Astronomers scale new summit
The world’s largest optical/near-infrared telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, under construction in Chile, will bring mysteries such as dark energy into focus.
Taking the temperature of collider calorimetry
Michele Livan and Richard Wigmans have written an up-to-date introduction to both the fundamental physics and the technical parameters.
Tricky component? Use 3D printing…
Embedded radio-frequency (RF) cavities such as those featured in spiral-shaped cooling channels are one example.
Cross-fertilisation in detector development
More than 300 experts convened from 18-22 February for the 15th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation.
Deciphering elementary particles
Former CERN physicist Christian Fabjan takes a whirlwind tour of 60 years of innovation in particle-detection technology at CERN and beyond.
Physics Beyond Colliders initiative presents main findings
Experiments have the potential to explore open questions in QCD and to search for hidden-sectors in which dark matter does not couple directly to Standard Model particles.
Fixed target, striking physics
A strong tradition of innovation and ingenuity shows that, for CERN’s North Area, life really does begin at 40.
German–Japanese centre to focus on precision physics
The Centre for Time, Constants and Fundamental Symmetries will offer access to ultra-sensitive equipment for atomic and nuclear physics, antimatter research, quantum optics and metrology.
Large Hadron Collider: the experiments strike back
During the next two years of long-shutdown two (LS2), the LHC and its injectors will be tuned up for high-luminosity operations.
Actinide series shown to end with lawrencium
Scientists have determined the ionisation potentials from fermium to lawrencium, confirming the filling of the 5f shell in the heavy actinides.
