Read article 'What’s next for OPERA’s emulsion-detection technology?'
Developed in the late 1990s, the OPERA detector design was based on a hybrid technology, using both real-time detectors and nuclear emulsions. The construction of the detector at the Gran Sasso...
Read article 'LHCb improves trigger in Run 2'
LHCb has significantly improved the trigger for the experiment during Run 2 of the LHC. The detector is now calibrated in real time, allowing the best possible event reconstruction in the trigger...
Read article 'RD51 and the rise of micro-pattern gas detectors'
Résumé RD51 et l’essor des détecteurs gazeux à micropistes En 2008 a été créée au CERN la collaboration RD51, répondant ainsi au besoin de dével...
Read article 'AIDA-2020 offers support to use facilities for detector development in Europe'
The Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors and Accelerators (AIDA-2020) – the largest European-funded project for joint detector development – is making financial support availabl...
Read article 'Stable beams at 13 TeV'
The LHC is back in business.
Read article 'LHC and Planck: where two ends meet'
Links between research at opposite ends of the distance scale.
Read article 'Frontier detectors for the future'
The last week of May saw a gathering of 390 physicists from 27 countries and four continents on the island of Elba.
Read article 'New possibilities for particle physics with IceCube'
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has measured neutrino oscillations via atmospheric muon-neutrino disappearance.
Read article 'The experiment now known as DUNE'
The long-baseline neutrino experiment formerly known as LBNE has a new name: Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE). Served by an intense neutrino beam from Fermilab’s Long Baseline Neutrino Fa...
Read article 'ALICE: from LS1 to readiness for Run 2'
It is nearly two years since the beams in the LHC were switched off and Long Shutdown 1 (LS1) began. Since then, a myriad of scientists and engineers have been repairing and consolidating the ...
