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.
Read article 'ATLAS upgrades in LS2'
New wheel-shaped detectors that allow a better trigger and measurement capability for muons are among numerous transformations taking place.
Read article 'LHCb’s momentous metamorphosis'
The LHCb detector is to be totally rebuilt in time for the restart of LHC operations.
Read article 'ALICE revitalised'
The ALICE experiment is being upgraded to make even more precise measurements of extreme nuclear matter
Read article 'Plasma lenses promise smaller accelerators'
An international team has made an advance towards more compact particle accelerators, demonstrating that beams can be focused via a technique called active plasma lensing without reducing the beam qua...
