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Israel at CERN: Big Science and the ‘God Particle’

Israeli researchers from Technion, Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute play important roles in CERN research. And this has been the case for over 30 years.

|BySHLOMO MAITAL
The writer at the CERN conference in Geneva.
A general view of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment is seen during a media visit at the Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in the French village of Saint-Genis-Pouilly near Geneva in Switzerland, July 23, 2014

Neutrinos detected in particle collider for first time at CERN

For the first time, neutrinos produced in a particle accelerator have been detected.

|ByTZVI JOFFRE
Professor Eliezer Rabinovici

Prof. Eliezer Rabinovici is the new president of the CERN Council

CERN is an international organization located in Geneva that focuses on particle research.

|ByARIELLA MARSDEN
ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN

TAU researchers further understanding of 'God particle' at CERN

Scientists found that the decay of the Higgs boson into "charm" quarks doesn't deviate from the Standard Model of particle physics.

|ByTZVI JOFFRE