Particles from space are raining on CMS. The collaboration is ready to use these cosmic rays, a natural particle source, to test a 'slice' of their detectors.
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The CERN Council took the bold and important decision of unanimously approving a European strategy for particle physics at a dedicated meeting held in Lisbon on 14 July.
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The Administrative Information Services (IT-AIS) group issued the 100000th CERN identity number on 20 June 2006... and fears of a bug proved unfounded
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From 3 to 5 July, CERN hosted the fifth EuroPython Conference bringing together 300 users of Python, an open source programming language, which is more and more appreciated, especially at CERN.
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It was a grand entourage for the first half of the CMS hadronic forward calorimeter (HF) that was escorted to Cessy, France by the police on 11 July.
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