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AMS experiment marks one year in space

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the ISS has been taking data for a year. The shuttle crew that took it to space visited CERN to mark the occasion

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At CERN
25 July, 2012
At CERN
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25 July, 2012

Tweetup at CERN today: #CERNtweetup

Tweetup to coincide with the visit of Nasa astronauts to the AMS experiment at CERN

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Experiments
25 July, 2012
Experiments
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25 July, 2012

Proposal to use CERN accelerator for biomedical research

Discussions under way for possible re-use of LEIR accelerator

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Accelerators
23 July, 2012

Large Hadron Collider run to be extended by seven weeks

LHC will run for a further seven weeks in a bid to maximize data for physics following the latest Higgs-search update

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Accelerators
21 July, 2012

Higgs within reach

Our understanding of the universe is about to change…

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Physics
04 July, 2012
Physics
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04 July, 2012

Collaboration to build new antiproton decelerator

The Extra Low Energy Antiproton ring (ELENA) will further slow antiprotons from the Antiproton Decelerator, to make them easier to trap

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Physics
28 June, 2012

LHC experiments prepare for summer conferences

CERN physicists are frantically analysing data in the run-up to ICHEP 2012, this year's major particle-physics conference in Melbourne, Australia

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Accelerators
27 June, 2012

LHC delivers more collisions than in the whole of 2011



Excellent accelerator performance and a higher running energy has ensured the LHC has delivered collisions quickly this year

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Accelerators
13 June, 2012

Full moon pulls LHC from its protons

The LHC is so large that operators have to correct for a surprising source of error - the moon's gravitational pull

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Accelerators
07 June, 2012
Accelerators
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07 June, 2012

Two beautiful new particles

The LHCb collaboration has observed two new excited states of the Λb beauty particle, confirming Standard-Model predictions

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Experiments
30 May, 2012
Experiments
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30 May, 2012