Read article 'A long-lived paradigm shift'
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 'A long-lived paradigm shift'
Read article 'How to find a Higgs boson'
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'
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.
Read article 'Tuning in to neutrinos'
Tuning in to neutrinos
A new generation of accelerator and reactor experiments is opening an era of high-precision neutrino measurements.
Read article 'Sensing a passage through the unknown'
Sensing a passage through the unknown
A global network of ultra-sensitive optical atomic magnetometers – GNOME – has begun its search for exotic fields beyond the Standard Model.
Read article 'Circular colliders eye Higgs self-coupling'
Circular colliders eye Higgs self-coupling
Alain Blondel and Panagiotis Charitos report on developments at the third FCC Physics and Experiments Workshop.
Read article 'New SMOG on the horizon'
New SMOG on the horizon
LHCb will soon become the first LHC experiment able to run simultaneously with two separate interaction regions.
Read article 'A labour of love'
A labour of love
Ten years on from the LHC's first high-energy collisions, Mark Rayner interviews some of the foremost detector experts on what it took to keep the experiments fighting fit.
Read article 'Crystal calorimeter hones Higgs mass'
Crystal calorimeter hones Higgs mass
This is the most precise measurement so far of a parameter with implications for the stability of the vacuum.
Read article 'Astronomers scale new summit'
Astronomers scale new summit
The world’s largest optical/near-infrared telescope, the Extremely Large Telescope, under construction in Chile, will bring mysteries such as dark energy into focus.
