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Registration for the 2020 session of the Joint Universities Accelerator School (JUAS) is now open
Registration for the 2020 session of the European School of Instrumentation in Particle and Astroparticle Physics (ESIPAP) is now open
The n_TOF facility is investigating the potential of one of its neutron beams for imaging the interior of materials
The NA64 collaboration has placed new limits on the interaction between a photon and its hypothetical dark-matter counterpart
On 10 July, CERN and APPEC founded EuCAPT, a research centre for astroparticle physics theory
The first measurement, by the ALICE collaboration, of an elliptic-shaped flow for bottomonium particles could help shed light on the early universe
ATLAS and CMS have studied the Higgs boson with the largest sample of proton–proton collision data recorded so far
First results are in for the KWISP detector’s hunt for hypothetical dark-energy particles from the Sun
The Workshop on Efficient Neutron Sources will take place in Villigen, Switzerland, on September 2-5 2019
The ATLAS collaboration has placed some of the tightest limits yet on the production rate of hypothetical particles known as magnetic monopoles
How a walk through CERN’s corridors helped lead to the discovery of the gluon forty years ago at the DESY laboratory
