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ATLAS end-caps 
on the move

Two delicate and spectacular transport operations have been performed for ATLAS in recent weeks: the first end-cap tracker was installed in its final position, and one of the huge end-caps of the toroid magnet was moved to the top of the experiment’s shaft. >>

A word from the DG: A cryogenic success

The beginning of this month saw the start of a new phase in the LHC project, with its first inauguration, for the LHC cryogenics. >>

Ready for the plunge!

Herman Ten Kate, Project Leader for the ATLAS magnet system, standing in front of the truck transporting the magnet across the Route de Meyrin. >>

President of Chile at CERN

The President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, in the ATLAS cavern with, from left to right, Peter Jenni, ATLAS Spokesman, Vivian Heyl, CONICYT President, and Robert Aymar, CERN Director-General. >>

High point for CERN and high-temperature superconductors

Amalia Ballarino is named the Superconductor Industry Person of the year 2006. >>

CERN Relay Race: No records broken in a bumper year

Tribute is paid to David Dallman, 20 times the organiser of the CERN Relay Race, who is now retiring. >>

Discovery Mondays " A family affair: the particle bestiary"

Pions, quarks, leptons, bosons, muons, kaons, electrons, gluons,... the world of the infinitesimally small is simply heaving with different types of particles with strange names. >>

Correction

From left to right: Luis, Carmen, Mario, Christian and José listening to speeches by theorists Alvaro De Rújula and Luis Alvarez-Gaumé (right) at their farewell gathering on 15 May. >>

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