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  • Safety Frequently Asked Questions

    Have a look at the new FAQ concerning helmet (hard hat):

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  • LHC fill sets new luminosity record

    LHC fill sets new luminosity record

    Over the course of 16.5 hours ending Wednesday, Sept.

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  • The Ars Electronica Festival – 2011

    The Ars Electronica Festival – 2011

    CERN was a special guest this year at the famous Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria.

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  • Reminder: CERN is a non-smoking area

    A reminder on CERN Safety rules

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  • Measurement of the t-channel single Top-quark production rates in pp collisions at 7 TeV

    Measurement of the t-channel single Top-quark production rates in pp collisions at 7 TeV

    The Top quark is the heaviest of the six quarks of the Standard Model and was discovered only 16 years ago by the Tevatron experiments at Fermilab.

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  • Search for Supersymmetry at the LHC in Events with Jets and Missing Transverse Energy

    Search for Supersymmetry at the LHC in Events with Jets and Missing Transverse Energy

    Read the paper: SUS-11-003 The analysis shows no excess of events over the Standard Model expectations.

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  • CERN – Making wishes come true

    CERN – Making wishes come true

    It is well known that CERN is an open laboratory, welcoming visitors from around the world on a daily basis.

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  • Higgs particle could be found by Christmas

    Higgs particle could be found by Christmas

    The hunt for the Higgs particle is well ahead of schedule, say researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

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  • Atom-smashing hype faces reality

    Atom-smashing hype faces reality

    The latest results from the Large Hadron Collider serve as a reality check for expectations that radical scientific discoveries are just around the corner.

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  • A Higgs Setback: Did Stephen Hawking Just Win the Most Outrageous Bet in Physics History?

    A few years ago, celebrated British physicist Stephen Hawking was widely reported in the press to have placed a provocative public bet that the LHC (along with all particle accelerators that preceded it) would never find the Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle” believed responsible for having imbued massive particles with their mass when the…

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