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The ALICE experiment is optimized to perform in the environment of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, which can produce thousands of particles
The Italian Physical Society awarded five physicists for discoveries at the LHC
Today in Stockholm, two CERN collaborations will present measurements of one of the rarest measureable processes in physics
This week, CERN will be hosting a seminar entitled The music of physics and the physics of music at the Montreux Jazz Festival
Rock out to riffs and head-bang to the Higgs boson as CERN heads to the world-famous music festival in Switzerland
Duelling guitars, a giant particle detector and a teenage scientist – move over, Alpenhorn, it's time to rock out at CMS
A new education project from the CMS collaboration combines science and the arts to inspire students about particle physics
An interactive timeline from the ALICE collaboration tells the story of the detector from its design to current upgrade work
The toy company LEGO will consider building a miniature ATLAS detector after the design gained 10,000 votes on a fan website
The ISOLTRAP collaboration has measured the mass of exotic calcium nuclei using a new instrument installed at the ISOLDE facility at CERN
Belgian high-school students team up with a Dutch comic-book artist to create a comic about the fascinating world of subatomic particles