Culture and history Archives – Page 5 of 101

Austria and CERN celebrate 60 years

Associated in bygone days with the UA1 and DELPHI, today hundreds of Austrian scientists contribute to CERN’s experimental programme.

The interior of a radio-frequency cavity

The rise of French particle physics

Founded 80 years ago, the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) is one of Europe’s largest research institutions.

L’intérieur d’une cavité de radiofréquence

L’essor de la physique des particules en France

Fondé il y a 80 ans, le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), en France, est l’une des plus importantes institutions de recherche en Europe.

LEP’s electroweak leap

In the autumn of 1989 the Large Electron Positron collider (LEP) delivered the first of several results that still dominate the landscape of particle physics today.

A quadrupole next to one of the long dipole magnets in LEP

The greatest lepton collider

LEP was the highest energy e+e– collider ever built, with levels of precision that remain unsurpassed in accelerator physics. Former CERN director of accelerators Steve Myers tells LEP’s story fro...

Artistic view of the Brout-Englert-Higgs field. Credit: D Dominguez/CERN.

CERN and the Higgs Boson

James Gillies’ slim volume conveys the excitement of the hunt for the Higgs.

Music of the muons

Music and dance troupe Les Atomes Dansants use muon tracks from W, Z and Higgs events in CMS data to explore the links between science and art.

The Large Electron Positron collider changed particle physics forever. As the field eyes up the next major collider, former CERN Director-General Herwig Schopper describes what it took to make LEP hap...