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ATLAS finds evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay

The ATLAS experiment at CERN finds evidence of a rare Higgs boson Dalitz decay to two leptons and a photon

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Physics
08 February, 2021

CLOUD at CERN reveals the role of iodine acids in atmospheric aerosol formation

The results suggest a new mechanism that could accelerate the loss of Arctic sea ice

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Experiments
05 February, 2021
Experiments
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05 February, 2021

Potassium nucleus loses some of its magic

A new study at ISOLDE finds no signature of a “magic” number of neutrons in potassium-51, challenging the proposed magic nature of nuclei with 32 neutrons

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Physics
29 January, 2021
Physics
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29 January, 2021

BASE opens up new possibilities in the search for cold dark matter

The Baryon Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) at CERN’s Antimatter Factory has set new limits on how easily axion-like particles could turn into photons

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Physics
26 January, 2021

A new way to look for gravitational waves

A duo of researchers from CERN and DESY show how data from radio telescopes can be used to search for high-frequency gravitational waves

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Physics
14 January, 2021
Physics
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14 January, 2021

CMS collaboration releases its first open data from heavy-ion collisions

CMS data recorded in 2010 and 2011 from lead–lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider have been released into the public domain for the first time

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Knowledge sharing
13 January, 2021
Knowledge sharing
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13 January, 2021

Relive 2020 at CERN

Highlights of the year at CERN, from engineering and accelerator milestones to particle physics results and much more

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Knowledge sharing
18 December, 2020
Knowledge sharing
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18 December, 2020

NA63 makes crystal-clear study of radiation reaction

The NA63 collaboration has made a high-precision study of the phenomenon of radiation reaction, using particle beams and crystals

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Physics
22 September, 2020

CMS experiment at CERN releases fifth batch of open data

All research-quality data from proton–proton collisions recorded by CMS during the first two years of LHC operation are now publicly available

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Knowledge sharing
27 August, 2020
Knowledge sharing
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27 August, 2020

LHCb discovers first “open-charm” tetraquark

The particle, which has been called X(2900), was detected by analysing all the data LHCb has recorded so far from collisions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

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Physics
21 August, 2020