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Introducing: The Grid
07 December 2011
Odds are, somewhere near you right now, computers are whirring all day and night frantically processing the latest ATLAS data. They're part of a system called the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid, or just "the Grid," for short, and without them we'd drow...
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Heavy ion time!
24 November 2011
It’s heavy ion season at the LHC again: the final month before the Christmas shutdown, where the LHC experiments take a collective twist and switch from studying proton collisions to studying lead ion collisions instead. I wasn’t quite su...
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Charming results that have got everybody thinking…
18 November 2011
I’m writing from the annual Hadron Collider Physics Symposium, which began on Monday in Paris, France. It’s organised jointly by LPNHE and the University of Paris VI & VII, with an excellent location right in the heart of the Latin Qu...
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Joining forces in the search for the Higgs
18 November 2011
Today we witnessed a landmark LHC first: At the HCP conference in Paris, friendly rivals, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations, came together to present a joint result! This ATLAS-CMS combined Higgs search was motivated by the fact that pooling the datas...
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