Scientific practice Archives – Page 13 of 18

CERN Council looks forward to imminent start-up of the LHC

At its 147th meeting on 20 June, CERN Council heard news on progress towards start-up of the LHC later this summer.

A vision for the future of CERN

CERN is a de facto global laboratory, with the LHC set to be the centre of particle-physics research for a decade or more, and comprises the largest scientific user community in the world.

Neuroscience explores our internal universe

Neuroscientist Wolf Singer engages the audience at CERN during his colloquium on "The brain, an orchestra without conductor".

Terascale Alliance takes off in Germany

The next big advances in particle physics are expected to happen at the "terascale". The tremendous complexity and size of experiments at the LHC and the proposed International Linear Collider (ILC) c...

IHEP and CERN collaborate well on beam-loss monitors

The LHC beam-loss monitoring (BLM) system is the key to protecting the machine against dangerous beam "losses" of this kind.

PHYSTAT-LHC combines statistics and discovery

With the LHC due to start running next year, the PHYSTAT-LHC workshop on Statistical Issues for LHC Physics provided a timely opportunity to discuss the statistical techniques to be used in the variou...