Category: At CERN
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LEP shuts down after eleven years of forefront research
Geneva, 8 November 2000. After extended consultation with the appropriate scientific committees, CERN1‘s Director-General Luciano Maiani announced today that the LEP accelerator had been switched off for the last time. LEP was scheduled to close at the end of September 2000 but tantalising signs of possible new physics led to LEP’s run being extended until
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Physics in the Spotlight
CERN, ESA and ESO put Physics on Stage Geneva, 18 October 2000. Can you imagine how much physics is in a simple match of ping-pong, in throwing a boomerang, or in a musical concert? Physics is all around us and governs our lives. The World-Wide Web and mobile communication are only two examples of technologies
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Poland at CERN
Geneva, 17 October 2000. On 17 October 2000, the second Polish industrial and technological exhibition opens at CERN1. The first one was held five years ago and nine of the companies that were present then have come back again this year. Six of those companies were awarded contracts with CERN in 1995. Three Polish officials
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CERN celebrates LEP – the accelerator that changed the face of particle physics
Geneva, 9 October 2000. Members of government from around the world gathered at CERN1 on 9 October to celebrate the achievements of the Large Electron Positron collider (LEP), the Laboratory’s flagship particle accelerator. Over the eleven years of its operational lifetime, LEP has not only added greatly to mankind’s pool of knowledge about the Universe,
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The LEP story
Geneva, 9 October 2000. The LEP story begins in the late 1970s when CERN1 Member State physicists got together to discuss the long term future of high energy physics in Europe. A new picture of fundamental interactions, unifying the electromagnetic and weak forces, was emerging, and LEP would be the machine to study it. After
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CERN is first to demonstrate a 10 Gigabit/sec network with four major computer manufacturers
Geneva, 15 September 2000. CERN1 has made another important step forward in high-speed computing and state of the art networking. On 15 September a Gigabyte System Network (GSN) network with a capacity of 10 Gbit per second ramped up successfully at CERN, connecting together computers from different computer companies (Compaq, IBM, SGI and Sun). It
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LEP shutdown postponed by one month
Geneva, 14 September 2000. On 14 September 2000 CERN1‘s Director General Prof. Luciano Maiani, after a recommendation from the LEP Experiments Committee and the CERN Research Board, decided to extend the experimental run of the LEP accelerator until the 2nd November 2000. It was originally planned to conclude LEP’s eleven year period of physics research
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Start-up of CERN’s New Antimatter Factory
Geneva, 10 August 2000. CERN1‘s unique new antimatter factory, the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) has begun delivering antiprotons to experiments. These experiments will study antimatter in depth to determine if there is a difference between it and ordinary matter. Any difference between antimatter and matter would be extremely interesting since it is not yet understood why
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Signatures of the Invisible
Geneva, 29 June 2000. “Signatures of the Invisible” is an unique collaboration between contemporary artists and contemporary physicists which has the potential to help redefine the relationship between science and art. “Signatures of the Invisible” is jointly organised by the London Institute – the world’s largest college of art and design and CERN1, the world’s
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Theoretical physicists take stock at CERN conference
Geneva, 27 June 2000. On Monday 26 June Luciano Maiani, Director-General of CERN1, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, opened the “Supersymmetry 2000” conference which is taking place at CERN in Geneva this week. Many of the world’s top physicists are gathering to present their work and discuss possible signatures of new physics beyond the