Read article 'Advanced radiation detectors in industry'
The European Physical Society’s Technology and Innovation Group (EPS-TIG) was set up in 2011 to work at the boundary between basic and applied sciences, with annual workshops organized in col...
Read article 'LBNE prototype cryostat exceeds goals'
Scientists and engineers working on the design of the particle detector for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) celebrated a major success in January.
Read article 'Microelectronics at CERN: from infancy to maturity'
The start of the LAA project in 1986 propelled electronics at CERN into the era of microelectronics, and laid crucial foundations for the success of the LHC experiments.
Read article 'Silicon Solid State Devices and Radiation Detection'
Using their many years of experience both in research with silicon detectors and in giving lectures at various levels, Leroy and Rancoita address the fundamental principles of interactions between rad...
Read article 'A new focus on forward muons for the ALICE upgrade programme'
The ALICE experiment, with its state-of-the-art detection systems, produced a wealth of results during Run 1 of the LHC (2009–2013) – driving a new impetus in the field of heavy-ion collisions. W...
Read article 'TOTEM continues to pin down physics in the very forward region'
The TOTEM collaboration has made the first measurement of the double diffractive cross-section in the very forward region at the LHC, in a range in pseudorapidity where it has never been measured befo...
Read article 'First results from LUX on dark matter'
The collaboration that built and runs the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, operating in the Sanford Underground Research Laboratory, has released its first results in the search for weakly in...
Read article 'Fermilab gears up for an intense future'
A series of upgrades will deliver many more protons.
Read article 'LHCb plans for cool pixel detector'
As the first long shutdown since the start-up of the LHC continues, many teams at CERN are already preparing for future improvements in performance that were foreseen when the machine restarts after t...
Read article 'Genetic multiplexing: how to read more with less electronics'
Modern physics experiments often require the detection of particles over large areas with excellent spatial resolution.
