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There will be some brief road and entrance closures today
The Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics and the Elettra light source have signed to supply accelerator components worth €1 million to SESAME
In continuing its studies of the energy region of the τ and charm particles, the BES collaboration has begun to investigate the puzzling XYZ states
For CERN, the "Fête des Voisins" (neighbours' fair) lasted the whole weekend
The LS1 team will be popping the champagne on Tuesday 27 May, celebrating the completion of the consolidation of the splices
DRAFT Agenda for the meeting to be held on Tuesday 3 June 2014 at 9.15am in Room 60-6-002
The Particle Physics Project Prioritisation Panel is the US equivalent of the European Strategy update
This weekend, CERN is inviting residents of the local area to discover its installations
An event in Geneva that aims to make science accessible and fun by bringing current scientific research to the welcoming atmosphere of a pub
Competition open to find new machine-learning techniques for analysis of Higgs data produced by the ATLAS experiment