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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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A half-day workshop took place last week at CERN on Hagedorn’s Legacy. It provided the forum for discussing the past, present and future of Hagedorn’s contributions to physics, 50 year’s after the publication of his seminal Nuovo Cimento paper…
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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…
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The latest advances in the measurement of the coupling of the strong interaction were discussed in a recent workshop on “High precision measurements of αs: from LHC to FCC-ee” held at CERN, 12-13 October 2015. The meeting brought together the…
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