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A word from the Deputy Head of the EP department - June 2022

Dear Colleagues, dear Members of the EP Department and CERN Users, It is a pleasure to introduce the summer issue of the EP newsletter. Ten years after the Higgs discovery in July 2012, CERN is preparing to enter full physics mode! As you read this…

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A word from the EP Deputy Department Head - March 2022

Dear Colleagues in EP, Welcome to the first edition of the EP newsletter in 2022. Let me take a few words to introduce myself – my name is Richard Hawkings, and I started as one of the two deputy department heads in January, taking over from Roger…

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A word from the Deputy Department Head of EP - September 2020

Dear Colleagues, dear Members of the EP Department and CERN Users, Welcome to the autumn edition of the EP Newsletter, as the change of weather heralds the new season. You will notice that the look and feel has changed a little, as this is the…

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A word from the Head of the EP department - June 2020

Dear Colleagues, dear Members of the EP Department and CERN Users, This edition of the newsletter marks the end of the first half of 2020. Since a few months the whole world has been going through an unprecedented crisis, and so has CERN. We were…

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A word from the Head of the EP department - April 2020

Dear Colleagues, dear Members of the EP Department and CERN Users, I am writing this editorial while on telework from home. We are in an unprecedented situation, which would have been unimaginable only one month ago. In this month we have seen the…

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A word from the Head of the EP department - December 2019

Dear Colleagues, dear Members of the EP Department and CERN Users, Another year turns to its end. It was the first year of the Long Shutdown 2 with all the accelerators stopped at CERN. This didn’t mean that we were idling in EP. On the contrary,…

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A word from the Head of the EP department - June 2019

Dear Colleagues, dear Members of the EP Department and CERN Users, It is a pleasure to introduce this edition of the EP newsletter. Once again the newsletter contains many articles covering the broad spectrum of activities in our department. You…

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A word from the Deputy Head of the EP department - March 2019

Dear Colleagues, dear Members of the EP Department and CERN Users, Welcome to the first EP newsletter of 2019. Following the completion of Run 2 at the end of last year we are now well established in the second long shutdown of the LHC, which will…

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A word from the Head of the EP department - December 2018

Dear Colleagues, dear Members of the EP Department and CERN Users, Welcome to the last EP newsletter of 2018. This year has been another great year for CERN. The LHC run has broken again all records, both for the proton-proton run, as well as for…

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A word from the Deputy Head of the EP department - September 2018

Welcome to the autumn issue of the EP newsletter! It has been a busy and exciting summer with a wealth of new results presented by the LHC experiments at international conferences. The first observation of Higgs boson coupling with top and bottom…

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