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Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed
Six years after its discovery, the Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks.
Filipino and Indian students win CERN Beamline for Schools competition 2018
The Beamline for Schools contest is open to high-school students from around the world who want to experience the life of a scientist
Major work starts to boost the luminosity of the LHC
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is officially entering a new stage. Today, a ground-breaking ceremony at CERN celebrates the start of the civil-engineering work for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC): a new milestone in CERN’s history.
The Higgs boson reveals its affinity for the top quark
New results from the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC reveal how strongly the Higgs boson interacts with the heaviest known elementary particle, the top quark, corroborating our understanding of the Higgs and setting constraints on new physics.
World’s first crabbing of a proton beam
CERN successfully tests crab cavities, a key component of the High-Luminosity LHC
OPERA collaboration presents its final results on neutrino oscillations. All data publicly available on the CERN Open Data Portal
The OPERA collaboration reports the observation of a total of 10 candidate events for a muon to tau-neutrino conversion, in what are the very final results of the experiment.
A new era of precision for antimatter research
The ALPHA experiment at CERN has measured a light-induced transition in antihydrogen with unprecedented precision
CERN invites photographers to go behind the scenes
On 1 June 2018, 20 photographers will be given an exclusive opportunity to explore the world’s largest particle physics laboratory
Arts at CERN announces the winners of the Collide awards
Artists from all over the world are invited to spend time at CERN and work alongside particle physicists and engineers
First high-precision LHC measurement of W boson mass
In a paper published today in the European Physical Journal C, the ATLAS Collaboration reports the first high-precision measurement of W boson mass