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Two teams of high-school students from the UK and Poland had the opportunity to conduct their own experiments at a fully equipped CERN beamline
New results presented by the LHCb collaboration on the decay of particles containing a “charm” quark delve deeper into the matter-antimatter asymmetry
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A special proton-proton run with larger beam sizes at the interaction point is intended to probe the p-p elastic scattering regime at small angles
Established in 2013 CERN's Neutrino Platform ensures Europe’s participation in next-generation long- and short-baseline neutrino experiments in Japan
Innovative technologies for next-generation neutrino detectors are currently being tested in the CERN Neutrino Platform project WA105
The production of the new niobium-tin cables for the high-performance superconducting magnets of the HL-LHC is now in full swing at CERN
As Romania has now become a Member State of CERN, Romanian scientists share their thoughts about this new era of partnership for their community
The LHCb collaboration announces the observation of four “exotic” particles from its analysis of the LHC data
CERN celebrated the fourth anniversary of the historical Higgs boson announcement with special pizzas
The ICARUS detector is being refurbished at CERN, before being sent to the US in search of sterile neutrinos