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At the end of October, the last protons for Run 2 will circulate inside the LHC. The next protons will be injected only in the spring of 2021!
4,300 of you have taken part in the mobility survey. Your answers will help proposals to be developed over the coming months
On 11 September, CERN received a visit from Ana Brnabić, Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia
In July 2018, CERN took part in the WOMAD Festival near Bristol in the UK
This year, IdeaSquare will welcome LHCreate’s fourth edition on 18 and 19 October. Everyone at CERN is warmly invited to take part
CERN’s challenge based innovation (CBI) course is now being adopted by the University of Tampere in Finland
ATLAS searches for vector-like top quarks that could explain the Higgs boson’s small mass
Following up on some questions we received concerning our last Bulletin article, let us expand on the easiest way to lose your CERN password…
The experiment successfully accelerated electrons with plasma wakefields generated by protons, a world first
Since the recovery from the recent machine development period, the LHC has been in luminosity production mode, crawling its way up towards 60 fb-1
Ten years ago, protons circulated CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for the first time, marking the end of years of design and construction
