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Around 200 pieces of unique historic importance form CERN’s scientific heritage object collection. It is time to update and enrich it
The CERN Alumni Programme will offer unique networking opportunities for all its members
After declaring stable beams, now it’s the period of scrubbing and intensity ramp-up, until 2556 bunches per beam will circulate in the machine
Two papers published today in Nature review recent flavour measurements from the LHCb experiment that are at odds with theoretical predictions
The LHC has been accelerating more and more protons, and to allow the machine to reach its maximum intensity, it will undergo a thorough scrubbing.
The Horizon 2020 project “Accelerator Research and Innovation for European Science and Society” (ARIES) officially began on 1 May 2017
For the sake of software quality, the IT department provides you and your clients with a few simple tools to save precious time and cerebral pain
The first High-School Students Internship Programme at CERN was launched in May 2017
A new shield septum magnet is being developed to protect the FCC machine from the beam’s extremely high energy
Details from the 2017 LHCp conference held in Shanghai
Ten years after it was approved, CERN’s new accelerator is officially inaugurated
The first collisions with stable beams were delivered to the LHC experiments on 23 May, after three weeks of commissioning with beams