Category: At CERN

  • Physics community to discuss latest results of the AMS experiment

    Geneva, 15 April 2015. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS1) collaboration will present today the latest results in its quest to understand the origin of cosmic rays and dark matter. These intriguing results will be shared and discussed during the “AMS days” starting today at CERN2, with many of the world’s leading theoretical physicists and principal

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  • Proton beams are back in the LHC

    Geneva, 5 April 2015. After two years of intense maintenance and consolidation, and several months of preparation for restart, the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, is back in operation. Today at 10.41am, a proton beam was back in the 27-kilometer ring, followed at 12.27pm by a second beam rotating

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  • A report from Council

    The success of the LS1, the restart of accelerators and the impact of the high value of the Swiss franc were discussed during CERN Council meeting.

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  • LHC experiments join forces to zoom in on the Higgs boson

    Geneva, 17 March 2015. Today during the 50th session of “Rencontres de Moriond” in La Thuile Italy, ATLAS and CMS presented for the first time a combination of their results on the mass of the Higgs boson. The combined mass of the Higgs boson is mH = 125.09 ± 0.24 (0.21 stat. ± 0.11 syst.)

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  • CineGlobe returns for its fifth edition at CERN

    Geneva, 16 March 2015. CERN1 will be hosting the next CineGlobe International Film Festival on 24 – 29 March. For its fifth edition, CineGlobe celebrates the theme of ‘Convergence’. This theme embraces the meeting of minds, methods and meaning of our times. “The festival is about the convergence of art, cinema and science. This year,

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  • Proposed cuts to Horizon 2020 are short-sighted

    Invest on sustaining the intellectual bridges that Europe has painstakingly put in place, says CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer

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  • CERN experiment brings precision to a cornerstone of particle physics

    Geneva, 11 February 2015. In a paper published yesterday in the journal Physical Review Letters, the COMPASS experiment at CERN1 reports a key measurement on the strong interaction. The strong interaction binds quarks into protons and neutrons, and protons and neutrons into the nuclei of all the elements from which matter is built. Inside those

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  • Helping CERN to benefit society

    Anne Richards describes the thinking behind a new foundation that is spreading CERN’s spirit of scientific curiosity

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  • Science for Good: Governance is the Key

    Incorporating sound scientific advice into governance structures is of of vital importance, says Rolf Heuer

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  • 60 more years of science for peace: carrying the message forward

    We can safely say that we’ve been successful in delivering the message of science for peace this year, says CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer

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