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ATLAS in 2012: Building on success

In a year where the LHC delivered nearly as much data in a week as it did previously in a month, the ATLAS experiment went from strength to strength

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Experiments
20 February, 2013
Experiments
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20 February, 2013

Proton-lead run brings new physics reach to LHCb

In the recent lead-proton run at the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment took proton-ion data for the first time

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Experiments
19 February, 2013
Experiments
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19 February, 2013

LHC access required: Time estimate ~ 2 years

On Saturday at 8.25am the crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the LHC, ending the machine’s first three-year running period

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Accelerators
18 February, 2013
Accelerators
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18 February, 2013

Knowledge Transfer Fund to support six new projects

From photonic crystals to fibre-optic sensors, the KT Fund is supporting new initiatives to disseminate technology to society

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Knowledge sharing
15 February, 2013
Knowledge sharing
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15 February, 2013

CERN Data Centre passes 100 petabytes

The CERN Data Centre has collected more than 100 petabytes of data – equivalent to roughly 700 years of full HD-quality movies

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Computing
14 February, 2013
Computing
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14 February, 2013

First three-year LHC running period reaches a conclusion

At 7.24am, the shift crew in the CERN Control Centre extracted the beams from the Large Hadron Collider, ending the machine’s first three-year run

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Accelerators
14 February, 2013
Accelerators
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14 February, 2013

Sounds like CERN

Sound artist Bill Fontana recorded his first soundscapes at CERN on a 4-day induction visit preceding his residency

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At CERN
13 February, 2013
At CERN
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13 February, 2013

Fat antiatoms, laser beams and matter-antimatter asymmetry

An international team of collaborators are manipulating 'fat' antiatoms at the AEgIS experiment at CERN's Antiproton Decelerator

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Physics
12 February, 2013

Long Shutdown 1: Exciting times ahead

As the first and last proton-lead run of 2013 draws to a close, the extensive maintenance programme of the LHC's first long shutdown is about to start

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Accelerators
08 February, 2013
Accelerators
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08 February, 2013

Free the quarks: Calculating the strong force

Forty years ago quarks gained their freedom – at least theoretically – and the modern theory of the strong interaction began to emerge

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Physics
07 February, 2013