Tag: General public
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The European particle physics community gears up for a new shared vision for the future
During its hundred-and-ninetieth session, the CERN Council formally launched the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, a two-year process involving the whole community and aiming at developing a common vision for the future of physics.
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Rugby or football? ISOLDE reveals shape-shifting character of Mercury isotopes
An unprecedented combination of experimental nuclear physics and theoretical and computational modelling techniques has been brought together to reveal the full extent of the odd-even shape staggering of exotic mercury isotopes, and explain how it happens
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First particle tracks seen in prototype for international neutrino experiment
The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has just recorded its first particle tracks, signaling the start of a new chapter in the story of the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).
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Hunting for dark quarks
A search for dark quarks conducted by the CMS collaboration inches closer to the parent particles from which they may originate
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Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed
Six years after its discovery, the Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks.
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Opinion: We need to talk about the Higgs
It is six years ago that the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced, to great fanfare in the world’s media, as a crowning success of CERN’s LHC
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ISOLDE peers into the world of DNA
Researchers at CERN’s ISOLDE facility have used an ultrasensitive variant of NMR spectroscopy to study DNA interactions
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Major work starts to boost the luminosity of the LHC
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is officially entering a new stage. Today, a ground-breaking ceremony at CERN celebrates the start of the civil-engineering work for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC): a new milestone in CERN’s history.
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World’s first crabbing of a proton beam
CERN successfully tests crab cavities, a key component of the High-Luminosity LHC
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OPERA collaboration presents its final results on neutrino oscillations. All data publicly available on the CERN Open Data Portal
The OPERA collaboration reports the observation of a total of 10 candidate events for a muon to tau-neutrino conversion, in what are the very final results of the experiment.