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  • Re-engineering radiotherapy

    Re-engineering radiotherapy

    The Smart Technologies to Extend Lives with Linear Accelerators (STELLA) project aims to turn technology developed for particle physics into a novel radiotherapy system suited to the challenging environments of low- and middle-income countries

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  • Cosmic count exceeds expectation

    Cosmic count exceeds expectation

    The AMS detector on board the International Space Station has found more cosmic rays made of deuterons than expected

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  • ALICE does the double slit

    ALICE does the double slit

    Using collisions between lead nuclei at the LHC, the ALICE collaboration has measured an interference pattern akin to that of the famous double-slit experiment

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  • NA62 announces its first search for long-lived particles

    NA62 announces its first search for long-lived particles

    CERN’s kaon factory pushes the energy frontier to probe uncharted territories of many beyond-the-Standard-Model theories

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  • Breakthrough in rapid cooling for BASE antiprotons

    Breakthrough in rapid cooling for BASE antiprotons

    The experiment has developed a new device for cooling antiprotons more efficiently and for considerably increasing the precision of measurements of their fundamental properties

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  • AMBER releases its first results

    AMBER releases its first results

    The experiment’s preliminary results explore the production cross section of the antiproton, which may provide physicists with clues in the search for dark matter

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  • ATLAS probes uncharted territory with LHC Run 3 data

    ATLAS probes uncharted territory with LHC Run 3 data

    The ATLAS collaboration has released its first results from searches for new physics phenomena conducted with data from Run 3 of the LHC

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  • CERN and Pro Helvetia announce the artists selected for the Connect India residency

    CERN and Pro Helvetia announce the artists selected for the Connect India residency

    Arts at CERN, in collaboration with the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, announced today that Swiss artist Lou Masduraud and Indian artist Shailesh BR have been selected for the Connect India dual residency

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  • LHCb investigates the properties of one of physics’ most puzzling particles

    LHCb investigates the properties of one of physics’ most puzzling particles

    The particle, known as χc1(3872), has fascinated physicists for years. Now, the LHCb collaboration is closer to finding out what it is made up of

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  • Digital archaeology: new LEP data now available to all

    Digital archaeology: new LEP data now available to all

    Retrieving and preserving access to data from experiments that ran in the 90s is a complex task carried out by passionate experts in the IT department

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