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Testing of the LHC's main magnet circuits - dipole and quadrupole - has been completed
Watch Jean-Phillipe Tock of the Technology department explain how CERN technicians are upgrading interconnections on the LHC
Watch Jean-Phillipe Tock of the Technology department explain how CERN technicians are upgrading interconnections on the Large Hadron Collider
The inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering went to five engineers whose work led to the internet and the World Wide Web
Watch the webcast of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering at 1pm GMT
Eighty years ago today, Physical Review published a paper by Carl Anderson announcing the discovery of the positron – the electron’s antiparticle
With two and a half times more data analysed than in July last year, ATLAS and CMS find that the new particle looks more and more like a Higgs boson
The 1st International Conference on Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV) will be held in Lecce, Italy from 6-8 May 2013
The ATLAS collaboration has just released four animations showing how signals of new particles can emerge from LHC collision data
The LHCb experiment at CERN reports precise new measurements—but leaves open the question of why our matter-dominated universe exists
Watch students and teachers from two schools in central Poland searching proton collisions from the LHC for signs of new particles
The LHCb collaboration has recently announced new results for a parameter that measures the CP violation effect in particles containing charm quarks
