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Last month, indie rockers Deerhoof battled with the noise of CERN’s magnet test facility in honour of the LHC’s ramp up to 13 TeV
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The proof-of-principle experiment aims to use protons to generate powerful wakefields to accelerate an electron beam
The final step of the second scrubbing run has successfully been completed
The HiRadMat facility is using SPS beams to test materials and components in extreme conditions
During this week's planned technical stop, engineers modify the electrical system that protects magnet components from high current
This year the CERN Summer Student Programme welcomed 280 students from 83 countries
At the 2015 LHCP conference the collaborations presented for the first time combined measurements of many properties of the Higgs boson
The LHCb experiment has measured decays of B mesons that have shown deviations from the predictions of the Standard Model
As the LHC Physics conference gets underway in St Petersburg, it’s a good time to take stock of where things stand with run-2