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Explain it in 60 seconds: spin

Objects as large as a planet or as small as a photon can have the property of spin. Spin is also the reason we can watch movies in 3D.

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Physics
08 March, 2013
Physics
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08 March, 2013

A question of spin for the new boson

Physicists speaking today at the Moriond conference say that the new particle discovered at CERN last year is looking more and more like a Higgs boson

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Physics
06 March, 2013
Physics
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06 March, 2013

Ban Ki-moon visits CERN

On 1 March, UN’s Secretary-General visited CERN first since the Organization was granted Observer status at the UN General Assembly last December

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At CERN
04 March, 2013
At CERN
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04 March, 2013

ATLAS: now under new management

On 1 March, the ATLAS Collaboration welcomed a new spokesperson, Dave Charlton, and two new deputy spokespersons, Thorsten Wengler and Beate Heinemann

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Experiments
04 March, 2013
Experiments
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04 March, 2013

W boson published 30 years ago

On 24 February 1983 the journal <em>Physics Letters B</em> published a paper by the UA1 collaboration describing the discovery of the W boson

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Experiments
25 February, 2013
Experiments
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25 February, 2013

Colliders Unite: Linear Colliders in new partnership

The Linear Collider Collaboration unites global development work for a next-generation particle collider

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Accelerators
22 February, 2013
Accelerators
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22 February, 2013

ATLAS in 2012: Building on success

In a year where the LHC delivered nearly as much data in a week as it did previously in a month, the ATLAS experiment went from strength to strength

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Experiments
20 February, 2013
Experiments
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20 February, 2013

Proton-lead run brings new physics reach to LHCb

In the recent lead-proton run at the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment took proton-ion data for the first time

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Experiments
19 February, 2013
Experiments
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19 February, 2013

LHC access required: Time estimate ~ 2 years

On Saturday at 8.25am the crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the LHC, ending the machine’s first three-year running period

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Accelerators
18 February, 2013
Accelerators
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18 February, 2013

Knowledge Transfer Fund to support six new projects

From photonic crystals to fibre-optic sensors, the KT Fund is supporting new initiatives to disseminate technology to society

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Knowledge sharing
15 February, 2013
Knowledge sharing
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15 February, 2013