Read article 'Celebrating a super partnership'
Celebrating a super partnership
The virtuous spiral between high-energy physics and superconductivity is never ending, says Lucio Rossi.
Read article 'Celebrating a super partnership'
Read article 'Discovering diamonds'
Discovering diamonds
Natural diamonds are old, almost as old as the planet itself. They mostly originated in the Earth’s mantle around 1 to 3.5 billion years ago and typically were brought to the surface during deep and...
Read article 'CMS undergoes tracker transplant'
CMS undergoes tracker transplant
At the beginning of March, the CMS collaboration successfully replaced the heart of its detector: the pixel tracker. This innermost layer of the CMS detector, a cylindrical device containing 124 milli...
Read article 'Looking forward to photon–photon physics'
Looking forward to photon–photon physics
As its name suggests, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN smashes hadrons into one another – protons, to be precise. The energy from these collisions gets converted into matter, producing new pa...
Read article 'Funding injection for SNOLAB'
Funding injection for SNOLAB
The SNOLAB laboratory in Ontario, Canada, has received a grant of $28.6m to help secure its next three years of operations. The facility is one of 17 research facilities to receive support through Can...
Read article 'ProtoDUNE revealed'
ProtoDUNE revealed
This 11 m-high structure with thick steel walls will soon contain a prototype detector for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), a major international project based in the US for studying...
Read article 'Crystal Clear celebrates 25 years of success'
Crystal Clear celebrates 25 years of success
Advanced scintillating materials have found their way into novel detectors for physics and medicine.
Read article 'CERN explores opportunities for physics beyond colliders'
CERN explores opportunities for physics beyond colliders
Our understanding of nature’s fundamental constituents owes much to particle colliders. Notable discoveries include the W and Z bosons at CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron in the 1980s, the top qua...
Read article 'AIDA-2020 calls for breakthrough detector technologies'
AIDA-2020 calls for breakthrough detector technologies
The European Union project AIDA-2020 (Advanced European Infrastructure for Detectors and Accelerators), in which CERN is a partner, has launched a proof-of-concept fund for breakthrough projects in th...
Read article 'Storage ring steps up search for electric dipole moments'
Storage ring steps up search for electric dipole moments
The fact that we and the world around us are made of matter and only minimal amounts of antimatter is one of the fundamental puzzles in modern physics, motivating a variety of theoretical speculations...
