Detectors Archives – Page 5 of 50

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.