Read article 'Edoardo Amaldi and the birth of Big Science'
In an interview drawing on memories from childhood and throughout his own distinguished career at CERN, Ugo Amaldi offers deeply personal insights into his father Edoardo’s foundational contribution...
Read article 'How to unfold with AI'
Inspired by high-dimensional data and the ideals of open science, high-energy physicists are using artificial intelligence to reimagine the statistical technique of ‘unfolding’.
Read article 'CERN and ESA: a decade of innovation'
Enrico Chesta, Véronique Ferlet-Cavrois and Markus Brugger highlight seven ways CERN and ESA are working together to further fundamental exploration and innovation in space technologies.
Read article 'The other 99%'
Daniel Tapia Takaki describes how ultraperipheral collisions mediated by high-energy photons are shedding light on gluon saturation, gluonic hotspots and nuclear shadowing.
Read article 'Charm and synthesis'
Sheldon Glashow recalls the events surrounding a remarkable decade of model building and discovery between 1964 and 1974.
Read article 'A bestiary of exotic hadrons'
Patrick Koppenburg and Marco Pappagallo survey the 23 exotic hadrons discovered at the LHC so far.
Read article 'Inside pentaquarks and tetraquarks'
Marek Karliner and Jonathan Rosner ask what makes tetraquarks and pentaquarks tick, revealing them to be at times exotic compact states, at times hadronic molecules and at times both – with much sti...
Read article 'Charming clues for existence'
Alexander Lenz argues that the charm quark is an experimental and theoretical enigma that has the potential to shed light on the matter–antimatter asymmetry in the universe.
Read article 'The new particles'
Fifty years ago, the discovery of the J/ψ and its excitations sparked the November Revolution in particle physics, giving fresh experimental impetus to the theoretical ideas that would become the Sta...
Read article 'Voices from a new generation'
Early-career researchers tell the Courier what they think is the key strategic issue for the future of high-energy physics.
