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The ASACUSA experiment at CERN reported new precision measurement of the mass of the antiproton relative to that of the electron
CERN will offer two residential programmes for high school physics teachers
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The ICARUS detector will be soon inserted into its own cryostat and shipped to Chicago
Last week saw the end of proton-proton physics operation for 2016 following a successful year of running at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV
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The CERN Accelerator School (CAS) and the Wigner Research Centre for Physics held an Introduction to Accelerator Physics course in Budapest
CERN’s IdeaSquare is launching a new on-line journal called CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation or CIJ
The HR department has adopted a new recruitment tool that will enhance the recruitment process both for CERN and for candidates
CERN colleagues are warmly invited to help the Knowledge Transfer team welcome visitors and advertise CERN’s science and technology
Measurements of the production rates of atmospheric aerosol particles by CERN’s CLOUD experiment put global climate projections on more solid ground
Michel Della Negra, Peter Jenni and Tejinder Virdee, former spokespersons of ATLAS and CMS, will be presented with the 2017 W.K.H. Panofsky Prize