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For one day only LHC collides xenon beams

The LHC is operating for several hours with the nuclei of xenon atoms

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Accelerators
12 October, 2017
Accelerators
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12 October, 2017

Beamline for Schools 2017: a successful story continues

Two high-school teams from Italy and Canada had the opportunity to conduct their own experiments at a fully-equipped CERN beamline

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At CERN
10 October, 2017

Waves of congratulations for the Nobel Prize

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for the detection of gravitational waves

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At CERN
03 October, 2017

ATLAS and CMS celebrate their 25th anniversaries

On 1 October 1992, the newly formed ATLAS and CMS collaborations both submitted letters of intent for the construction of their detectors

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Experiments
02 October, 2017
Experiments
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02 October, 2017

Tonight: Researchers’ Night at CERN

Tonight, CERN will be open to the general public to celebrate science

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At CERN
29 September, 2017
At CERN
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29 September, 2017

LHC rocks the seesaw model

CMS experiment delves into the mystery of neutrino masses

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Accelerators
26 September, 2017
Accelerators
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26 September, 2017

The melody of magnets

On the occasion of the EUCAS 2017 conference, superconducting magnets and cavities were turned into musical instruments

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Engineering
25 September, 2017
Engineering
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25 September, 2017

To 20 Tesla and beyond: the high-temperature superconductors

High-temperature superconductors have the potential to revolutionise the field of particle physics

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Accelerators
22 September, 2017
Accelerators
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22 September, 2017

CERN openlab tackles ICT challenges of High-Luminosity LHC

CERN openlab has published a white paper identifying the major ICT challenges that face CERN and other ‘big science’ projects in the coming years

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Computing
21 September, 2017
Computing
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21 September, 2017

Next stop: the superconducting magnets of the future

Intensity tests have been successfully completed on the FRESCA2 magnet. It will serve as a test bench for the development of more powerful magnets

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Engineering
21 September, 2017
Engineering
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21 September, 2017