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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
In preparation for the LHC's next run, physicists are calibrating the ATLAS experiment - with high-energy rays from outer space
Cool down of the Large Hadron Collider has already begun in preparation for research to resume early in 2015
Results reported by ATLAS and CMS discuss the decay of Higgs bosons directly to fermions, the particles that make up matter
Updates on EuCARD-2, ERC grants, and CRISP in Issue 10 of Accelerating News. Now available online
IPAC’14, the 5th International Accelerator Conference, has attracted more than 1500 accelerator experts this week to Dresden
On 2 June the PS Booster had beam for the first time since the beginning of LS1
A new projection system breathes life into the Synchrocyclotron, an accelerator that has been dormant since 1990
New results from LHCb suggest that B+mesons decay to muons about 25% less often than they decay to electrons
Today the Collider exhibition, which began life at London’s Science Museum, launches in Manchester, UK, ahead of an international tour
Images of the last of over ten thousand M welds on LHC magnet interconnections that were performed as part of the LS1 consolidation work
After years of design, prototyping and manufacturing, the Linac4 Drift Tube Linac is being assembled at CERN