Detectors Archives – Page 6 of 50

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.

Tuning in to neutrinos

A new generation of accelerator and reactor experiments is opening an era of high-precision neutrino measurements.

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.

Circular colliders eye Higgs self-coupling

Alain Blondel and Panagiotis Charitos report on developments at the third FCC Physics and Experiments Workshop.

New SMOG on the horizon

LHCb will soon become the first LHC experiment able to run simultaneously with two separate interaction regions.

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.

The construction of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter

Crystal calorimeter hones Higgs mass

This is the most precise measurement so far of a parameter with implications for the stability of the vacuum.

The foundations of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope

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.