Data from the ATLAS experiment is a key element in HALO, an important new commission undertaken for Art Basel, the world’s premier fair for contemporary art. It’s the latest exciting outcome of Arts at CERN, which has become a major player in the world where art and science meet.
A ceremony at CERN on 15 June celebrated the start of civil-engineering works for the high-luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). The upgrade will allow about 10 times more data to be accumulated by […]
Muons have been accelerated by a radio-frequency accelerator for the first time, in an experiment performed at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) in Tokai, Japan. The work paves the way for a compact […]
On 2 May, the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, US, celebrated the completion of the 12 GeV CEBAF upgrade project. The $338 million upgrade has tripled CEBAF’s original operating energy and will allow, among other […]
Deep learning is bringing new levels of performance to the analysis of growing datasets in high-energy physics.
Ishfaq Ahmad 1930–2018 • Alberto Benvenuti 1940–2018
20 years since the discovery of neutrino oscillations, a complete understanding is within our grasp.
For decades, theoretical models of galaxy evolution have predicted that the supermassive black hole lying at the heart of the Milky Way is surrounded by thousands of smaller black holes left behind by dying stars. […]