Read article 'CMS gears up for the LHC data deluge'
CMS gears up for the LHC data deluge
A trigger upgrade helps CMS tame collision environment of LHC Run 2
Read article 'CMS gears up for the LHC data deluge'
Read article 'Storage ring steps up search for electric dipole moments'
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'
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 'MAX IV paves the way for ultimate X-ray microscope'
MAX IV paves the way for ultimate X-ray microscope
Novel machine lattice produces brightest ever X-ray beams.
Read article 'Ghosts in the machine'
Ghosts in the machine
In July 1956, in a brief paper published in Science, a small team based at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US presented results from an experiment at a new, powerful fission reactor at the S...
Read article 'Neutrinos take centre stage'
Neutrinos take centre stage
When CERN was founded in 1954, the neutrino was technically still a figment of theorists’ imaginations. Six decades later, neutrinos have become the most studied of all elementary particles. Several...
Read article 'DUMAND and the origins of large neutrino detectors'
DUMAND and the origins of large neutrino detectors
In 1976, neutrinos did not yet have the prominent role in particle physics that they play today. Postulated by Pauli in 1930, they had been said to be undetectable due to their tiny interaction...
Read article 'Japan eyes up its future'
Japan eyes up its future
Japan has been a leader in the global neutrino community since the 1980s, breaking ground (both literally and figuratively) with multiple generations of massive underground experiments. These e...
Read article 'NOvA releases new bounds on neutrino mixing parameters'
NOvA releases new bounds on neutrino mixing parameters
The breakthrough results from the Super-Kamiokande and SNO experiments, which showed that neutrinos oscillate between their three flavours, marked the start of nearly two decades of tremendous ...
Read article 'A portal to new physics'
A portal to new physics
The 1998 discovery that neutrinos can oscillate between different flavours, by the Super-Kamiokande experiment in Japan and subsequently by the SNO experiment in Canada, marked a turning point ...
