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ALICE is “FIT” for Run 3 after last new subdetector installation
The Fast Interaction Trigger is the final piece of the puzzle of ALICE’s LS2 subdetector installations
2021 LHCb prize winners
LHCb has awarded its annual prizes for best PhD thesis and for outstanding contributions made by early-career scientists
Data-taking in physics facilities is resuming
With the Proton Synchrotron and its Booster accelerating protons to high energies again, the physics season can start at the ISOLDE radioactive ion beam facility and the Antimatter Factory
Greening gaseous detectors
Physicists seek to replace harmful chlorofluorocarbons with novel “eco-gases”
First ATLAS New Small Wheel nears completion
On Friday 28 May 2021, the final "wedge" of the first ATLAS New Small Wheel was installed in the detector. This was an important milestone for the Collaboration, in preparation for the wheel’s installation in the ATLAS cavern later this summer
LS2 Report: An upgraded Inner Tracking System joins the ALICE detector
The two barrels of the largest pixel detector ever built have been successfully lowered into the cavern and stand ready for commissioning
AMS, a decade of cosmic discoveries
19 May 2021 marks 10 years since the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer was installed on the International Space Station and started sending data back to Earth
LS2 Report: Installation of the CMS beam pipe
The CMS collaboration just reached another LS2 milestone: the biggest upgrade of the experimental beam vacuum system since the first operation of CMS in 2008
A SciFi moment for the LHCb experiment
The first pieces of LHCb’s new scintillating-fibre particle-tracking detector, or SciFi, have just journeyed 100 metres down to be installed in the experiment’s underground cavern
Supporting talented students with the ATLAS PhD Grant
On 13 April 2021, the recipients of this year's ATLAS PhD Grant were celebrated in an online ceremony