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In pictures: Opening the LHC

This week, technicians opened up the first interconnections between LHC magnets to work on accelerator components inside

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Engineering
12 April, 2013
Engineering
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12 April, 2013

Accelerators for medicine

CERN signs a new collaboration agreement with industry to transfer accelerator technology to the medical field

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Knowledge sharing
11 April, 2013
Knowledge sharing
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11 April, 2013

The beginning of the universe, for beginners

CERN scientists team up with TED-Ed animators to bring you the first of a series of five animations about physics

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At CERN
09 April, 2013

The LHC at level best

CERN surveyors have taken new measurements of the height of the LHC magnets in the tunnel, to see how geological shifts may be affecting the machine

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Accelerators
09 April, 2013
Accelerators
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09 April, 2013

LHC consolidations: Insulating the magnets

The LHC's main magnets operate at temperatures colder than outer space – and it's time to replace the insulation on 1695 interconnections between them

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Engineering
08 April, 2013
Engineering
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08 April, 2013

AMS experiment measures antimatter excess in space

The international team running the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) today announced the first results in its search for dark matter

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Physics
03 April, 2013

AMS to present latest results

At a seminar at CERN today at 5pm CET, the AMS collaboration will announce its first physics results. Watch the webcast here

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Experiments
03 April, 2013
Experiments
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03 April, 2013

An extra dimension for LHCb

Analysing data from LHCb in five dimensions rather than two could open up a new world of precision measurement

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Experiments
02 April, 2013
Experiments
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02 April, 2013

CRISP: Physics and collaboration

At the 2nd Annual Meeting of CRISP in Switzerland, CERN delegates discussed the IT challenges the laboratory faces to deal with LHC data

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Computing
28 March, 2013
Computing
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28 March, 2013

CMS open for business

Engineers and technicians have started opening the 14,000-tonne CMS detector, to let detector physicists like David Barney get to work inside

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Experiments
27 March, 2013
Experiments
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27 March, 2013