Read article 'ALICE looks to the future'
After more than three years of highly successful operation, the ALICE detector is about to undergo a major programme of consolidation and upgrade during the Long Shutdown 1 (LS1) of CERN’s ac...
Read article 'Birth of a Higgs boson'
How the new particle of 2012 has this year acquired a name.
Read article 'The scent of discovery: a visit to CERN in late 1982'
Lalit Sehgal experienced an increased curiosity in electroweak physics at CERN in the weeks leading up to the discovery of the W and Z bosons.
Read article 'Finding the W and Z'
Thirty years ago, CERN made scientific history with the discoveries of the W and Z bosons. Here, we reprint an extract from the special issue of CERN Courier that commemorated this breakthrough.
Read article 'Participants and spectators at the heavy-ion fireball'
To see how much of a heavy ion participates in a collision, ALICE must determine a key parameter – centrality.
Read article 'The EMC effect still puzzles after 30 years'
The unexpected result from 30 years ago is still in the minds of today's physicists.
Read article 'CMS prepares for the future'
There will be no rest at Point 5, site of the CMS detector, during the long shutdown
Read article 'The LHC’s worldwide computer'
Mid-February marked the end of the first three-year run of the LHC. While the machine exceeded all expectations, delivering significantly more data to the experiments than initially foreseen, h...
Read article 'Plumbing the depths of neutron stars'
New techniques developed by the ISOLTRAP collaboration are allowing investigations of a possible birthplace of the heavy elements.
Read article 'Michel Borghini and the rise of polarized targets'
Colleagues and friends recall the work of a pioneer of a key technique in high-energy particle physics.
