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Important information about the 2020 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics
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Arts at CERN announces two residencies for Swiss artists: Collide Pro Helvetia and Simetría
The LHC’s proton run came to an end on Wednesday 24 October with an excellent result of 160 fb-1 of data accumulated since the start of 2015
Halfway between launch and start-up, what is the status of the High-Luminosity LHC project?
An important protection component for the High-Luminosity LHC has been successfully tested at the HiRadMat facility
What happens when scientists and artists collide? Artworks resulting from three years of collaboration between physicists and Collide International artists-in-residence at CERN, will be exhibited at Broken Symmetries in FACT Liverpool.
Find out how the laser physics recognised by the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics opens up new perspectives in particle physics
As well as making data from particle physics research public, the CMS experiment has developed additional tools in github to be used in schools
