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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

CERN Data Centre passes 100 petabytes

The CERN Data Centre has collected more than 100 petabytes of data – equivalent to roughly 700 years of full HD-quality movies

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Computing
14 February, 2013
Computing
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14 February, 2013

First three-year LHC running period reaches a conclusion

At 7.24am, the shift crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the Large Hadron Collider, ending the machine’s first three-year run

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Accelerators
14 February, 2013
Accelerators
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14 February, 2013

Sounds like CERN

Sound artist Bill Fontana recorded his first soundscapes at CERN on a 4-day induction visit preceding his residency

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At CERN
13 February, 2013
At CERN
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13 February, 2013