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New CERN facility can help medical research into cancer
Today, the new CERN-MEDICIS facility has produced radioisotopes for medical research for the first time. MEDICIS (Medical Isotopes Collected from ISOLDE) aims to provide a wide range of radioisotopes, some of which can be produced only at CERN.
First light for pioneering SESAME light source
At 10:50 yesterday morning, scientists at the pioneering SESAME light source saw First Monochromatic Light through the XAFS/XRF spectroscopy beamline, signalling the start of the laboratory’s experimental programme.
The BASE experiment breaks its own precision measurement record of antiproton’s magnetic moment
The BASE collaboration publishes today in Nature a new measurement of the magnetic moment of the antiproton, with a precision exceeding that of the proton.
CERN openlab tackles ICT challenges of High-Luminosity LHC
CERN openlab has published a white paper identifying the major ICT challenges that face CERN and other ‘big science’ projects in the coming years
ATLAS observes direct evidence of light-by-light scattering
Physicists from ATLAS at CERN have found first direct evidence of high energy light-by-light scattering
The ALPHA experiment explores the secrets of antimatter
The ALPHA experiment at CERN’s Antiproton Decelerator reports the first observation of the hyperfine structure of antihydrogen
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
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.
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
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.