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Highlights from CERN in 2012

A Higgs-like boson, more new particles and record performance at the LHC: 2012 has been good to CERN

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Experiments
21 December, 2012
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21 December, 2012

This month in 1991: The web spreads beyond CERN

Twenty-one years ago this month, physicists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) installed the first web server outside of Europe

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Computing
20 December, 2012

TIME honours Fabiola Gianotti and the Higgs-like boson

TIME magazine today named ATLAS spokesperson Fabiola Gianotti as a runner-up for Person of the Year. A certain Higgs-like boson was also mentioned...

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Experiments
19 December, 2012
Experiments
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19 December, 2012

Video: Colliding particles episode 11 - Higgs

This episode of the Colliding Particles series looks back at the July Higgs search update

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Physics
19 December, 2012

Pension Fund wins two international awards

The Fund won one award for Best Risk Management Solutions, and another for Industry Innovation

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At CERN
19 December, 2012
At CERN
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19 December, 2012

Wilton Park report published

October's Wilton Park meeting brought CERN physicists together with philosophers and theologians. The report from the meeting is now available

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At CERN
19 December, 2012
At CERN
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19 December, 2012

LHC report: 25ns spacing yields record beam intensity

Record number of 2,748 proton bunches injected into the LHC giving a record beam intensity of around 2.7 x 10^14 protons in both beams

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Accelerators
18 December, 2012
Accelerators
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18 December, 2012

CERN DG meets with Ban Ki-moon

Following CERN's accession to status of observer to the UN General Assembly, Rolf Heuer met with Ban Ki-moon in New York

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At CERN
18 December, 2012
At CERN
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18 December, 2012

LHC run ends with 25ns bunch spacing

Remarkable first three-year LHC run crowned by a new performance milestone

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Accelerators
17 December, 2012
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17 December, 2012

"So long and thanks for all the fish"

Remarkable first three-year run of LHC comes to an end, marked by the LHC controllers with a Douglas Adams reference

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Accelerators
17 December, 2012
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17 December, 2012