Read article 'Taking the temperature of collider calorimetry'
Michele Livan and Richard Wigmans have written an up-to-date introduction to both the fundamental physics and the technical parameters.
Read article 'Tricky component? Use 3D printing…'
Embedded radio-frequency (RF) cavities such as those featured in spiral-shaped cooling channels are one example.
Read article 'Cross-fertilisation in detector development'
More than 300 experts convened from 18-22 February for the 15th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation.
Read article 'Deciphering elementary particles'
Former CERN physicist Christian Fabjan takes a whirlwind tour of 60 years of innovation in particle-detection technology at CERN and beyond.
Read article 'Physics Beyond Colliders initiative presents main findings'
Experiments have the potential to explore open questions in QCD and to search for hidden-sectors in which dark matter does not couple directly to Standard Model particles.
Read article 'Fixed target, striking physics'
A strong tradition of innovation and ingenuity shows that, for CERN’s North Area, life really does begin at 40.
Read article 'German–Japanese centre to focus on precision physics'
The Centre for Time, Constants and Fundamental Symmetries will offer access to ultra-sensitive equipment for atomic and nuclear physics, antimatter research, quantum optics and metrology.
Read article 'Large Hadron Collider: the experiments strike back'
During the next two years of long-shutdown two (LS2), the LHC and its injectors will be tuned up for high-luminosity operations.
Read article 'Actinide series shown to end with lawrencium'
Scientists have determined the ionisation potentials from fermium to lawrencium, confirming the filling of the 5f shell in the heavy actinides.
Read article 'CMS has high luminosity in sight'
One of the biggest challenges for the CMS collaboration during LS2 is to prepare its detector for the HL-LHC.
