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Former CERN Director-General Herwig Schopper recalls a decade of growth at CERN
Phil Burrows of the University of Oxford succeeds Roberto Corsini of CERN as spokesperson for the CLIC accelerator collaboration
Issue 9 of Accelerating News, a quarterly publication for the accelerator community, is now available
The president of Council offers a personal insight into the continuing attraction of collaboration with CERN
The start of the LAA project in 1986 propelled electronics at CERN into the era of microelectronics
The collimation system for the Large Hadron Collider's Run 2 will consist of a total of 118 ultra-precise devices
With the pressure tests now complete we are coming to the equally important phase of cleaning the machine
A particle accelerator from Heidelberg, Germany – the Test Storage Ring - may not be going into storage after all
Last week several CERN teams were involved in creating a life-size mock helium leak in Sector 4-5
This week and next see a series of meetings looking at the future of CERN, and indeed of particle physics, says Director-General Rolf Heuer
Radiofrequency cavities built for the Large Electron Positron Collider are finding use on the SESAME project
As the LHC’s first long shutdown, LS1, enters its second calendar year, it’s a good time for a mid-term report on how things are progressing