Read article 'Frontier detectors for the future'
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 'Frontier detectors for the future'
Read article 'ALICE: from LS1 to readiness for Run 2'
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'
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 'Cosmic neutrinos and more: IceCube’s first three years'
Cosmic neutrinos and more: IceCube’s first three years
Results from the coldest region of the Earth.
Read article 'OECD report praises innovation at CERN'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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'
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...
