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At the end of a great year
As the year draws to a close, I’d like to wish you and your families a very well deserved end-of-year break
Twenty-five years of service at CERN
Eighteen staff members reached 25 years of service at CERN in 2016
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
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
What is the future for experimental physics?
The final installment of In Practice looks at what lies ahead for experimentalists and their field
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
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
ALPHA experiment observes the light spectrum of antimatter for the first time
The ALPHA collaboration reports the first ever measurement on the optical spectrum of an antimatter atom. This achievement features technological developments that open up a completely new era in high-precision antimatter research.
News from the Council
I would like to bring you the main news from the last Council week of 2016, which concluded today.