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The core of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) project is a hadron collider called "FCC-hh" which aims at colliding proton beams with a centre of mass energy of 100 TeV - more than seven times the energy that can be reached in the LHC. A…

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The end of year is traditionally the time when SFT makes new releases of our main software products. It is a very busy time with everyone working energetically to meet various deadlines. All last minute changes and fixes need to be integrated and…

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The NA62 experiment is the successor of a previous kaon decay experiment (NA48) operated in the same experimental area at the CERN SPS (see Fig.1). In December 2008, the CERN Research Board has authorized the collaboration to build new detectors,…

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Although they lack the fundamental significance of the constants of Nature, powers of 10 have symbolic importance in human culture. Attaining the age of 100 years is rare enough to be celebrated in many ways around the world. We regularly…

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The 10th meeting of the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG) was held at CERN from the 5th to the 7th of November 2015.  IPPOG is an international network of physicists, science communicators and educators from all CERN member…

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The CERN PH/SFT group has participated for the fifth consecutive year in the 2015 Google Summer of Code programme. 14 students have been funded by Google to work for 3 months during the summer on CERN open source software projects. The projects…

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Three years after the announcement of the discovery of a new particle, the Higgs boson, the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations have recently presented for the first time combined measurements of many of its properties, at the third annual Large Hadron…