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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
For the last run before the two-year shutdown, the LHC is going beyond its original design specification and will collide protons with lead ions
At CERN today, the experiments at the Antiproton Decelerator presented updates on their work in 2012, and their hopes for 2013
At CERN today, European Commission representatives gave the green light to the continuation of the ENTERVISION network for imaging in particle therapy
Applications to the 2013 school, which will be held in Hungary, are open until 22 February
The school, on the theme "Mastering State-of-the-Art Computing", will will take place from 3-7 June 2013 in Split, Croatia