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Ten years ago, protons circulated CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for the first time, marking the end of years of design and construction
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.
The LHC has just come out of a successful week of machine development (MD), used to carry out studies covering a wide spectrum of topics
The HIE-ISOLDE project is on its way to providing radioactive nuclei at higher energies than before
Lead "atoms" with a single remaining electron swirl around the Large Hadron Collider
At 2.02 p.m. on Saturday, 7 July, the last fill of the special physics run was dumped, ready for standard physics to resume
