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CERN signs agreement to provide technology and expert training for a new business-incubation centre in Thessaloniki
Don’t miss a Google+ hangout with last year’s winners and CERN scientists on 4 December 2014 at 5pm CET
An overview of the experiment written by physicists Monica Dunford and Peter Jenni has been published on the peer-reviewed website Scholarpedia
An article about ATLAS is the first in a series on experimental high-energy physics to appear on the peer-reviewed website
New CERN-KEK offices to increase the collaborative effort on accelerator R&D and construction projects
Weekend tests with beams brought protons just short of the LHC
More than 110 experts from all over the world gathered in Tsukuba, Japan for the 4th Joint HiLumi LHC/ LARP Annual Meeting
The award-winning OpenStack cloud at CERN will grow from 75,000 to over 100,000 processing cores for LHC Run 2
The Open Data Portal makes data from real collision events at the LHC openly available to all
New CMS software allows Masterclass students to analyse events from the LHC
The new ALICE Run Control Centre (ARC) implements the best and newest solutions for its shift workers and expert operators
The particles, known as the Xi_b'- and Xi_b*-, were predicted to exist by the quark model but had never been seen before
