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LHC to run at 4 TeV per beam in 2012 Geneva, 13 February 2012. CERN 1 today announced that the LHC will run with a beam energy of 4 TeV this year, 0.

Serbia set to become Associate Member State of CERN Geneva, 16 December 2011. At its 161st meeting at CERN 1 today, the CERN Council unanimously voted to admit the Republic of Serbia to Associate Membership as the pre-stage to Membership of CERN.

European particle physics plots course for the future Geneva, 15 December 2011. CERN 1 Council today announced an Open Symposium to be held on 10-13 September 2012 at Cracow, Poland for the purpose of updating the European Strategy for Particle Physics.

ATLAS and CMS experiments present Higgs search status 13 December 2011. In a seminar held at CERN 1 today, the ATLAS 2 and CMS 3 experiments presented the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. Their results are based on the analysis of considerably more data than those presented at the summer conferences, sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, but not enough to make any conclusive statement on the existence or non-existence of the elusive Higgs.

First Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN laureate announced Geneva 6 December 2011.

CERN has 2020 vision for LHC upgrade Geneva, 16 November 2011.

Lund, 13 October 2011. For the first time, international experts on energy and representatives from large-scale laboratories are getting together to explore new ideas on energy management, identify best practices and implement ways of effective collaboration.

CERN sets course for extra-low-energy antiprotons Geneva, 28 September 2011. The kick-off meeting for ELENA, the Extra Low Energy Antiproton Ring, starts today at CERN 1 . Approved by CERN Council in June this year, ELENA is scheduled to deliver its first antiprotons in 2016. This week's kick-off meeting brings together scientists from Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the UK and the USA.

CERN Director General Rolf Heuer, Israeli Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, H.E. Mr. Aharon Leshno-Yaar and CERN Council president Michel Spiro shake hands.

CERN's LHCb experiment takes precision physics to a new level Geneva, 26 August 2011. Results to be presented by CERN 1 's LHCb experiment at the biennial Lepton-Photon conference in Mumbai, India on Saturday 27 August are becoming the most precise yet on particles called B mesons, which provide a way to investigate matter-antimatter asymmetry.

LHC experiments present latest results at Mumbai conference Geneva, 22 August 2011. Results from the ATLAS and CMS collaborations, presented at the biennial Lepton-Photon conference in Mumbai, India today, show that the elusive Higgs particle, if it exists, is running out of places to hide. Proving or disproving the existence the Higgs boson, which was postulated in the 1960s as part of a mechanism that would confer mass on fundamental particles, is among the main goals of the LHC scientific programme.

CERN supports European Year of Volunteering through Citizen Cyberscience Centre Geneva, 8 August 2011.

CERN experiment weighs antimatter with unprecedented accuracy Geneva, 28 July 2011. the Japanese-European ASACUSA experiment at CERN 1 reported a new measurement of the antiproton's mass accurate to about one part in a billion. Precision measurements of the antiproton mass provide an important way to investigate nature's apparent preference for matter over antimatter.

Geneva, 21 July 2011. The first of the major summer conferences for particle physics opens today in Grenoble. All of the LHC experiments will be presenting results, and a press conference is scheduled for Monday 25 July. The conference follows an extremely successful start to LHC running in 2011, and results are eagerly awaited.

CERN launches Open Hardware initiative Geneva, 7 July 2011. Four months after launching the alpha version, CERN 1 has today issued version 1.1 of the Open Hardware Licence (OHL), a legal framework to facilitate knowledge exchange across the electronic design community.

CERN Council looks forward to summer conferences and new members Geneva, 24 June 2011.

LHC achieves 2011 data milestone Geneva, 17 June 2011. Today at around 10:50 CEST, the amount of data accumulated by LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS clicked over from 0.999 to 1 inverse femtobarn, signalling an important milestone in the experiments' quest for new physics.

CERN experiment traps antimatter atoms for 1000 seconds Geneva, 5 June 2011. In a paper published online by today, the ALPHA experiment at CERN 1 reports that it has succeeded in trapping antimatter atoms for over 16 minutes: long enough to begin to study their properties in detail. ALPHA is part of a broad programme at CERN's antiproton decelerator (AD) 2 investigating the mysteries of one of nature's most elusive substances.

LHC Experiments Present New Results at Quark Matter 2011 Conference Geneva, 23 May 2011. The three LHC experiments that study lead ion collisions all presented their latest results today at the annual Quark Matter conference, held this year in Annecy, France. The results are based on analysis of data collected during the last two weeks of the 2010 LHC run, when the LHC switched from protons to lead-ions.

Update 16 May 2011: Shuttle Endeavour launched successfully at 14:56 CEST Update 10 May 2011: Shuttle launch delayed - launch now planned 16 May 2011.

LHC sets world record beam intensity Geneva, 22 April 2011. Around midnight this night CERN 1 ’s Large Hadron Collider set a new world record for beam intensity at a hadron collider when it collided beams with a luminosity of 4.67 × 10 32 cm -2 s -1 .

CERN announces LHC to run in 2012 Geneva, 31 January 2011. CERN 1 today announced that the LHC will run through to the end of 2012 with a short technical stop at the end of 2011.

LHC experiments bring new insight into primordial universe Geneva, 26 November 2010. After less than three weeks of heavy-ion running, the three experiments studying lead ion collisions at the LHC have already brought new insight into matter as it would have existed in the very first instants of the Universe’s life.

CERN completes transition to lead-ion running at the LHC Geneva, 8 November 2010. Four days is all it took for the LHC operations team at CERN 1 to complete the transition from protons to lead ions in the LHC.

The ATLAS collaboration at CERN unveils giant mural Geneva, 6 October 2010.

CERN Council approves the Laboratory's Medium Term Plan Geneva, 17 September 2010. During an intense series of meetings, which concludes today, the CERN 1 Council overwhelmingly approved the laboratory's revised Medium Term Plan for the period 2011 to 2015.

Be a researcher for an evening on European researchers' night, Friday 24 September Geneva, 16 September 2010.

AMS experiment takes off for Kennedy Space Center Geneva, 18 August 2010 . The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), an experiment that will search for antimatter and dark matter in space, leaves CERN 1 next Tuesday on the next leg of its journey to the International Space Station. The AMS detector 2 is being transported from CERN to Geneva International Airport in preparation for its planned departure from Switzerland on 26 August, when it will be flown to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on board a US Air Force Galaxy transport aircraft.

ICHEP 2010 conference highlights first results from the LHC Geneva, 26 July 2010. First results from the LHC at CERN 1 are being revealed at ICHEP, the world's largest international conference on particle physics, which has attracted more than 1000 participants to its venue in Paris. The spokespersons of the four major experiments at the LHC - ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb - are today presenting measurements from the first three months of successful LHC operation at 3.

Geneva, 8 July 2010 - Picture this: For the first time, amateur photographers around the world collide with the past, present and future of particle physics.

Geneva 3 June 2010. Following a workshop hosted by the CERN 1 European particle physics laboratory in February, doctors and physicists today published a strategy for harnessing physics for health.

Researchers announced the first direct observation of a tau particle in a muon neutrino beam sent through the Earth from CERN, 730km away. This is a significant result, providing the final missing piece of a puzzle that has been challenging science since the 1960s, and giving tantalizing hints of new physics to come.

Geneva, 30 March 2010. Beams collided at 7 TeV in the LHC at 13:06 CEST, marking the start of the LHC research programme. Particle physicists around the world are looking forward to a potentially rich harvest of new physics as the LHC begins its first long run at an energy three and a half times higher than previously achieved at a particle accelerator.

Geneva, 23 March 2010. With beams routinely circulating in the Large Hadron Collider at 3. TeV, the highest energy yet achieved in a particle accelerator, CERN has set the date for the start of the LHC research programme. The first attempt for collisions at 7 TeV (3. TeV per beam) is scheduled for 30 March.

Geneva, 19 March 2010. At just after 5:20 this morning, two 3. TeV proton beams successfully circulated in the Large Hadron Collider for the first time. This is the highest energy yet achieved in a particle accelerator, and an important step on the way to the start of the LHC research programme. The first attempt to collide beams at 7 TeV (3.

Geneva, 4 March 2010. On Monday 8 March, CERN 1 will take on a distinctly feminine look as the laboratory celebrates the role of women in physics. Often seen as a male preserve, the reality is rather different, with women playing key roles across all areas of CERN activity. "At CERN, and in particle physics the world over, talent is the only criterion that counts," said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer.

Geneva, 12 February 2010. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) left CERN 1 this morning on the first leg of its journey to the International Space Station (ISS). A special convoy carrying the experiment is due to arrive at the European Space Agency's research and technology centre, ESTEC, at Noordwijk in the Netherlands in six days time.

Geneva, 3 February 2010. The second edition of CinéGlobe, the international festival of short films and science documentaries, will be held from Tuesday, 16 February to Saturday, 20 February 2010.