Read article 'ALICE ups its game for sustainable computing'
Volker Lindenstruth goes behind the scenes of a completely new computing model that allows the ALICE collaboration to merge online and offline data processing into a single software framework.
Read article 'The W boson’s midlife crisis'
Chris Hays describes recent progress of the Tevatron+LHC W-mass combination working group towards understanding a surprisingly high measurement from CDF.
Read article 'Gravitational waves: a golden era'
Azadeh Maleknejad and Fabrizio Rompineve explain why precision measurements of the gravitational-wave spectrum are essential to explore particle physics beyond the reach of colliders.
Read article 'New horizons in SRF: beyond the HL-LHC'
Frank Gerigk, leader of CERN’s radio-frequency group, assesses progress on the SRF R&D roadmap and the exacting fabrication and performance requirements already coming into view.
Read article 'Joined-up thinking in vacuum science'
CERN is home to an international effort to develop the next generation of gravitational-wave telescopes.
Read article 'Cryogenics at FAIR: adaptability is key'
Cryogenics is a core enabling technology in the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), which is under construction in Germany.
Read article 'Event displays in motion'
The LHC and the Higgs-boson discovery not only accelerated science, but also took event displays to a new level.
Read article 'CERN’s neutrino odyssey'
The backstory and legacy of the Gargamelle collaboration’s epochal discovery of neutral currents 50 years ago.
Read article 'Five sigma revisited'
Louis Lyons traces the origins of the “five sigma” criterion in particle physics, and asks whether it remains a relevant marker for claiming the discovery of new physics.
Read article 'Extreme detector design for a future circular collider'
A pileup of 1000 proton–proton collisions per bunch-crossing is just one of the challenges in extracting physics from a next-generation hadron collider to follow the LHC.
