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Professor Sijbrand de Jong elected as next President of CERN Council
CERN Council today announced the election of Professor Sijbrand de Jong as its 22nd President for a period of one year renewable twice, with a mandate starting on 1 January 2016.
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One month to go until TEDxCERN “breaks the rules”
On Friday, 9 October, CERN will be hosting a TEDx conference for the third year running, this time on the theme of “Breaking the Rules”.
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ATLAS and CMS experiments shed light on Higgs properties
ATLAS and CMS Collaborations present for the first time combined measurements of many of its properties, at the third annual Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference (LHCP 2015)
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The ALICE experiment at CERN makes precise comparison of light nuclei and antinuclei
The result, published today in Nature Physics, confirms a fundamental symmetry of nature to an unprecedented precision for light nuclei.
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The BASE experiment at CERN compares protons and antiprotons with high precision
The most precise comparison of the charge-to-mass ratio of the proton to that of its antimatter equivalent, the antiproton
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The latest results from the LHC experiments are presented in Vienna
Geneva/Vienna, 27 July 2015. The world particle-physics community has convened in Vienna for the 2015 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2015), where the latest results in the field are being presented and discussed. These include the first results from Run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN1, which are being
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CERN’s LHCb experiment reports observation of exotic pentaquark particles
Geneva, 14 July 2015. Today, the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has reported the discovery of a class of particles known as pentaquarks. The collaboration has submitted a paper reporting these findings to the journal Physical Review Letters. “The pentaquark is not just any new particle,” said LHCb spokesperson Guy Wilkinson. “It represents
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CERN announces winners of its 2015 beamline for schools competition
Geneva, 15 June 2015. CERN1 today announced the winners of its 2015 beamline for schools competition. Two teams of high-school students have been selected to travel to CERN in September to carry out their own experiments using a CERN accelerator beam. The winners, the “Leo4G” team from Liceo Scientifico Leonardo da Vinci School in Florence,