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CERN70: Where the Web was born…

Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal in 1989 for an information management system called the World Wide Web

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Computing
20 August, 2024
Computing
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20 August, 2024

Breakthrough in rapid cooling for BASE antiprotons

The experiment has developed a new device for cooling antiprotons more efficiently and for considerably increasing the precision of measurements of their fundamental properties

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Experiments
02 August, 2024

Updating the European Strategy for Particle Physics

Important information and key dates for the 2024-26 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics

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Knowledge sharing
01 August, 2024
Knowledge sharing
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01 August, 2024

CERN70: Green light for LEP

Herwig Schopper was Director-General of CERN from 1981 to 1988, during which time the Large Electron Positron collider was approved and constructed

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At CERN
31 July, 2024
At CERN
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31 July, 2024

ATLAS probes uncharted territory with LHC Run 3 data

The ATLAS collaboration has released its first results from searches for new physics phenomena conducted with data from Run 3 of the LHC

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Physics
26 July, 2024

CERN70: The end of the alphabet

Carlo Rubbia’s name is closely related to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN. In 1984, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, together with Simon van der Meer, for the work he had done as head of the UA1 collaboration

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At CERN
11 July, 2024
At CERN
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11 July, 2024

LHCb investigates the rare Σ+→pμ+μ- decay

The rarest hyperon decay ever observed

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Physics
28 June, 2024

Going the extra mile to squeeze supersymmetry out of CMS data

Re-analysing LHC Run 2 data with cutting-edge analysis techniques allowed CMS physicists to address an old discrepancy

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Physics
27 June, 2024

CERN70: A two-stage rocket

Ted Wilson was involved in the design of the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) and played a leading role in its commissioning

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At CERN
27 June, 2024
At CERN
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27 June, 2024

CERN70: A gargantuan discovery

Violette Brisson played an active part in the discovery of neutral currents; she was head of the Gargamelle group at the Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris

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At CERN
13 June, 2024
At CERN
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13 June, 2024