Read article 'CERN explores opportunities for physics beyond colliders'
Our understanding of nature’s fundamental constituents owes much to particle colliders. Notable discoveries include the W and Z bosons at CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron in the 1980s, the top qua...
Read article 'AIDA-2020 calls for breakthrough detector technologies'
The European Union project AIDA-2020 (Advanced European Infrastructure for Detectors and Accelerators), in which CERN is a partner, has launched a proof-of-concept fund for breakthrough projects in th...
Read article 'Storage ring steps up search for electric dipole moments'
The fact that we and the world around us are made of matter and only minimal amounts of antimatter is one of the fundamental puzzles in modern physics, motivating a variety of theoretical speculations...
Read article 'Belle II super-B factory experiment takes shape at KEK'
Following in the footsteps of Belle at the KEKB facility, a new super-B factory will search for new weak interactions in the flavour sector.
Read article 'IceCube seeks to expand'
The IceCube experiment at the South Pole has been one of the pioneers of the field of neutrino astronomy. During a seven-year-long construction campaign that ended in 2010, the 325 strong IceC...
Read article 'Futures intertwined'
CERN and Fermilab have a rich history of scientific accomplishment. Fermilab, which is currently the only US laboratory fully devoted to particle physics, tends to favour fermions: the top and bottom ...
Read article 'Particle flow in CMS'
In hadron-collider experiments, jets are traditionally reconstructed by clustering photon and hadron energy deposits in the calorimeters. As the information from the inner tracking system is completel...
Read article 'AugerPrime looks to the highest energies'
The world’s largest cosmic-ray experiment, the Pierre Auger Observatory, is embarking on its next phase, named AugerPrime.
Read article 'ALICE selects gas electron multipliers for its new TPC'
The ALICE experiment is devoted to the study of strongly interacting matter, where temperatures are sufficiently high to overcome hadronic confinement, and the effective degrees of freedom are ...
Read article 'ATLAS and CMS upgrade proceeds to the next stage'
Résumé Le programme d’amélioration pour ATLAS et CMS passe à la phase suivante Le projet LHC haute luminosité permettra également d’étendre le programme ...
