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Setting up ALPHA-2 to measure the properties of antimatter

The ALPHA-2 team is installing the final components for their new antimatter experiment, which will replace the current ALPHA set-up

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Experiments
22 November, 2012
Experiments
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22 November, 2012

A bouquet of options: Higgs factory ideas bloom

Proposals to build colliders that churn out the new Higgs-like particle are gathering momentum. But what would these colliders look like?

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Physics
21 November, 2012

LHC report: Level best

The number of the events the detector can handle per bunch crossing is limited. Even so, LHCb wants to integrate as much luminosity as possible

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Accelerators
20 November, 2012
Accelerators
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20 November, 2012

Seminar in honour of Chris Llewellyn Smith

An all-day seminar at CERN today will celebrate the career of the ex-Director-General of CERN

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At CERN
20 November, 2012
At CERN
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20 November, 2012

Vidyo - a collaborative tool for planet CERN

CERN is moving to a new videoconferencing system called Vidyo

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At CERN
19 November, 2012
At CERN
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19 November, 2012

William J Willis (1932-2012)

Physicist with wide-ranging interests who brought a new detector concept to CERN in the 1970s

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At CERN
19 November, 2012
At CERN
Obituary
19 November, 2012

Paul Beynel (1944-2012)

Member of the Radiation Protection group who tested materials and components that were used in the construction of the SPS

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At CERN
19 November, 2012
At CERN
Obituary
19 November, 2012

Reminder: Changes in family situation are to be declared promptly

All changes in the family situation of members of the personnel (employed or associated) have to be declared without delay and in writing to CERN

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At CERN
19 November, 2012
At CERN
Official news
19 November, 2012

Our top priority

It is important to plan ahead, particularly since the lead times for new projects in particle physics are long, and our field is increasingly global

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At CERN
19 November, 2012
At CERN
Opinion
19 November, 2012

Clinical trials using carbon ions begin at CNAO

This week, for the first time at the CNAO hadrontherapy centre in Italy, a beam of carbon ions was used to treat a cancer patient

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Knowledge sharing
16 November, 2012
Knowledge sharing
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16 November, 2012