electron

The electron is a subatomic particle with a negative elementary electric charge.
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Fireball at HiRadMat

CERN’s HiRadMat facility restarts this week with a new experiment nicknamed “Fireball”, which will give new insights into extreme astrophysical phenomena such as gamma-ray bursts

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Experiments
24 May, 2023
Experiments
News
24 May, 2023

Intriguing new result from the LHCb experiment at CERN

The LHCb results strengthen hints of a violation of lepton flavour universality

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Physics
23 March, 2021

AWAKE achieves first ever acceleration of electrons in a proton-driven plasma wave

In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the AWAKE collaboration at CERN reports the first ever successful acceleration of electrons using a wave generated by protons zipping through a plasma.

Press release
Accelerators
29 August, 2018
Accelerators
Press release
29 August, 2018

Electrons at the LHC: a new beginning

A new committee is providing direction on the case for an electron–hadron collider, both at the LHC and at a Future Circular Collider complex

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Accelerators
02 July, 2014
Accelerators
News
02 July, 2014