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...
Read article 'Cosmic research poles apart'
Two independent groups are going to Earth’s extremes to make unprecedented measurements for physics, education and the environment.
Read article 'Nobel work shines a light on particle physics'
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was shared between three researchers for groundbreaking inventions in laser physics. Half the prize went to Arthur Ashkin of Bell Laboratories in the US for his wo...
