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After 40 years, CERN finds evidence of a one-in-10-billion particle decay • Nov. 9, 2026, 7:44 PM ET (Science Daily)

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Also Known As European Organization for Nuclear Research • Organisation Européene pour la Recherche Nucléaire • Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
Date 1954 - present
Headquarters Geneva
Areas Of Involvement subatomic particle • particle accelerator • proton synchrotron • Large Electron-Positron collider • Super Proton Synchrotron • Intersecting Storage Rings • Large Hadron Collider • particle physics • scientific research
Related People Werner Heisenberg • Tim Berners-Lee • Carlo Rubbia • Isidor Isaac Rabi • Georges Charpak • Simon van der Meer • Felix Bloch • Jack Steinberger

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Large Hadron Collider
Computer-generated diagram showing particle tracks from a proton-antiproton collision at the center of the UA1 detector at CERN, with labeled paths for electron and positron.
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