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CERN invites the public to explore the future at its Open Days
On 14 and 15 September, CERN will throw its doors open wide and invite the public to spend the weekend exploring science.
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
The waltz of the LHC magnets has begun
Ten new magnets are already being connected
CERN pays tribute to Murray Gell-Mann
The Nobel laureate, who coined the name “quarks”, passed away on 24 May
More than a spring-clean for LHC magnets
Teams are hard at work in the LHC tunnel to improve the electrical insulation of the diodes of more than 1200 magnets
CMS hunts for dark photons coming from the Higgs boson
The CMS collaboration has searched for collision events in which the Higgs boson transforms into a photon and a hypothetical dark photon
ATLAS surveys new supersymmetry territory
New studies from the ATLAS collaboration search for hypothetical “supersymmetric” particles around uncharted corners