electron

The electron is a subatomic particle with a negative elementary electric charge.
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Accelerator Report: Preparing for 2025 LHC operation and setting goals

The Chamonix Workshop is in full swing, and the initial outlines of the 2025 LHC configuration and operational scenarios are beginning to take shape

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Accelerators
29 January, 2025
Accelerators
News
29 January, 2025

Fireball at HiRadMat

CERN’s HiRadMat facility restarts this week with a new experiment nicknamed “Fireball”, which will give new insights into extreme astrophysical phenomena such as gamma-ray bursts

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Experiments
24 May, 2023
Experiments
News
24 May, 2023

Intriguing new result from the LHCb experiment at CERN

The LHCb results strengthen hints of a violation of lepton flavour universality

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Physics
23 March, 2021

AWAKE achieves first ever acceleration of electrons in a proton-driven plasma wave

In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the AWAKE collaboration at CERN reports the first ever successful acceleration of electrons using a wave generated by protons zipping through a plasma.

Press release
Accelerators
29 August, 2018
Accelerators
Press release
29 August, 2018

Electrons at the LHC: a new beginning

A new committee is providing direction on the case for an electron–hadron collider, both at the LHC and at a Future Circular Collider complex

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Accelerators
02 July, 2014
Accelerators
News
02 July, 2014