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SwissFEL carries out first experiment

The free-electron X-ray laser SwissFEL at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland has hosted its inaugural experiment, marking the facility’s first science result and demonstrating that its...

Baby MIND takes first steps

In mid-October, a neutrino detector that was designed, built and tested at CERN was loaded onto four trucks to begin a month-long journey to Japan. Once safely installed at the J-PARC laboratory in To...

EU project lights up X-band technology

Advanced linear-accelerator (linac) technology developed at CERN and elsewhere will be used to develop a new generation of compact X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), thanks to a €3 million project...

Construction of protoDUNE detector begins

The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) in the US, the cavern for which entered construction this summer, will make precision studies of neutrinos produced 1300 km away at Fermilab as part o...

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...

Unique magnets

To identify particles emerging from high-energy interactions between a beam and a fixed target, or between two counter-rotating beams, experimental physicists need to measure the particle tracks with ...

Get on board with EASITrain

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes won his Nobel prize back in 1913 two years after the discovery of superconductivity; Georg Bednorz and Alexander Müller won theirs in 1987, just a year after discovering high-t...

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...