Tag: General public

  • 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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  • CERN is granted the status of observer to the United Nations General Assembly

    Geneva, 14 December 2012. The United Nations General Assembly in New York today adopted a resolution granting CERN1 observer status. This status gives the Organization the right to participate in the work of the General Assembly and to attend its sessions as an observer. “It’s a great honour for CERN to accede to the status

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  • Chamonix: Looking forward to 2012

    The experiments’ desiderata for the year included either discovery or exclusion of the Higgs boson

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  • ICHEP 2010 conference highlights first results from the LHC

    Geneva, 26 July 2010. First results from the LHC at CERN1 are being revealed at ICHEP, the world’s largest international conference on particle physics, which has attracted more than 1000 participants to its venue in Paris. The spokespersons of the four major experiments at the LHC – ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – are today

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  • LHC ends 2009 run on a high note

    Geneva, 18 December 2009. At its 153rd session today, the CERN1 Council heard that the Large Hadron Collider ended its first full period of operation in style on Wednesday 16 December. Collisions at 2.36TeV recorded since last weekend have set a new world record and brought to a close a successful first run for the

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