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CERN’s neutrons fly higher

A new experimental facility and neutron beamline will provide n_TOF with its highest neutron flux yet

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26 June, 2012
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26 June, 2012

New straw trackers for NA62

The NA62 straw tracker is using pioneering CERN technology to measure charged particles from rare kaon decays

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11 June, 2012
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11 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
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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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22 May, 2012
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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

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

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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06 April, 2012

COMPASS to point in new directions

Two new phases of the COMPASS experiment will bring a powerful new look at quarks and gluons

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03 April, 2012
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03 April, 2012

LHCb experiment squeezes the space for expected new physics

Results presented at the Moriond conference by LHCb put stringent limits on the current theory of particle physics, the Standard Model

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05 March, 2012

The non-LHC experiments in 2012

There's more to CERN than the Large Hadron Collider. Check out what the non-LHC experiments will be getting up to this year

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21 February, 2012
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21 February, 2012