Read article 'What’s next for OPERA’s emulsion-detection technology?'
Developed in the late 1990s, the OPERA detector design was based on a hybrid technology, using both real-time detectors and nuclear emulsions. The construction of the detector at the Gran Sasso...
Read article 'LHCb improves trigger in Run 2'
LHCb has significantly improved the trigger for the experiment during Run 2 of the LHC. The detector is now calibrated in real time, allowing the best possible event reconstruction in the trigger...
Read article 'RD51 and the rise of micro-pattern gas detectors'
Résumé RD51 et l’essor des détecteurs gazeux à micropistes En 2008 a été créée au CERN la collaboration RD51, répondant ainsi au besoin de dével...
Read article 'AIDA-2020 offers support to use facilities for detector development in Europe'
The Advanced European Infrastructures for Detectors and Accelerators (AIDA-2020) – the largest European-funded project for joint detector development – is making financial support availabl...
Read article 'Frontier detectors for the future'
The last week of May saw a gathering of 390 physicists from 27 countries and four continents on the island of Elba.
Read article 'ALICE: from LS1 to readiness for Run 2'
It is nearly two years since the beams in the LHC were switched off and Long Shutdown 1 (LS1) began. Since then, a myriad of scientists and engineers have been repairing and consolidating the ...
Read article 'Detection techniques for future neutrino observatories'
The discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos initially announced by IceCube in 2013 provided an added boost to the planning for new, larger facilities that could study the signal in detail and...
Read article 'OECD report praises innovation at CERN'
In early June, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published their Global Science Forum (GSF) report, “The Impacts of Large Research Infrastructures on Economic Inn...
Read article 'Advanced radiation detectors in industry'
The European Physical Society’s Technology and Innovation Group (EPS-TIG) was set up in 2011 to work at the boundary between basic and applied sciences, with annual workshops organized in col...
Read article 'A new focus on forward muons for the ALICE upgrade programme'
The ALICE experiment, with its state-of-the-art detection systems, produced a wealth of results during Run 1 of the LHC (2009–2013) – driving a new impetus in the field of heavy-ion collisions. W...
