Read article 'Reaching out from the European school'
Reaching out from the European school
The CERN–JINR European School of High-Energy Physics marks 25 years of teaching advanced topics in particle physics.
Read article 'Reaching out from the European school'
Read article 'Charting a course for advanced accelerators'
Charting a course for advanced accelerators
Progress in experimental particle physics is driven by advances in accelerators. The conversion of storage rings into colliders in the 1970s is one example, another is the use of superconducting magne...
Read article 'The physicist’s guide to the universe'
The physicist’s guide to the universe
Sometimes referred to as the bible of particle physics, during the last 60 years the Review of Particle Physics has become the number-one reference in the field.
Read article 'Birth of a symmetry'
Birth of a symmetry
Half a century ago, Steven Weinberg published a paper that unified the electromagnetic and weak interactions and revolutionised our understanding of the fundamental forces.
Read article 'Model physicist'
Model physicist
Steven Weinberg talks to CERN Courier about his seminal 1967 work and discusses where next for particle physics following the discovery of the Higgs boson.
Read article 'From the web to a start-up near you'
From the web to a start-up near you
The core mission of CERN is fundamental research in particle physics. Yet, as a publicly funded laboratory, it also has a remit to ensure that its technology and expertise deliver prompt and tangible ...
Read article 'Neutrinos on nuclei'
Neutrinos on nuclei
A major focus of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is to search for new phenomena that cannot be explained by the Standard Model of particle physics. In addition to sophisticated analysis...
Read article 'CERN strengthens ties with South Asia'
CERN strengthens ties with South Asia
In 2010, the CERN Council approved a radical shift in membership policy that opened full membership to non-European states.
Read article 'Injecting new life into the LHC'
Injecting new life into the LHC
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most famous and powerful of all CERN’s machines, colliding intense beams of protons at an energy of 13 TeV. But its success relies on a series of smaller mac...
Read article 'ITER’s massive magnets enter production'
ITER’s massive magnets enter production
As Matthew Chalmers reported in 2017, completion of the first toroidal-field coil for ITER demonstrates niobium-tin superconductor technology on a gigantic scale.
