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The long road to Linac4

After two decades of design and construction, CERN’s newest accelerator, Linac4, is on its way to join the LHC injection chain

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Accelerators
26 February, 2018
Accelerators
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26 February, 2018

Fifty years since Charpak revolutionised particle detectors

In 1968, Georges Charpak invented the Nobel prize-winning multiwire proportional chamber pushing particle physics detection into the electronic era

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Experiments
23 February, 2018
Experiments
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23 February, 2018

Collimators: the LHC’s bodyguards

The LHC shows its teeth each time protons misbehave

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Experiments
21 February, 2018
Experiments
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21 February, 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

Odd gluon compounds may be lurking in protons

Precision results from the TOTEM experiment provide further explanation on proton-proton interactions at high energies

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Experiments
09 February, 2018
Experiments
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09 February, 2018

Coding has no gender

Showcasing female computer programmers from CERN and Fermilab to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science

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Computing
05 February, 2018
Computing
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05 February, 2018

CLIC technology lights the way to compact accelerators

A new project uses technology originally developed for CERN’s Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) to help build compact X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs)

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Knowledge sharing
01 February, 2018
Knowledge sharing
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01 February, 2018

Particle physics on the brain

Methods from theoretical physics are shedding light on the brain’s circuitry

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Physics
30 January, 2018
Physics
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30 January, 2018

CERN at the World Economic Forum

CERN's Director-General, Fabiola Gianotti, is co-chairing this week's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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At CERN
23 January, 2018
At CERN
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23 January, 2018

Next piece of puzzle arrives for ProtoDUNE

A key component for the ProtoDUNE neutrino experiment arrived this week at CERN from the UK

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Experiments
19 January, 2018
Experiments
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19 January, 2018