Category: Experiments

  • What’s in store for the CMS detector over the next two years?

    What’s in store for the CMS detector over the next two years?

    With the LHC switched off for a two-year technical stop, CMS is undergoing significant maintenance and upgrades

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  • Wheels in motion: what’s planned for ATLAS in the next two years?

    Wheels in motion: what’s planned for ATLAS in the next two years?

    Enhancing ATLAS’s detection capabilities in preparation for the LHC restart

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  • Upgrading ALICE: What’s in store for the next two years?

    Upgrading ALICE: What’s in store for the next two years?

    Major internal improvements await the ALICE detector during CERN’s Long Shutdown 2 (LS2)

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  • First particle tracks seen in prototype for international neutrino experiment

    First particle tracks seen in prototype for international neutrino experiment

    The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks, signaling the start of a new chapter in the story of the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).

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  • The New Small Wheels set ATLAS on track for high luminosity

    The New Small Wheels set ATLAS on track for high luminosity

    An upgrade to the “Small Wheels”, the innermost sections of the ATLAS muon end-cap system, will help ATLAS cope with the conditions at the HL-LHC

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  • ISOLDE peers into the world of DNA

    ISOLDE peers into the world of DNA

    Researchers at CERN’s ISOLDE facility have used an ultrasensitive variant of NMR spectroscopy to study DNA interactions

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  • First high-precision LHC measurement of W boson mass

    First high-precision LHC measurement of W boson mass

    In a paper published today in the European Physical Journal C, the ATLAS Collaboration reports the first high-precision measurement of W boson mass

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  • CMS releases more than one petabyte of open data

    CMS releases more than one petabyte of open data

    This release includes datasets that were used to discover the Higgs boson

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  • First cosmic-ray results from CALET telescope on ISS

    First cosmic-ray results from CALET telescope on ISS

    Having docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on 25 August 2015, CALET is carrying out a full science programme

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  • Meet ISOLDE Live: Celebrate 50 years of physics at ISOLDE

    Join us on Facebook at 14:00 CEST from the ISOLDE control centre, for a chance to have your questions answered by our scientists

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