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The project was awarded "Best Online Event" at an awards ceremony in Berlin, Germany, last week
The switch - a test for a longer proton-lead run scheduled for January to February 2013 - presented numerous technical challenges
The came for motivation, for answers, and 'because it's CERN' – participants in the July 2012 programme share their experiences
Some 500 particle physicists meeting in Krakow, Poland, this week debated the long-term future of their field at the CERN Council Open Symposium
Today's HR report shows a beautiful round number of CERN personnel
The LHC has been in luminosity production mode for a couple of weeks - the total integrated luminosity for the year has passed 14 inverse femtobarns
A two-day event in building 500 offers the opportunity to meet key publishers and to browse and buy books at significant discounts
A model developed by a Belgian student has helped ISOLDE to perform sensitive measurements of franconium, one of the world's rarest elements
The collaborations published the latest in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the journal <em>Physics Letters B</em>
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