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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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  • The slings and arrows of LHC restart schedules

    Against a backdrop of great progress in the powering tests for running at 6.5 TeV, a short cicuit is causing a delay, writes Rolf Heuer

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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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  • Keeping HL-LHC accountable

    This week saw the cost and schedule of the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) and LHC Injectors Upgrade (LIU) projects come under close scrutiny

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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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  • Subatomic: Photographs and particle tracks

    A new documentary made in collaboration with Arts @ CERN explores the overlap between photography and particle physics

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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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  • Seeing is believing

    Lucio Rossi reflects on how particle accelerators extend our sense of sight

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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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