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A team in Japan has used advanced ISOL techniques to measure the energy needed to remove an electron from lawrencium, which lives for only 27 seconds
This year's school will be held in Bulgaria from 2-15 September. Register by 15 May 2015
The first of the 16 magnetic sectors in the main storage ring of the future light source in Jordan has successfully passed its tests at CERN
Some 340 people attended the inaugural FCC conference week in Washington DC to discuss the study status and plans for the future
The LHC started up again on Sunday for the first time in two years. LHC operators celebrated the smooth restart with champagne and chocolate eggs
Featuring some 33 talks about latest results and the future of cosmic-ray physics, CERN’s AMS Days will take place from 15-17 April
After two years of intense maintenance and consolidation the Large Hadron Collider is back in operation
The first beams could be circulating in the machine sometime between Saturday and Monday
Articles published by CERN authors in Elsevier Physics journals that are not covered by the SCOAP3 Open Access initiative will now be Open Access
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