Category: At CERN
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AMS experiment marks one year in space
Geneva, 25 July 2012. CERN1 today marked the first year in space for the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) with a visit from the crew of the shuttle mission, STS-134, that successfully delivered AMS to the the International Space Station (ISS) just over a year ago. Launched on 16 May last year, the detector was already
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Claude Dangoisse (1956-2012)
An operator of the Meyrin Control Room for almost 10 years, who later led the telephone-exchange infrastructure at CERN
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Hannes Schwarzbauer (1950-2012)
Valued member of the Data Handling division who used his command of languages to help users with technical queries
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CERN and Ars Electronica launch open call for the second Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN
Geneva and Linz, 18 July 2012. CERN1 and Ars Electronica2 today launch an open call for artists working in the digital domain to apply for the second Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN3. The winner will receive a fully funded residency4 at CERN and Ars Electronica to create new dimensions in their artistic practice by encounters with
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European science champions score an early goal for cloud computing
Geneva, 9 July 2012. “Helix Nebula – the science cloud“, set up earlier this year to support the massive IT requirements of European scientists and create a cloud-computing market for the public sector in Europe, has today announced the initial deployment of its first flagship applications in high-energy physics, molecular biology and natural-disaster risk management.
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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