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The LHC lead-ion collision run starts

For the coming 5 weeks the LHC experiments will be taking data for their heavy-ion physics programmes

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Experiments
28 September, 2023
Experiments
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28 September, 2023

ATLAS measures strength of the strong force with record precision

The result showcases the power of the LHC to push the precision frontier and improve our understanding of nature

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Physics
25 September, 2023

ALICE reports new charmonia measurements in LHC Run 3

The ALICE collaboration presents its first results based on data collected with the upgraded detector in 2022, the first year of Run 3 of the LHC, at the 2023 Quark Matter conference

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Physics
15 September, 2023

Accelerating circular fashion

What role could particle accelerators play in recycling textile waste?

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Knowledge sharing
11 September, 2023
Knowledge sharing
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11 September, 2023

ATLAS sets record precision on Higgs boson’s mass

New result from the ATLAS experiment at CERN reaches the unprecedented precision of 0.09%

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Physics
21 July, 2023

50 years of giant electroweak discoveries

On 19 July 1973, the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN revealed the existence of weak neutral currents and put the nascent Standard Model of particle physics on solid ground

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Physics
19 July, 2023

LHCb tightens precision on key measurements of matter–antimatter asymmetry

The LHCb collaboration’s new measurements of matter–antimatter asymmetry in decays of beauty particles are the most precise yet of their kind

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Physics
13 June, 2023

LHC experiments see first evidence of a rare Higgs boson decay

The ATLAS and CMS collaborations have joined forces to establish the first evidence of the rare decay of the Higgs boson into a Z boson and a photon

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Physics
26 May, 2023

ISOLDE takes a solid tick forward towards a nuclear clock

The observation at CERN’s nuclear physics facility of a long-sought decay of the thorium-229 nucleus in a solid-state system is a key step towards a clock that could outclass today’s most precise atomic clocks

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Physics
24 May, 2023

Where does the Higgs boson come from?

The observed mass of the Higgs boson is, from the theoretical point of view, unnaturally small. This conundrum is forcing physicists to explore exotic explanations.

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Physics
30 March, 2023
Physics
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30 March, 2023