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The recently installed AEgIS experiment will examine the effect of gravity on antimatter
Work is progressing on new technologies that would under pin an upgrade of the LHC in 10 year’s time
On 25 January 1983, CERN physicists announced to the world the discovery of the W boson, an elementary particle that carries the weak force
Now half way through its pilot phase, the Helix Nebula project is moving ahead with new organizations coming on board
A study published in collaboration with ISOLDE-CERN confirms that certain terbium isotopes are effective in diagnosing and treating tumours
There are only five days left to apply for the chance to join CERN as a summer student in Geneva, and work on some of the world's biggest experiments
There are only five days left to apply for the chance to join CERN as a summer student and work on some of the world's biggest experiments
The ALICE experiment will be watching the collisions closely to tease out the effects of lead ions from the effects of the plasma
The LHC starts the New Year facing a new challenge: proton-lead collisions in the last month before the shutdown in mid-February
Accelerator team declares "stable beams" as lead ions collide with protons in first LHC physics beams of 2013
Preparations have been progressing steadily at CMS to receive collisions between protons and lead ions
A new ion trap has been integrated into ISOLTRAP, the ISOLDE experiment that measures the mass of short-lived nuclides