Read article 'LHC milestones (archive)'
LHC milestones (archive)
Work for the LEP electron–positron collider continues to drive ahead, however LEP is far from being the last word in CERN's long term plans.
Read article 'LHC milestones (archive)'
Read article 'Early days: The challenges of the LHC (archive)'
Early days: The challenges of the LHC (archive)
It is generally considered that the starting point for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was an ECFA meeting in Lausanne in March 1984,although many of us had begun work on the design of the machine in ...
Read article 'Early days: The Evian experiment meeting (archive)'
Early days: The Evian experiment meeting (archive)
Compilation of two articles from 1992 talking about the construction of the LHC and its four detectors at the Evian experiment meeting.
Read article 'Early days: Lausanne LHC workshop (archive)'
Early days: Lausanne LHC workshop (archive)
The installation of a hadron collider in the LEP tunnel, using superconducting magnets, has always been foreseen by ECFA and CERN as the natural long term extension of the CERN facilities beyond LEP. ...
Read article 'Gas detectors advance into a second century'
Gas detectors advance into a second century
The latest developments in a technique dating back to Ernest Rutherford.
Read article 'Subatomic Physics (third edition)'
Subatomic Physics (third edition)
This is the third and fully updated edition of a classic textbook, which provides an up-to-date and lucid introduction to both particle and nuclear physics.
Read article 'Il fisico che visse due volte'
Il fisico che visse due volte
Antonella Del Rosso reviews in 2008 Il fisico che visse due volte.
Read article 'The story of measurement'
The story of measurement
Jens Vigen reviews in 2008 The story of measurement.
Read article 'I Am a Strange Loop'
I Am a Strange Loop
Carlos Lourenço reviews in 2008 I Am a Strange Loop.
Read article 'Particle physics proves that arsenic didn’t kill Napoleon'
Particle physics proves that arsenic didn’t kill Napoleon
A meticulous new examination performed at the INFN laboratories in Milano-Bicocca and Pavia in Italy has shown that arsenic poisoning did not kill Napoleon.
