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The difficult work begins

The open symposium of the European Strategy for Particle Physics revealed a vibrant field in flux as it grapples with the next big questions.

Addressing the outstanding questions

At the European Strategy for Particle Physics, talks covered key questions in the field, and the accelerator, detector and computing technologies necessary to tackle them.

Pushing the limits on supersymmetry

Despite the theory’s many appealing features, searches for SUSY at the LHC and elsewhere have so far yielded only exclusion limits.

Boosting searches for fourth-generation quarks

If the new "T" quarks exist, they are expected to decay to a quark and a W, Z or Higgs boson.

Nima Arkani-Hamed of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (photographed at CERN) spoke to CERN Courier in February while attending the CERN Winter School on Supergravity, Strings and Gauge Theory. Credit: CERN-PHOTO-201902-024-4.

In it for the long haul

We have conquered the easiest challenges in fundamental physics, says Nima Arkani-Hamed. The case for building the next major collider is now more compelling than ever.

CMS beam pipe to be mined for monopoles

A 6 m-long section will be cut into pieces and fed into a SQUID in the name of fundamental research.

Events such as this, showing the second highest E T miss monojet event recorded in the 2016 ATLAS data, were used to search for signs of dark energy. Credit: ATLAS

Colliders join the hunt for dark energy

The ATLAS collaboration carried out a first collider search for light scalar particles that could contribute to the accelerating expansion of the universe.