Read article 'Belle II super-B factory experiment takes shape at KEK'
Following in the footsteps of Belle at the KEKB facility, a new super-B factory will search for new weak interactions in the flavour sector.
Read article 'IceCube seeks to expand'
The IceCube experiment at the South Pole has been one of the pioneers of the field of neutrino astronomy. During a seven-year-long construction campaign that ended in 2010, the 325 strong IceC...
Read article 'Futures intertwined'
CERN and Fermilab have a rich history of scientific accomplishment. Fermilab, which is currently the only US laboratory fully devoted to particle physics, tends to favour fermions: the top and bottom ...
Read article 'Particle flow in CMS'
In hadron-collider experiments, jets are traditionally reconstructed by clustering photon and hadron energy deposits in the calorimeters. As the information from the inner tracking system is completel...
Read article 'AugerPrime looks to the highest energies'
The world’s largest cosmic-ray experiment, the Pierre Auger Observatory, is embarking on its next phase, named AugerPrime.
Read article 'ALICE selects gas electron multipliers for its new TPC'
The ALICE experiment is devoted to the study of strongly interacting matter, where temperatures are sufficiently high to overcome hadronic confinement, and the effective degrees of freedom are ...
Read article 'ATLAS and CMS upgrade proceeds to the next stage'
Résumé Le programme d’amélioration pour ATLAS et CMS passe à la phase suivante Le projet LHC haute luminosité permettra également d’étendre le programme ...
Read article 'What’s next for OPERA’s emulsion-detection technology?'
Developed in the late 1990s, the OPERA detector design was based on a hybrid technology, using both real-time detectors and nuclear emulsions. The construction of the detector at the Gran Sasso...
Read article 'LHCb improves trigger in Run 2'
LHCb has significantly improved the trigger for the experiment during Run 2 of the LHC. The detector is now calibrated in real time, allowing the best possible event reconstruction in the trigger...
Read article 'RD51 and the rise of micro-pattern gas detectors'
Résumé RD51 et l’essor des détecteurs gazeux à micropistes En 2008 a été créée au CERN la collaboration RD51, répondant ainsi au besoin de dével...
