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The Large Hadron Collider: 10 years and counting
Ten years ago, protons circulated CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for the first time, marking the end of years of design and construction
ATTRACT initiative to fund detection and imaging innovation
CERN and other European organisations join forces to help fund 170 breakthrough detection and imaging ideas with market potential
Hunting for dark quarks
A search for dark quarks conducted by the CMS collaboration inches closer to the parent particles from which they may originate
AWAKE successfully accelerates electrons
Proton beams from the SPS at CERN were used to generate plasma waves upon which the electrons “surfed”
Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed
Six years after its discovery, the Higgs boson has at last been observed decaying to fundamental particles known as bottom quarks.
Photowalk 2018: CERN winners join global competition
The three winning photographs from CERN’s Photowalk now join the Global Physics Photowalk. Vote for your favourite
Taking the temperature of protoDUNE
Giant thermometer can measure the temperatures of liquid argon inside massive neutrino-detector prototype at 48 different depths
ALPHA experiment takes antimatter to a new level
The ALPHA collaboration has observed a new electronic transition in the antihydrogen atom
HIE-ISOLDE’s Phase 2 reaches completion
The HIE-ISOLDE project is on its way to providing radioactive nuclei at higher energies than before
New measurement of particle’s lifetime intrigues physicists
A new measurement by the LHCb collaboration of the lifetime of a particle known as the charmed omega is inconsistent with previous estimates