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CERN experiments announce first indications of a rare Higgs boson process

The ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN have announced new results which show that the Higgs boson decays into two muons

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Physics
03 August, 2020
Physics
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03 August, 2020

ISOLDE reveals fundamental property of rarest element on Earth

The finding is significant for both fundamental and medical research, as the element is a promising candidate for cancer treatment by targeted alpha therapy

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Physics
30 July, 2020

ATLAS result addresses long-standing tension in the Standard Model

A new ATLAS measurement of a key feature of the Standard Model known as lepton flavour universality suggests that a previous discrepancy measured by the LEP collider in W boson decays may be due to a fluctuation

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Physics
29 July, 2020

Chasing particles with tiny electric charges

Researchers have conducted the first search at a hadron collider for elementary particles with electric charges smaller than a tenth of the electron charge

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Physics
14 July, 2020

The Higgs boson: Revealing nature’s secrets

Our third story in the LHC Physics at Ten series takes us on a deeper dive into the Higgs boson

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Physics
04 July, 2020

LHCb discovers a new type of tetraquark at CERN

The LHCb collaboration has observed an exotic particle made up of four charm quarks for the first time

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Physics
01 July, 2020

NA64 explores gap in searches for axions and axion-like particles

The NA64 collaboration has conducted its first search for axions and axion-like particles, targeting an unexplored area

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Physics
22 June, 2020

Particle physicists update strategy for the future of the field in Europe

The CERN Council announced that it had unanimously updated the strategy intended to guide the future of particle physics in Europe within the global landscape

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Physics
19 June, 2020
Physics
Press release
19 June, 2020

Particle physicists update strategy for the future of the field in Europe

The CERN Council today announced that it has updated the strategy that will guide the future of particle physics in Europe

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Physics
19 June, 2020

Search for new physics through multiboson production

At the LHCP conference this year, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented new results relating to a physics process called vector boson scattering

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Physics
11 June, 2020