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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

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Physics
14 June, 2019
Physics
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14 June, 2019

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

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Physics
12 June, 2019
Physics
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12 June, 2019

The waltz of the LHC magnets has begun

Ten new magnets are already being connected

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Accelerators
12 June, 2019
Accelerators
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12 June, 2019

CERN Alumni: Two years of creating links

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At CERN
12 June, 2019

CERN pays tribute to Murray Gell-Mann

The Nobel laureate, who coined the name “quarks”, passed away on 24 May

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At CERN
27 May, 2019
At CERN
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27 May, 2019

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

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Accelerators
27 May, 2019
Accelerators
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27 May, 2019

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

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Physics
24 May, 2019

ATLAS surveys new supersymmetry territory

New studies from the ATLAS collaboration search for hypothetical “supersymmetric” particles around uncharted corners

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Physics
23 May, 2019

ATTRACT funding is awarded to 170 breakthrough projects

The EU-funded programme announces the successful proposals in its call for projects. CERN scientists are involved in 19 of the projects selected

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Knowledge sharing
21 May, 2019
Knowledge sharing
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21 May, 2019

Lock the Planck: the kilogram has a new definition

From today, all SI base units will be defined based on natural constants, with the kilogram the last to join the ranks

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Engineering
20 May, 2019