Read article 'Report reveals full reach of LHC programme'
The High-Luminosity LHC, scheduled to operate from 2026, will increase the instantaneous luminosity of the LHC by at least a factor of five beyond its initial design luminosity.
Read article 'China and Europe bid for post-LHC collider'
The discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC in the summer of 2012 set particle physics on a new course of exploration.
Read article 'A giant leap for physics'
A 100 km supercollider at CERN would open a new era in fundamental exploration
Read article 'First beam at SLAC plasma facility'
FACET-II, a new facility for accelerator research at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, has produced its first electrons. FACET-II is an upgrade to the Facility for Advanced Accelerat...
Read article 'Halfway to high luminosity'
Gathering at CERN for the 8th annual meeting of the HL-LHC
Read article 'The tale of a billion-trillion protons'
Linac2, the machine that feeds CERN’s accelerator complex with protons, has entered a well-deserved retirement after 40 years of service.
Read article 'Machine powers down until 2021'
The Large Hadron Collider’s 2018 proton physics run came to an end on 24 October, having accumulated an impressive dataset. The integrated luminosity delivered to both the ATLAS and CMS experiments...
Read article 'Plasma lenses promise smaller accelerators'
An international team has made an advance towards more compact particle accelerators, demonstrating that beams can be focused via a technique called active plasma lensing without reducing the beam qua...
Read article 'Meet the Extremely Brilliant Source'
The first high-energy fourth-generation synchrotron X-ray source takes shape at the ESRF in Grenoble
Read article 'Nobel work shines a light on particle physics'
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was shared between three researchers for groundbreaking inventions in laser physics. Half the prize went to Arthur Ashkin of Bell Laboratories in the US for his wo...
