Category: At CERN
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CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson
Geneva, 4 July 2012. At a seminar held at CERN1 today as a curtain raiser to the year’s major particle physics conference, ICHEP2012 in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented their latest preliminary results in the search for the long sought Higgs particle. Both experiments observe a new particle in the mass region around
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Dieter Möhl (1936–2012)
Accelerator physicist who demonstrated by the Initial Cooling Experiment (ICE) that stochastic cooling was a viable proposition
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CERN to give update on Higgs search as curtain raiser to ICHEP conference
Geneva, 22 June 2012. CERN1 will hold a scientific seminar at 9:00CEST on 4 July to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson. At this seminar, coming on the eve of this year’s major particle physics conference, ICHEP, in Melbourne, the ATLAS and CMS experiments will deliver the preliminary results of
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Jean-Paul Diss (1928-2012)
Medical practitioner and gifted musician who set up and then ran the CERN medical service
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CERN adopts new scheme for easy access to intellectual property
Geneva, 4 June 2012. CERN has adopted a new approach to knowledge transfer under the label of CERN Easy Access IP, an initiative to make it easier for businesses and entrepreneurs to access intellectual property generated at CERN in the course of its research programme. CERN Easy Access IP involves granting a free license for
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CERN welcomes its first choreographer in residence
Geneva, 14 May 2012. Space, time and gravity are under the cultural spotlight at CERN1 this month with the arrival of Gilles Jobin, the laboratory’s first choreographer in residence and winner of the Collide@CERN Geneva2 prize, which is supported by the Canton and City of Geneva. Jobin is an internationally renowned Swiss choreographer with a
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New phase of CERN openlab to tackle exascale IT challenges for science
Geneva, 9 May 2012. The fourth phase of CERN openlab was officially launched during a meeting of its board of sponsors taking place at CERN1 on 8 and 9 May. CERN openlab is a unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading information technology companies HP, Intel, Oracle, Siemens, with contribution from Huawei for this new