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Cian O'Luanaigh was the web editor in the CERN communications group from 2011-2015.
This morning, for the first time in two years, proton-proton collisions were delivered to the LHC experiments at injection energy: 450 GeV per beam
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A new documentary made in collaboration with Arts @ CERN explores the overlap between photography and particle physics
The Operations team is testing the systems that deliver beams to the Large Hadron Collider in preparation for the start-up this month
Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli, who leads a research team in Morocco for the ATLAS collaboration, is among this year's laureates
Two years ago, CERN's accelerators and experiments shut down for maintenance, to prepare the LHC for running at 13 TeV
A new result brings precision to a key measurement of strong-interaction physics
With ‘LHC Season 2’ starting soon, running at a new high energy, the LHC key is handed back to the machine operators today
The CERN cryogenics team are filling the LHC with liquid helium, cooling entire sections to below 4K