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  • LHC trials proton–lead collisions

    Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are analysing the results of their first attempt at colliding protons and lead ions.

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  • LHC trials proton–lead collisions

    Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are analysing the results of their first attempt at colliding protons and lead ions.

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  • The Weak Mixing of Light and Heavy

    The Weak Mixing of Light and Heavy

    The source of energy for most of the life on our planet originates from proton-proton collisions at the core of the Sun, which occur at an energy (or temperature) about a billion times less than the collision energy of the LHC.

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  • LHC to probe early universe in best detail yet

    The Large Hadron Collider will spend four weeks probing the conditions of the early universe in better detail than ever before, as it takes a break from the hunt for the Higgs boson…

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  • ATLAS and CMS combine summer ’11 search limits on the Standard Model Higgs

    ATLAS and CMS combine summer ’11 search limits on the Standard Model Higgs

    By combining their data ATLAS and CMS increase their sensitivity in the Higgs boson search

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  • Summary of 2011 p-p running

    Summary of 2011 p-p running

    At 17:00 on Sunday 30th October the LHC dumped the last proton beams for the year to start the machine development period and to prepare for heavy ion running.

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  • PHYSICS in the afternoon today (Oct 21)

    The machine just announced going to Proton Physics today in the afternoon since ~5pm.

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  • Lepton fizz – search for excited leptons

    Lepton fizz – search for excited leptons

    Grab a can of soda, shake it thoroughly, and open it up.

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  • LHC delivers 5 inverse femtobarns

    LHC delivers 5 inverse femtobarns

    The LHC has now delivered 5 inverse femtobarns (fb−1) of data in 2011, of which CMS has collected 4.53 fb−1.

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  • Italian Olympiad Winners visit CERN

    Italian Olympiad Winners visit CERN

    This year, for the first time, the winners of the Italian Physics, Mathematics and Informatics Olympiads received an unforgettable reward from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR): a trip to CERN.

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