LHCb’s momentous metamorphosis
The LHCb detector is to be totally rebuilt in time for the restart of LHC operations.
ALICE revitalised
The ALICE experiment is being upgraded to make even more precise measurements of extreme nuclear matter
Plasma lenses promise smaller accelerators
An international team has made an advance towards more compact particle accelerators, demonstrating that beams can be focused via a technique called active plasma lensing without reducing the beam qua...
Cosmic research poles apart
Two independent groups are going to Earth’s extremes to make unprecedented measurements for physics, education and the environment.
Nobel work shines a light on particle physics
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was shared between three researchers for groundbreaking inventions in laser physics. Half the prize went to Arthur Ashkin of Bell Laboratories in the US for his wo...
Satellite premieres in CERN irradiation facility
CHARM, a unique facility at CERN to test electronics in complex radiation environments, has been used to test its first full space system: a micro-satellite called CELESTA, developed by CERN in collab...
Beam tests bring ProtoDUNE to life
The world’s largest liquid-argon neutrino detector has recorded its first particle tracks in tests at CERN.
J-PET’s plastic revolution
A PET detector based on plastic scintillators offers whole-body imaging in addition to precision tests of fundamental symmetries.
Europe calls for advanced detector and imaging ideas
The European Union (EU) has committed €17 million to help bring a total of 170 breakthrough detection and imaging ideas to market. Led by CERN and funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, the A...
Thin silicon sharpens STAR imaging
A new technology has enabled the STAR collaboration at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) to greatly expand its ability to reconstruct short-lived charm hadron d...
