Updates: April 2012
Forty years of the PS Booster
— The Proton Synchrotron (PS) Booster – a key accelerator in the CERN complex – is 40 years old this month
CMS discovers new particle – Meet the Ξb beauty baryon
— The detector measured a strong signal that gives the particle's mass as 5945.0 ± 2.8 MeV
Taking the measure of the kilogram
— Forget the new diet - you may weigh less in the morning anyway, thanks to an overhaul of the kilogram
ISOLDE to produce isotopes for medical research
— The CERN-MEDICIS project will use waste beams from ISOLDE to produce isotopes that could help in the war on cancer
LHC physics underway at record collision energy of 8TeV
— At 12.38pm CEST this morning, the LHC shift crew declared "stable beams"
COMPASS to point in new directions
— Two new phases of the COMPASS experiment will bring a powerful new look at quarks and gluons
Accelerating Science in Turkey
— CERN’s travelling exhibition will be showing at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey, for 4 months
