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...
Read article 'ALICE through a gamma-ray looking glass'
The ALICE experiment is optimized to perform in the environment of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, which can produce thousands of particles. Its design combines an excellent vertex resolution with a ...
Read article 'ALICE looks to the future'
After more than three years of highly successful operation, the ALICE detector is about to undergo a major programme of consolidation and upgrade during the Long Shutdown 1 (LS1) of CERN’s ac...
Read article 'Particle identification in ALICE boosts QGP studies'
Under extreme conditions of temperature and/or density, hadronic matter “melts” into a plasma of free quarks and gluons – the so-called quark–gluon plasma (QGP). To create these condit...
Read article 'Progress in applied superconductivity at KEK'
Fig. 1. The interaction-region quadrupole (IRQ) magnet integrated into the BELLE detector and its solenoid magnet at KEKB, top. The Japanese High-Energy Accelerator Research Organization, or KE...
Read article 'AMS takes off for Kennedy Space Center'
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), an experiment that will search for antimatter and dark matter in space, left Geneva on 26 August on the penultimate leg of its journey to the International Spac...
Read article 'The LHC’s new frontier'
A look at events on the day of the first 7 TeV collisions.
