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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.
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
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
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
W boson published 30 years ago
On 24 February 1983 the journal <em>Physics Letters B</em> published a paper by the UA1 collaboration describing the discovery of the W boson
Colliders Unite: Linear Colliders in new partnership
The Linear Collider Collaboration unites global development work for a next-generation particle collider
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
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
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
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