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André Petermann (1922 – 2011)
Early member of the CERN Theory Division who pioneered the renormalization group, paving the way for the modern theory of phase transitions
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LHC to run at 4 TeV per beam in 2012
Geneva, 13 February 2012. CERN1 today announced that the LHC will run with a beam energy of 4 TeV this year, 0.5 TeV higher than in 2010 and 2011. This decision was taken by CERN management following the annual performance workshop held in Chamonix last week and a report delivered today by the external CERN
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Chamonix: Looking forward to 2012
The experiments’ desiderata for the year included either discovery or exclusion of the Higgs boson
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Chamonix: LHC performance review kicks off
The first day of the LHC performance workshop was devoted to a critical review of 2011, with suggestions for improvements to the beams and hardware
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Chamonix: Challenges for the High Luminosity LHC
The final day of the workshop saw examination of the challenges of the High-Luminosity LHC an a look at the state of R&D for the new magnets required
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Serbia set to become Associate Member State of CERN
Geneva, 16 December 2011. At its 161st meeting at CERN1 today, the CERN Council unanimously voted to admit the Republic of Serbia to Associate Membership as the pre-stage to Membership of CERN. This status will come into force following signature of the related Agreement by the two parties and notification to CERN of ratification by
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European particle physics plots course for the future
Geneva, 15 December 2011. CERN1 Council today announced an Open Symposium to be held on 10-13 September 2012 at Cracow, Poland for the purpose of updating the European Strategy for Particle Physics. Council adopted Europe’s current strategy for the field in July 2006 with an understanding that it be brought up to date at appropriate
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ATLAS and CMS experiments present Higgs search status
Geneva, 13 December 2011. In a seminar held at CERN1 today, the ATLAS2 and CMS3 experiments presented the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. Their results are based on the analysis of considerably more data than those presented at the summer conferences, sufficient to make significant progress in the search for
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First Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN laureate announced
Geneva, 6 December 2011. The first Prix1 Ars Electronica2 Collide @ CERN3 was today awarded to the 28-year-old German artist, Julius Von Bismarck for the quality of his ideas and his ability to make playful creative collisions between the arts and science. With a growing international reputation for his diverse and experimental artistic practice, Von