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By blowing a radiofrequency (RF) ball through the accelerator’s beam pipe, technicians are identifying and repairing faulty RF fingers
A new animation from CERN's IT department shows how LHC data is collected and sent around the world for processing
On 28 April each year, the International Labour Organization and the World Health Organization organise a World Day for Safety and Health at Work
The inaugural TEDxCERN event will take place on 3 May 2013 in the Globe of Science and Innovation
An art installation at CMS Point 5 transforms physicists into the particles they study
As part of continual efforts to ensure the highest standards of radiation protection, CERN is modernizing its operational dosimetry system
Today Androulla Vassiliou is visiting CERN to meet young researchers supported by the EU Marie Curie Actions
The experiments release combined spin measurements for the Higgs boson for the first time
This week, technicians opened up the first interconnections between LHC magnets to work on accelerator components inside
Today at CERN, physicists and engineers from the LHC-injector accelerators presented their plans for upgrades during long shutdown
