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Sharing CERN’s expertise in big data with the biomedical community
Four decades of gluons
How a walk through CERN’s corridors helped lead to the discovery of the gluon forty years ago at the DESY laboratory
ATLAS homes in on magnetic monopoles
The ATLAS collaboration has placed some of the tightest limits yet on the production rate of hypothetical particles known as magnetic monopoles
The proton, a century on
A century after physicist Ernest Rutherford published work proving the existence of the proton, much remains to be learnt about this ubiquitous particle
CERN pays tribute to Murray Gell-Mann
The Nobel laureate, who coined the name “quarks”, passed away on 24 May
Lock the Planck: the kilogram has a new definition
From today, all SI base units will be defined based on natural constants, with the kilogram the last to join the ranks
LS2 Report: consolidating the energy extraction systems of LHC superconducting magnet circuits
The energy extraction systems absorb the energy of the LHC magnets in case of a quench. Their consolidation is conducted in collaboration with two Russian institutes
Successful tests of a cooler way to transport electricity
A new superconducting electrical transmission line for the High-Luminosity LHC uses new materials, a new cooling system and unprecedented technologies