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Britain at CERN from 22 to 25 november
Geneva, 22 November 1994. Thirty-two British hi-tech companies present their products at this new industrial exhibition at CERN1 which takes place from 22 to 25 November, 1994. The exhibition offers British companies the opportunity to display their products in fields that are of immediate importance to the scientists, engineers and technicians working at CERN, and
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CERN launches new programme with highest energy ever
Geneva, 21 November 1994. CERN1‘s first beams of lead ions – the highest energy beams ever produced by an accelerator – are now ready for experimentation. The new heavy ions facility also opens up a fresh period of research for the Laboratory in this field. This development is an important step towards understanding the matter
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EC signs new Cooperation Arrangement with CERN
Geneva, 10 October 1994. On 10 October 1994, Professor Antonio RUBERTI, Commissioner for Research, Development, Education and Training, and Professor Christopher LLEWELLYN SMITH, Director-General of CERN1 signed an administrative arrangement opening the way for tighter scientific and technological cooperation between the European Union and CERN. The signing ceremony was followed by the first meeting of
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CERN celebrates 40th Anniversary
Geneva, 8 September 1994. On 29 September 1954 the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)1 was created when sufficient ratifications of the Convention establishing CERN* were obtained from Member States. CERN’s goals were clearly set out in Article II of this Convention: “The Organization shall provide for collaboration among European States in nuclear research of
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European Supercomputer installed at CERN
Geneva, 25 August 1994. A new scaleable parallel computer based on European High Performance Computing (HPC) technology has been installed in the CERN1 computing centre. The initiative to support the development of this new style computer came from the European Union’s (EU) Esprit Programme (European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Technology). CERN
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CERN advances towards approval of LHC
Geneva, 24 June 1994. The CERN1 Council, where the representatives of the 19 Member States of the Organization decide on scientific programmes and financial resources, held its 100th session on 24 June under the chairmanship of Professor Hubert Curien (France). After a week of meetings which covered in detail the scientific potential, budgeting and world
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The Large Hadron Collider
The Development of the Project Geneva, 17 June 1994. As early as 1977, during preparatory discussions for building CERN1‘s Large Electron Positron collider (LEP), it was clear that excavating the LEP tunnel would make more economic sense if it could be reused for a successor machine. Thus, while LEP was being designed and built in
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LHC the Physics
Physics for the 21st Century Geneva, 17 June 1994. On 24 June 1994, delegates representing CERN1‘s 19 European Member States will decide whether to approve the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a huge scientific instrument which will propel particle physics research way into the 21st century. The LHC, a particle accelerator built of
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The LHC, A world project
Geneva, 17 June 1994. Since the mid-1980s the number of scientists from all over the world using CERN1‘s facilities has increased enormously. Currently more than 6,000 users, over half of the planet’s high-energy physicists, carry out fundamental research at CERN. This user community is living proof that CERN welcomes inter- regional collaboration which benefits all
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The LHC, the technological challenge
Geneva, 17 June 1994. Physicists at CERN1 talk almost casually about recreating conditions that existed only 10-12 second – a millionth of a millionth of a second – after the ‘Big Bang’, when our Universe might have been no bigger than a pinhead! This is however exactly what the high energy proton-proton collisions in the