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New projects will be installed and commissioned at ATLAS and CMS to detect photon - photon collisions before the LHC restarts in May this year
The Etat de Genève, CERN and the Commune de Meyrin announce the start of work on the Esplanade des Particules in Meyrin
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The award is often referred to as the "Nobel Prize" of computing
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