Read article 'Tracking the rise of pixel detectors'
Silicon pixel detectors for particle tracking have blossomed into a vast array of beautiful creations that have driven numerous discoveries, with no signs of the advances slowing down.
Read article 'State-of-the-art tracking for high luminosities'
The tracking systems of the ATLAS, LHCb and CMS experiments are undergoing complete replacements to prepare for the extreme operating conditions of future LHC runs.
Read article 'ALICE tracks new territory'
The recently installed, upgraded ALICE inner tracking system is the largest pixel detector ever built and the first at the LHC to use monolithic active pixel sensors.
Read article 'Collider neutrinos on the horizon'
SND@LHC and FASERv are set to make the first measurements of collider neutrinos, while opening new searches for physics beyond the Standard Model.
Read article 'Greening gaseous detectors'
More than 200 experts participated in a workshop to study alternatives to the harmful chlorofluorocarbons which play an important role in traditional gas mixtures.
Read article 'In search of WISPs'
Experiments such as MADMAX, IAXO and ALPS II are expanding the search for axions and other weakly interacting ‘slim’ particles that could hail from far above the TeV scale.
Read article 'Final stretch for LHC upgrades'
After two years of intense work, accelerator physicists are cooling the LHC to operational temperatures and eyeing the final stretch of the road to Run 3.
Read article 'A long-lived paradigm shift'
Experimentalists and theorists met from 16 to 19 November for the eighth workshop of the LHC's long-lived particles community.
Read article 'How to find a Higgs boson'
Ivo van Vulpen’s popular book isn’t an airy pamphlet cashing in on the 2012 discovery, but a realistic representation of what it’s like to be a particle physicist.
Read article 'Neutrinos for peace'
Detectors similar to those used to hunt for sterile neutrinos could help guard against the extraction of plutonium-239 for nuclear weapons, writes Patrick Huber.
