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The hunt for the platypus particle

Hypothetical particles called "leptoquarks" combine traits of leptons and hadrons - just as the platypus combines those of reptilies and mammals

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At CERN
17 October, 2012
At CERN
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17 October, 2012

Aspen Center for Physics announces upcoming conferences

Applications are now open for eight conferences in topics from exoplanets to the Higgs boson

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At CERN
25 September, 2012

LHC Report: Rocky XIV

The LHC has been in luminosity production mode for a couple of weeks - the total integrated luminosity for the year has passed 14 inverse femtobarns

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Accelerators
10 September, 2012
Accelerators
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10 September, 2012

ATLAS and CMS publish observations of a new particle

The collaborations published the latest in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in the journal <em>Physics Letters B</em>

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Experiments
10 September, 2012
Experiments
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10 September, 2012

MoEDAL looks to the discovery horizon

CERN's youngest experiment had its first physics workshop in the Globe of Science and Innovation this summer

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Experiments
04 September, 2012
Experiments
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04 September, 2012

LHC Report: Timeout is over!

A 10% decrease in the LHC's peak luminosity can be explained by changing bunch intensities. Jan Uythoven reports

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Accelerators
27 August, 2012
Accelerators
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27 August, 2012

Summer running at the LHC

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has delivered over twice as many collisions to the ATLAS and CMS experiments this year as it did in the whole of 2011

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Accelerators
20 August, 2012
Accelerators
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20 August, 2012

Fermilab director steps down

Pier Oddone, director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, announced today that he would be stepping down

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At CERN
03 August, 2012
At CERN
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03 August, 2012

Lyn Evans is new Linear Collider director

Lyn Evans, former Large Hadron Collider project leader, will lead the common effort for the next linear collider as Linear Collider Director

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At CERN
25 July, 2012

LHC 2012 proton run extended by seven weeks

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Accelerators
21 July, 2012
Accelerators
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21 July, 2012