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UK school groups have recreated the ATLAS detector in the gaming platform Minecraft
The ALICE collaboration has released the measurement of the integrated production yield in heavy-ion collisions the anti-alpha particle
During the 2017 LHC special runs, the LHCb experiment collected proton-proton and proton-neon data simultaneously for the first time
Having docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on 25 August 2015, CALET is carrying out a full science programme
The last components of AWAKE – its electron source, electron beam line and electron spectrometer – have just been installed
Scientists at CERN’s ISOLDE facility have helped confirm that Nickel-78 is doubly magic by examining its nuclear neighbour, copper-79
50 years ago, the first radioactive beam at ISOLDE was produced
Meet the two prototypes under construction at CERN for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
Top marks for the Standard Model as LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS study the subtle behaviour of the heaviest particle
The first in our series to celebrate 50 years of physics at CERN’s oldest experiment, the ISOLDE facility
What is a target and how is it built? The second article in a series celebrating 50 years of physics at CERN’s longest running experimental facility
To celebrate 50 years of ISOLDE physics, the third article in our series looks at how people shape the facility and the importance of low-energy beams
