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After a long shutdown period, the PS has finally been put into operation and ALICE is making extensive use of it in the East Area. The main goal of these test beams is to qualify new protoypes, calibrate the detectors and to check its electronics,…
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The upgrade of the ATLAS detector calls for a new generation of muon detectors capable of operating in a flux of collision and background particles approximately ten times larger compared to today's conditions. The new technology of micromegas…
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What are the big ideas in science that will help us address tomorrow’s major global challenges? Hosted by Brian Cox (Manchester and ATLAS), TEDxCERN will bring together inspirational speakers from around the world who have ideas worth sharing. The…
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On 7 September, the winners of the Beam line for schools competition will arrive at CERN to claim their prizes. The two teams of high-school students – Odysseus' Comrades from Varvakios Pilot School in Athens, Greece and Dominicuscollege from…
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The CERN injectors, up to the PS, started operations mid-June. The long-running ISOLDE radioactive ion-beam facility on the PS Booster resumed operations by the end of July. Several experiments that use protons from the PS are already…
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The evidence that some invisible (“dark”) matter exists in the universe was first observed many decades ago, by the Swiss physicist Fritz Zwicky in 1933, among others, from studying the relative movement of stars and galaxies, and was more recently…
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The first PATRAS Workshop took place at CERN in 2005. Last July, it returned to CERN for its tenth anniversary. The initial aim of this series of workshops was to provide academic training to the new generations of scientists working within the…
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CERN has a longstanding tradition of pursuing fundamental physics on extreme low and high energy scales. The present physics knowledge is successfully described by the Standard Model and the General Relativity. In the anti-matter regime many…
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