Gargamelle

Gargamelle was a bubble chamber at CERN designed to detect neutrinos.

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CERN70: A gargantuan discovery

Violette Brisson played an active part in the discovery of neutral currents; she was head of the Gargamelle group at the Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris

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At CERN
13 June, 2024
At CERN
Feature
13 June, 2024

Symposium: Celebrating electroweak milestones | 31 October

CERN Science Gateway will host its first scientific event to celebrate 50 years since Gargamelle discovered neutral currents and 40 years since UA1 and UA2 discovered the W and Z bosons

Announcement
Physics
10 October, 2023
Physics
Announcement
10 October, 2023

Seeing the invisible: Event displays in particle physics

From cloud chambers to 3D animations, physicists use a host of ingenious techniques to reveal subatomic particles too tiny to see

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Experiments
04 June, 2015

Fifty years of quarks

Fifty years ago, two physicists independently proposed the existence of the subatomic particles known as quarks

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Physics
17 January, 2014
Physics
News
17 January, 2014

Forty years of neutral currents

On 19 July 1973, physicists working with the Gargamelle bubble chamber at CERN presented the first direct evidence of the weak neutral current

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Physics
19 July, 2013
Physics
News
19 July, 2013

Gargamelle

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