that has a peculiar design (to say nothing of its name…)
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for the detection of gravitational waves
High-temperature superconductors have the potential to revolutionise the field of particle physics
LHCb presented a measurement of the masses of two charmonium particles, with a precision that is unprecedented at a collider for this type of particle
CERN scientists welcomed the LIGO/Virgo gravitational waves community to look for synergies for future technologies
During the summer, the third of a series of short, 1.5-metre-long magnet models for the HL-LHC project was successfully tested
With the arrival of key detector components at CERN, the construction of protoDUNE’s single-phase module can now get started