Taming high-temperature superconductivity
Superconductivity is perhaps the most remarkable manifestation of quantum physics on the macroscopic scale. Discovered in 1911 by Kamerlingh Onnes, it preoccupied the most prominent physicists of the ...
Celebrating a super partnership
The virtuous spiral between high-energy physics and superconductivity is never ending, says Lucio Rossi.
Revamped HIE-ISOLDE serves experiments
CERN’s long-running radioactive-ion-beam facility ISOLDE, which produces beams for a wide range of scientific communities, has recently been upgraded to allow higher-energy beams. In July, the secon...
Powering the field forward
Particle physicists try to understand the environment that existed fractions of a second after the Big Bang by studying the behaviour of particles at high energies. Early studies relied on cosmic rays...
Souped up RF
Behind the size, complexity and physics goals of particle accelerators such as the LHC lies a simple physics principle worked out by Maxwell more than 150 years ago: when a charged particle passes th...
Superconductors and particle physics entwined
Superconductivity is a mischievous phenomenon. Countless superconducting materials were discovered following Onnes’ 1911 breakthrough, but none with the right engineering properties. Even today, mor...
Accelerator experts meet in Copenhagen
8th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC) takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark
Physics resumes at LHC
First stable beams in the LHC were declared on 23 May, just 25 days after the first beam was injected and almost three weeks ahead of schedule. Since then, interleaved with physics operation and remai...
LHC luminosity upgrade accelerates
CERN has recently implemented two important steps towards the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) – an upgrade that will increase the intensity of the LHC’s collisions significantly from the early 2020s....
Europe enters the extreme X-ray era
The past few decades have witnessed an explosion in X-ray sources and techniques, impacting science and technology significantly. Large synchrotron X-ray facilities around the world based on advanced ...
