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Full moon pulls LHC from its protons

The LHC is so large that operators have to correct for a surprising source of error - the moon's gravitational pull

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Accelerators
07 June, 2012
Accelerators
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07 June, 2012

Two beautiful new particles

The LHCb collaboration has observed two new excited states of the Λb beauty particle, confirming Standard-Model predictions

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Experiments
30 May, 2012
Experiments
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30 May, 2012

AMS reaches 17 billion cosmic-ray events

Experts from the AMS collaboration operate the detector round the clock from the Payload Operation Control Center at CERN

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Experiments
22 May, 2012
Experiments
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22 May, 2012

LHCb discovers two excited states for the Λb beauty particle

The Standard Model predicts the existence of these new states but this is the first time they have been confirmed in experiments

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Experiments
16 May, 2012

Laser acceleration, now with added fibre

Lasers consume too much power and can't sustain accelerating particles long enough to produce collisions. ICAN hopes to change all that

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Engineering
16 May, 2012
Engineering
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16 May, 2012

CERN computing looks to the future

A new data centre in Hungary and the 4th phase of Openlab promise improvements to CERN's computing infrastructure

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Computing
09 May, 2012
Computing
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09 May, 2012

Forty years of the PS Booster

The Proton Synchrotron (PS) Booster – a key accelerator in the CERN complex – is 40 years old this month

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Accelerators
30 April, 2012
Accelerators
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30 April, 2012

CMS discovers new particle – Meet the Ξb beauty baryon

The detector measured a strong signal that gives the particle's mass as 5945.0 ± 2.8 MeV

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Experiments
27 April, 2012

Taking the measure of the kilogram

Forget the new diet - you may weigh less in the morning anyway, thanks to an overhaul of the kilogram

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Engineering
07 April, 2012
Engineering
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07 April, 2012

ISOLDE to produce isotopes for medical research

The CERN-MEDICIS project will use waste beams from ISOLDE to produce isotopes that could help in the war on cancer

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Experiments
06 April, 2012