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'
After 30 years, a theory is within reach for high-T superconductors.
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...
Read article 'Looking forward to photon–photon physics'
As its name suggests, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN smashes hadrons into one another – protons, to be precise. The energy from these collisions gets converted into matter, producing new pa...
Read article 'Funding injection for SNOLAB'
The SNOLAB laboratory in Ontario, Canada, has received a grant of $28.6m to help secure its next three years of operations. The facility is one of 17 research facilities to receive support through Can...
