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The LHC shows its teeth each time protons misbehave
On 15 December, the LHC experiments ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb reviewed their recent experimental results
On 1 October 1992, the newly formed ATLAS and CMS collaborations both submitted letters of intent for the construction of their detectors
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Discover how experimental physicists build their incredible experiments and massive collaborations
The LHCP2016 conference presents new physics results on data collected in 2015 at the LHC
The LHC and its experiments are back in action, now taking physics data for 2016
Quiet beams declared in the LHC as the first test collisions are made
The two general-purpose LHC experiments have unveiled analyses of data collected in 2015 from proton collisions at an energy of 13 TeV