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Fabiola Gianotti, the first woman Director-General of CERN

Posted on November 5, 2014 by

The CERN Council has elected a new Director-General to succeed the incumbent Rolf-Dieter Heuer. Fabiola Gianotti, who served as the ATLAS collaboration’s spokesperson from 2009 to 2013 – a period that included the discovery of the long-sought Higgs boson by … Continue reading →

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After the Higgs-boson-like particle, what’s next?

Posted on July 5, 2012 by

This article, as written by me, appeared in print in The Hindu on July 5, 2012. — The ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus) collaboration at CERN has announced the sighting of a Higgs boson-like particle in the energy window of 125.3 … Continue reading →

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Hunt for the Higgs boson: A quick update

Posted on July 4, 2012 by

And it was good news after all! In an announcement made earlier today at the special conference called by CERN near Geneva, the discovery of a Higgs-boson-like particle was announced by physicists from the ATLAS and CMS collaborations that spearheaded … Continue reading →

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