Read article 'Model physicist'
Model physicist
Steven Weinberg talks to CERN Courier about his seminal 1967 work and discusses where next for particle physics following the discovery of the Higgs boson.
Read article 'Model physicist'
Read article 'From the web to a start-up near you'
From the web to a start-up near you
The core mission of CERN is fundamental research in particle physics. Yet, as a publicly funded laboratory, it also has a remit to ensure that its technology and expertise deliver prompt and tangible ...
Read article 'Neutrinos on nuclei'
Neutrinos on nuclei
A major focus of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is to search for new phenomena that cannot be explained by the Standard Model of particle physics. In addition to sophisticated analysis...
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 '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...
