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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.

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Physics
28 August, 2018
Physics
Press release
28 August, 2018

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

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At CERN
20 June, 2018
At CERN
Press release
20 June, 2018

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.

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Accelerators
15 June, 2018
Accelerators
Press release
15 June, 2018

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.

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At CERN
04 June, 2018
At CERN
Press release
04 June, 2018

World’s first crabbing of a proton beam

CERN successfully tests crab cavities, a key component of the High-Luminosity LHC

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Engineering
29 May, 2018
Engineering
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29 May, 2018

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.

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At CERN
22 May, 2018
At CERN
Press release
22 May, 2018

A new era of precision for antimatter research

The ALPHA experiment at CERN has measured a light-induced transition in antihydrogen with unprecedented precision

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Physics
04 April, 2018

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

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At CERN
26 March, 2018

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

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At CERN
22 March, 2018

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

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Experiments
12 February, 2018
Experiments
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12 February, 2018