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Tweetup to coincide with the visit of Nasa astronauts to the AMS experiment at CERN
A new experimental facility and neutron beamline will provide n_TOF with its highest neutron flux yet
The NA62 straw tracker is using pioneering CERN technology to measure charged particles from rare kaon decays
The LHCb collaboration has observed two new excited states of the Λb beauty particle, confirming Standard-Model predictions
Experts from the AMS collaboration operate the detector round the clock from the Payload Operation Control Center at CERN
The Standard Model predicts the existence of these new states but this is the first time they have been confirmed in experiments
The detector measured a strong signal that gives the particle's mass as 5945.0 ± 2.8 MeV
The CERN-MEDICIS project will use waste beams from ISOLDE to produce isotopes that could help in the war on cancer
Two new phases of the COMPASS experiment will bring a powerful new look at quarks and gluons
Results presented at the Moriond conference by LHCb put stringent limits on the current theory of particle physics, the Standard Model
There's more to CERN than the Large Hadron Collider. Check out what the non-LHC experiments will be getting up to this year