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With the LHC now back smashing protons together at an energy of 13 TeV, what exotic beasts do physicists hope to find?
The first antiproton beam has been successfully injected and circulated into ELENA, the Extra Low ENergy Antiproton deceleration ring
The ALPHA experiment at CERN’s Antiproton Decelerator reports the first observation of the hyperfine structure of antihydrogen
Exploiting CERN’s know-how in trapping single particles, a team in Heidelberg has found that the proton is lighter than we thought
Works have started today, in the USA, for the LBNF facility that will host giant neutrino detectors. Their prototypes are being developed at CERN.
On the 5th anniversary of the Higgs discovery announcement, we will publish your best Higgs stories
Great manoeuvres have been undertaken by two neutrino detectors at CERN: ICARUS and Baby MIND
Data-taking has started again at the LHC: the experiments are continuing their exploration of physics at the unprecedented energy of 13 TeV.
New projects will be installed and commissioned at ATLAS and CMS to detect photon - photon collisions before the LHC restarts in May this year
Three decades since the first ultra-relativistic collisions were produced at CERN, the field of heavy-ion physics is still a hot topic