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  • CERN experiments report new Higgs boson measurements

    Geneva, 23 June 2014. In a paper published in the journal Nature Physics today, the CMS experiment at CERN1 reports new results on an important property of the Higgs particle, whose discovery was announced by the ATLAS and CMS experiments on 4 July 2012. The CMS result follows preliminary results from both experiments, which both

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  • CERN announces LHC restart schedule

    Geneva, 23 June 2014. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world, has started to get ready for its second three-year run. Cool down of the vast machine has already begun in preparation for research to resume early in 2015 following a long technical stop to prepare the

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  • A report from Council

    Next year’s budget, the MTP, CERN enlargement, and the pension fund: the June meeting of Council was a busy one, says Rolf Heuer

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  • CERN announces first winners of the Accelerate@CERN arts programme

    Geneva, 18 June 2014. CERN1 today announces the first winners of the Laboratory’s new Accelerate @ CERN programme – a one-month research award for artists2. The winners, from the fields of Visual Arts and Interactive Web Art, are drawn from the first two participating countries, Greece and Switzerland respectively. The winner of the Greek award,

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  • Zero tolerance to fraud at CERN

    CERN has a very clear policy on fraud: prevention, those reporting it are protected from recrimination, and zero-tolerance should fraud be uncovered

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  • CERN announces winners of its first beam line for schools competition

    Geneva, 6 June 2014. CERN1 today announced the winners of its first beam line for schools competition. Following almost 300 submissions from school groups around the world, two teams have been selected to come to CERN to carry out their own experiments at a CERN beam line. The winners are the “Odysseus’ Comrades” team from

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  • CERN’s ALPHA experiment measures charge of antihydrogen

    Geneva, 3 June 2014. In a paper published in the journal Nature Communications today, the ALPHA experiment at CERN1‘s Antiproton Decelerator (AD) reports a measurement of the electric charge of antihydrogen atoms, finding it to be compatible with zero to eight decimal places. Although this result comes as no surprise, since hydrogen atoms are electrically

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  • Who invented quarks?

    The official story is demonstrably wrong, says CERN theorist Álvaro de Rújula

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  • USA lays out strategic vision for particle physics

    The Particle Physics Project Prioritisation Panel is the US equivalent of the European Strategy update

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  • An email-encryption service born in Restaurant One

    Time spent at CERN has inspired a team of young computer scientists to launch ProtonMail, a new encrypted-email service

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