Read article 'A labour of love'
A labour of love
Ten years on from the LHC's first high-energy collisions, Mark Rayner interviews some of the foremost detector experts on what it took to keep the experiments fighting fit.
Read article 'A labour of love'
Read article 'Crystal calorimeter hones Higgs mass'
Crystal calorimeter hones Higgs mass
This is the most precise measurement so far of a parameter with implications for the stability of the vacuum.
Read article 'Astronomers scale new summit'
Astronomers scale new summit
The world’s largest optical/near-infrared telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, under construction in Chile, will bring mysteries such as dark energy into focus.
Read article 'Taking the temperature of collider calorimetry'
Taking the temperature of collider calorimetry
Michele Livan and Richard Wigmans have written an up-to-date introduction to both the fundamental physics and the technical parameters.
Read article 'Tricky component? Use 3D printing…'
Tricky component? Use 3D printing…
Embedded radio-frequency (RF) cavities such as those featured in spiral-shaped cooling channels are one example.
Read article 'Cross-fertilisation in detector development'
Cross-fertilisation in detector development
More than 300 experts convened from 18-22 February for the 15th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation.
Read article 'Deciphering elementary particles'
Deciphering elementary particles
Former CERN physicist Christian Fabjan takes a whirlwind tour of 60 years of innovation in particle-detection technology at CERN and beyond.
Read article 'Physics Beyond Colliders initiative presents main findings'
Physics Beyond Colliders initiative presents main findings
Experiments have the potential to explore open questions in QCD and to search for hidden-sectors in which dark matter does not couple directly to Standard Model particles.
Read article 'Fixed target, striking physics'
Fixed target, striking physics
A strong tradition of innovation and ingenuity shows that, for CERN’s North Area, life really does begin at 40.
Read article 'German–Japanese centre to focus on precision physics'
German–Japanese centre to focus on precision physics
The Centre for Time, Constants and Fundamental Symmetries will offer access to ultra-sensitive equipment for atomic and nuclear physics, antimatter research, quantum optics and metrology.
