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Happy 5th anniversary, Higgs boson!

Five years ago, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations announced the discovery of the Higgs boson

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Experiments
04 July, 2017
Experiments
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04 July, 2017

The LHC racks up records

The Large Hadron Collider has established a new record of luminosity, delivering a huge amount of data to its experiments

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Accelerators
30 June, 2017
Accelerators
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30 June, 2017

Marie Curie, women and science, then and now

Hélène Langevin-Joliot, physicist and granddaughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, will give a lecture at CERN on 29 June 8.30 p.m. – follow the webcast!

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At CERN
29 June, 2017

Lithuania to become Associate Member of CERN

Today, the representatives of CERN and of the Government of Lithuania signed an Agreement admitting Lithuania as an Associate Member of CERN. The Government of India still needs to notify CERN of its final approval for the Agreement to enter into force.

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At CERN
27 June, 2017
At CERN
Press release
27 June, 2017

The future of the LHC takes shape

New magnets designed for the High-Luminosity LHC - the Large Hadron Collider upgrade project – are in the prototype phase

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Accelerators
23 June, 2017
Accelerators
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23 June, 2017

CERN’s American sibling Fermilab turns 50

A look back at fifty years of Fermilab’s history, as it celebrates a half-century of scientific achievement today

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Experiments
15 June, 2017
Experiments
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15 June, 2017

High-school physicists win chance to run experiments at CERN

CERN today announced the winners of its 2017 Beamline for Schools competition: Charging Cavaliers, from Canada, and TCO-ASA, from Italy

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At CERN
13 June, 2017

Follow the fantastic voyage of the ICARUS detector

Watch our Facebook Live to learn more about the world’s largest neutrino particle hunter and how it will journey to Fermilab

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Experiments
12 June, 2017

Discover the hidden treasures of CERN’s archive

9 June is International Archives Day and an opportunity to browse CERN’s rich archive

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At CERN
09 June, 2017

LHC’s objective: maximum intensity

The LHC has been accelerating more and more protons, and to allow the machine to reach its maximum intensity, it will undergo a thorough scrubbing.

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Accelerators
06 June, 2017
Accelerators
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06 June, 2017