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The European Network for Light Ion Therapy (ENLIGHT) was founded ten years ago to build a community of professionals in the field of hadrontherapy
Grand Prize winner Brittany Wenger visited the Antiproton Decelerator and the Computing Centre among other areas
Grand Prize winner Brittany Wenger visited key sites including the Antiproton Decelerator and the Computing Centre
Physicists can participate in the CMS experiment round the clock from a remote operations centre at Fermilab, near Chicago in the US
Last week, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, ex-Director-General Chris Llewellyn Smith talked to the CERN visual media service
The International School of Trigger and Data Acquisition will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece in February 2013
The ATLAS collaboration is preparing a series of upgrades to their detector for the coming long shutdown of the LHC
The ALPHA-2 team is installing the final components for their new antimatter experiment, which will replace the current ALPHA set-up
Proposals to build colliders that churn out the new Higgs-like particle are gathering momentum. But what would these colliders look like?
The number of the events the detector can handle per bunch crossing is limited. Even so, LHCb wants to integrate as much luminosity as possible
An all-day seminar at CERN today will celebrate the career of the ex-Director-General of CERN
