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The proton, a century on

A century after physicist Ernest Rutherford published work proving the existence of the proton, much remains to be learnt about this ubiquitous particle

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12 June, 2019
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12 June, 2019

CMS hunts for dark photons coming from the Higgs boson

The CMS collaboration has searched for collision events in which the Higgs boson transforms into a photon and a hypothetical dark photon

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Physics
24 May, 2019

ATLAS surveys new supersymmetry territory

New studies from the ATLAS collaboration search for hypothetical “supersymmetric” particles around uncharted corners

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Physics
23 May, 2019

Moriond feels the strong force

Pentaquarks, charmed beauty particles and more from the Moriond conference’s second week, which is devoted to studies of the strong nuclear force

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Physics
02 April, 2019
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02 April, 2019

Celebrating 40 years of physics at CERN’s North Area

A symposium at CERN celebrates four decades of physics research at the Laboratory’s North Area

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Physics
02 April, 2019

Highlights from the 2019 Moriond conference (electroweak physics)

The latest experimental data provide more stringent tests of the Standard Model and of rare phenomena of the microworld

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Physics
29 March, 2019

LHCb experiment discovers a new pentaquark

The LHCb collaboration has observed a new pentaquark particle and has confirmed the pentaquark structure previously reported

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Physics
26 March, 2019

ATLAS observes light scattering off light

The ATLAS Collaboration has reported the observation of light-by-light scattering with a significance beyond eight standard deviations

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Physics
19 March, 2019

Report reveals full reach of LHC programme

A 1000+ page report quantifies the physics potential of the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider

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Physics
19 March, 2019

LHC beam pipe to be mined for monopoles

As-yet-undiscovered particles may lie waiting in tube that carried particles for collision within CMS

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Physics
15 March, 2019
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15 March, 2019