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Get connected: Consolidating LHC splices

Watch Jean-Phillipe Tock of the Technology department explain how CERN technicians are upgrading interconnections on the Large Hadron Collider

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Engineering
19 March, 2013
Engineering
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19 March, 2013

£1 million Engineering prize honours web pioneers

The inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering went to five engineers whose work led to the internet and the World Wide Web

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Computing
18 March, 2013

Still making tracks: Eighty years of the positron

Eighty years ago today, Physical Review published a paper by Carl Anderson announcing the discovery of the positron – the electron’s antiparticle

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Physics
15 March, 2013

New results indicate that new particle is a Higgs boson

With two and a half times more data analysed than in July last year, ATLAS and CMS find that the new particle looks more and more like a Higgs boson

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Physics
14 March, 2013

ATLAS releases animated particle plots

The ATLAS collaboration has just released four animations showing how signals of new particles can emerge from LHC collision data

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Accelerators
12 March, 2013
Accelerators
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12 March, 2013

LHCb studies particle tipping the matter-antimatter scales

The LHCb experiment at CERN reports precise new measurements—but leaves open the question of why our matter-dominated universe exists

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Experiments
12 March, 2013

Explain it in 60 seconds: spin

Objects as large as a planet or as small as a photon can have the property of spin. Spin is also the reason we can watch movies in 3D.

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Physics
08 March, 2013
Physics
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08 March, 2013

A question of spin for the new boson

Physicists speaking today at the Moriond conference say that the new particle discovered at CERN last year is looking more and more like a Higgs boson

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Physics
06 March, 2013
Physics
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06 March, 2013

Ban Ki-moon visits CERN

On 1 March, UN’s Secretary-General visited CERN first since the Organization was granted Observer status at the UN General Assembly last December

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At CERN
04 March, 2013
At CERN
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04 March, 2013

ATLAS: now under new management

On 1 March, the ATLAS Collaboration welcomed a new spokesperson, Dave Charlton, and two new deputy spokespersons, Thorsten Wengler and Beate Heinemann

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Experiments
04 March, 2013
Experiments
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04 March, 2013