Read article '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...
Read article '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...
Read article '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...
Read article '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 ...
Read article '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...
Read article '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...
Read article 'Taming high-temperature superconductivity'
Superconductivity is perhaps the most remarkable manifestation of quantum physics on the macroscopic scale. Discovered in 1911 by Kamerlingh Onnes, it preoccupied the most prominent physicists of the ...
Read article 'Celebrating a super partnership'
The virtuous spiral between high-energy physics and superconductivity is never ending, says Lucio Rossi.
Read article 'Discovering diamonds'
Natural diamonds are old, almost as old as the planet itself. They mostly originated in the Earth’s mantle around 1 to 3.5 billion years ago and typically were brought to the surface during deep and...
Read article 'CMS undergoes tracker transplant'
At the beginning of March, the CMS collaboration successfully replaced the heart of its detector: the pixel tracker. This innermost layer of the CMS detector, a cylindrical device containing 124 milli...
