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The LHCb has announced a precise measurement of the unitarity triangle angle β
Sergio Bertolucci presents CERN's strategy for neutrino physics today at 11am. Watch the webcast
The CCC is the nerve centre of the CERN beam systems. The people at the five consoles work 24/7 to get everything ready for Run 2
Student teams have just one month to submit their proposals to conduct an experiment at a working CERN beamline
Vote online now for a Lego replica of the LHC, created by an ATLAS PhD student
Watch a timelapse video of the huge LHC detectors ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb preparing to start up again
The experimental cavern played host to hundreds of young guests, who visited the detector during the last major CMS outreach event of long shutdown 1
Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics has started a new future in rare isotopes
Donations are helping CERN experts to turn KiCad software into an efficient tool for designing open-source hardware
The laboratory's accelerator chain is supplying an experiment with argon ions for the first time
At the start of this year, openlab officially entered its fifth phase, which will run until the end of 2017
Two years ago, CERN's accelerators and experiments shut down for maintenance, to prepare the LHC for running at 13 TeV