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An international approach for a new 1000 km experiment
The world’s largest liquid-argon neutrino detector will find a new home across the Atlantic Ocean at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station will be the focus of the three-day “AMS Days at CERN” meeting
A team in Japan has used advanced ISOL techniques to measure the energy needed to remove an electron from lawrencium, which lives for only 27 seconds
LHCb physicists today presented their latest analysis of a rare decay, which shows deviations from Standard Model calculations
LHCb physicists today presented their latest analysis of the rare B → K*μμ decay. The new results show deviations from Standard Model calculations
The CALorimetric Electron Telescope is preparing for installation in the flight module that will bring it to its final destination on the ISS
A new documentary made in collaboration with Arts @ CERN explores the overlap between photography and particle physics
Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli, who leads a research team in Morocco for the ATLAS collaboration, is among this year's laureates
The LHCb has announced a precise measurement of the unitarity triangle angle β
Vote online now for a Lego replica of the LHC, created by an ATLAS PhD student