Around 40 men from the fire brigades of CERN and the two Host States were put through their paces in an exercise with a scenario involving a fire between Points 6 and 7 of the LHC tunnel and the mysterious disappearance of a member of personnel.
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Like musical instruments in an orchestra, the main difficulty with the many detectors of LHCb is coaxing them into playing in harmony. On 8 February 2008, for the first time, the LHCb control room team managed to extract a symphony of data from an almost complete ensemble of LHCb detectors.
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A host of events and activities await visitors to the LHC Open Days on 5 and 6 April. A highlight will be the physics shows funded by the European Physical Society (EPS), which are set to surprise and challenge children and adults alike!
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A CERN engineer has just come back from a challenge of a lifetime. Together with two friends he drove 4000 miles in a car they found abandoned in a car park at CERN.
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A celebration marking the successful completion of the installation of all the normal conducting magnets in the LHC was held on 19 February.
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