Category: Experiments
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LHCb 2022 PhD Thesis and Early-Career Scientist Awards
On 14 June, LHCb, which comprises over 1000 authors and 400 PhD students, announced the winners of the 2022 PhD Thesis and Early-Career Scientist Awards
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AWAKE sows the seeds of controlled particle acceleration using plasma wakefields
The AWAKE collaboration has successfully seeded the self-modulation of a proton bunch, to control and stabilise plasma waves that can accelerate electrons with record gradients
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The new LHCb VELO
The VELO (Vertex Locator), the most recent addition to LHCb, was successfully installed a few weeks before the start of Run 3
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CERN approves new LHC experiment
SND@LHC, or Scattering and Neutrino Detector at the LHC, will be the facility’s ninth experiment
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ALPHA cools antimatter using laser light for the first time
The result opens the door to considerably more precise studies of the internal structure of antihydrogen and of how it behaves under the influence of gravity
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CLOUD at CERN reveals the role of iodine acids in atmospheric aerosol formation
The results suggest a new mechanism that could accelerate the loss of Arctic sea ice
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CLOUD at CERN reveals a new mechanism behind urban smog
The CLOUD collaboration has revealed a new mechanism that drives winter smog episodes in cities
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Watch live the new spacewalk for AMS
The third spacewalk will see astronauts Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan install the new cooling pump system for the AMS detector tracker
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Spacewalk for AMS: Watch live with CERN and ESA
Watch the first of several spacewalks for AMS live on Friday 15 November from 12.50 p.m. CET
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FASER: CERN approves new experiment to look for long-lived, exotic particles
The experiment, which will complement existing searches for dark matter at the LHC, will be operational in 2021