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The 9th International Masterclasses in particle physics kicked off today, linking high school students around the world by video-conference
The LHCb collaboration has now reported a new analysis of the decay chain of an unconventional hadron, the X(3872)
On 24 February 1983 the journal Physics Letters B published a paper by the UA1 collaboration describing the discovery of the W boson
On 24 February 1983 the journal <em>Physics Letters B</em> published a paper by the UA1 collaboration describing the discovery of the W boson
A new safety system will bring the standard of personnel radiation protection at the PS into line with that of the LHC
The Linear Collider Collaboration unites global development work for a next-generation particle collider
Each week CERN people answer questions live on YouTube in Hangout with CERN. Give feedback for the chance to win tickets to see comedian Eddie Izzard
In a year where the LHC delivered nearly as much data in a week as it did previously in a month, the ATLAS experiment went from strength to strength
In the recent lead-proton run at the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment took proton-ion data for the first time
The Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment took proton-ion data for the first time last month
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The proton-lead run was an unqualified success and a testament to painstaking preparation by the ion team