Read article 'CERN strengthens ties with South Asia'
CERN strengthens ties with South Asia
In 2010, the CERN Council approved a radical shift in membership policy that opened full membership to non-European states.
Read article 'CERN strengthens ties with South Asia'
Read article 'Injecting new life into the LHC'
Injecting new life into the LHC
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most famous and powerful of all CERN’s machines, colliding intense beams of protons at an energy of 13 TeV. But its success relies on a series of smaller mac...
Read article 'ITER’s massive magnets enter production'
ITER’s massive magnets enter production
As Matthew Chalmers reported in 2017, completion of the first toroidal-field coil for ITER demonstrates niobium-tin superconductor technology on a gigantic scale.
Read article 'Powering the field forward'
Powering the field forward
Particle physicists try to understand the environment that existed fractions of a second after the Big Bang by studying the behaviour of particles at high energies. Early studies relied on cosmic rays...
Read article 'Unique magnets'
Unique magnets
To identify particles emerging from high-energy interactions between a beam and a fixed target, or between two counter-rotating beams, experimental physicists need to measure the particle tracks with ...
Read article 'Souped up RF'
Souped up RF
Behind the size, complexity and physics goals of particle accelerators such as the LHC lies a simple physics principle worked out by Maxwell more than 150 years ago: when a charged particle passes th...
Read article 'Get on board with EASITrain'
Get on board with EASITrain
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes won his Nobel prize back in 1913 two years after the discovery of superconductivity; Georg Bednorz and Alexander Müller won theirs in 1987, just a year after discovering high-t...
Read article 'Superconductors and particle physics entwined'
Superconductors and particle physics entwined
Superconductivity is a mischievous phenomenon. Countless superconducting materials were discovered following Onnes’ 1911 breakthrough, but none with the right engineering properties. Even today, mor...
Read article 'Taming high-temperature superconductivity'
Taming high-temperature superconductivity
After 30 years, a theory is within reach for high-T superconductors.
Read article 'Europe enters the extreme X-ray era'
Europe enters the extreme X-ray era
The European X-ray Free-Electron Laser will probe electronic, chemical and biological processes in unprecedented detail.
