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LHC experiments delve deeper into precision

The world’s particle physics community is meeting this week in Venice (Italy) for the EPS International Conference on High Energy Physics

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At CERN
11 July, 2017

The LHCb experiment is charmed to announce observation of a new particle with two heavy quarks

Geneva, 6 July 2017. Today at the EPS Conference on High Energy Physics in Venice, the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has reported the observation of Ξcc++ (Xicc++) a new particle containing two charm quarks and one up quark.

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At CERN
06 July, 2017
At CERN
Press release
06 July, 2017

Slovenia becomes CERN Associate Member State

On 4 July 2017, the Republic of Slovenia became an Associate Member State of CERN in pre-stage to Membership

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At CERN
05 July, 2017

Lithuania to become Associate Member of CERN

Today, the representatives of CERN and of the Government of Lithuania signed an Agreement admitting Lithuania as an Associate Member of CERN. The Government of India still needs to notify CERN of its final approval for the Agreement to enter into force.

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At CERN
27 June, 2017
At CERN
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27 June, 2017

Two new teams of high-school physicists selected to run experiments at CERN

CERN today announced the winners of its 2017 Beamline for Schools competition. “Charging Cavaliers” from Canada and “TCO-ASA” from Italy were selected from a total of 180 teams from 43 countries around the world.

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At CERN
13 June, 2017
At CERN
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13 June, 2017

Follow the fantastic voyage of the ICARUS detector

Watch our Facebook Live to learn more about the world’s largest neutrino particle hunter and how it will journey to Fermilab

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Experiments
12 June, 2017

Kick-off for the 2017 LHC physics season

Data-taking has started again at the LHC: the experiments are continuing their exploration of physics at the unprecedented energy of 13 TeV.

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Physics
23 May, 2017

Pioneering SESAME light source officially opened

Allan, Jordan, 16 May 2017. The SESAME light source was today officially opened by His Majesty King Abdullah II.

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At CERN
16 May, 2017
At CERN
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16 May, 2017

CERN celebrates completion of Linac 4, its brand new linear particle accelerator

At a ceremony today, CERN inaugurated its linear accelerator, Linac 4, the newest accelerator acquisition since the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

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At CERN
09 May, 2017
At CERN
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09 May, 2017

CERN and the American Physical Society sign an open access agreement for SCOAP3

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the American Physical Society (APS) signed an agreement today for SCOAP3 – the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics.

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At CERN
27 April, 2017
At CERN
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27 April, 2017