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The BASE antiprotons celebrate their first birthday

BASE has kept a shot of antiprotons trapped for more than one year: it is the longest-lived, coldest, known baryonic antimatter object in the Universe

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Physics
20 December, 2016

ALPHA team celebrate antimatter light spectrum result

The ALPHA collaboration celebrate this week after twenty years of work resulted in them seeing, for the first time, antimatter's light spectrum

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Experiments
20 December, 2016
Experiments
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20 December, 2016

ALPHA observes light spectrum of antimatter for first time

In a Nature paper, the ALPHA collaboration reports the first ever measurement on the optical spectrum of an antimatter

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Experiments
19 December, 2016
Experiments
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19 December, 2016

Black hole aligns with Sun and CERN telescope

On 18 December 2016 the Sun aligned with the black hole in the centre of the Milky Way, allowing CAST to search for any exotic particles it might emit

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Experiments
19 December, 2016
Experiments
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19 December, 2016

CERN’s Procurement and Industrial Services Group Honoured

The CERN Procurement and Industrial Services group has been awarded the EIPM - Peter Kraljic Award for Innovation and Process Excellence

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At CERN
16 December, 2016

CERN IT department wins EMEA award

The award was presented for an Open Compute Project investigation into whether or not it could be sent out for public procurement

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Computing
14 December, 2016
Computing
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14 December, 2016

AWAKE: Making waves in accelerator technology

The AWAKE experiment has reached an important milestone in the development of a technique that could revolutionise particle accelerator design

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Accelerators
14 December, 2016
Accelerators
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14 December, 2016

Accelerating News Issue December 2016 now available

Issue 19 of Accelerating News is now available online

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Accelerators
13 December, 2016
Accelerators
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13 December, 2016

Reinforcing cooperation between the emergency services

A tripartite agreement between CERN, France and Switzerland reinforces cooperation between their respective emergency services

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At CERN
13 December, 2016

ATLAS releases first measurement of W mass using LHC data

ATLAS reports the first measurement of the W boson mass using LHC proton–proton collision data at 7 TeV

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Experiments
13 December, 2016
Experiments
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13 December, 2016