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Triggering at the LHC is a challenge: during Run-1 in ATLAS, the task was to select out of the 40 million bunch crossings per second the 1000 events most promising for data analysis. The first of three levels of this selection is the Level-1 trigger…

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Long Shutdown 1 officially came to an end on 5 April 2015, when a beam of protons circulated the LHC for the first time after two years. Following this long period of upgrades, repairs, and consolidation, the LHC is now ready to restart at 13 TeV,…

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Following two years of maintenance and consolidation work, the Long Shutdown 1 officially ended on 5 April 2015, when the first proton beams circulated the LHC. Now the LHC experiments are getting ready to operate once more and record the first…

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After the Higgs, how to best communicate LHC as a discovery machine? How to bring the masterclasses to new countries, age groups and settings? What makes a good educational game? How to join efforts in the existing national cosmic ray detector…

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Two ISOLDE scientists have received prestigious awards this year for their research in the field of nuclear and particle physics. Kara Marie Lynch was honoured with the GENCO Young Scientist award, which recognizes outstanding achievements of young…

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In a talk at the CERN auditorium on 14 April Nobel laureate and Former DG Carlo Rubbia reviewed the case for a muon-antimuon (µ+µ-) collider. The interest in building a so-called "second-generation" Higgs factory that would allow better studying…

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The 2015 European School of High-Energy Physics (formerly the CERN–JINR School of Physics) will take place from 2 to 15 September 2015 in Bansko, Bulgaria. It is organised and sponsored by CERN and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR),…

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Over the last weeks, while everyone has been excited with the restart of LHC, the NA62 experiment at CERN has already started producing data, following the circulation of the first beams in the injector chain in 2014. The experiment focuses in the…

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