Read article 'ProtoDUNE revealed'
This 11 m-high structure with thick steel walls will soon contain a prototype detector for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), a major international project based in the US for studying...
Read article 'On the trail of the HL-LHC magnets'
Inside the IB3 Tech Building at Fermilab on the outskirts of Chicago, a heavy-duty machine several metres long slowly winds a flat superconducting cable. Watching the bespoke coil winder – called th...
Read article 'Going underground'
The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project at CERN is a major upgrade that will extend the LHC’s discovery potential significantly. Approved in June 2014 and due to enter operation in the mid-2020s, t...
Read article 'Developing medical linacs for challenging regions'
Physicists, oncologists and industry experts are defining the design of a novel linear accelerator that will make radiotherapy more readily available in lower-resourced countries.
Read article 'Testing WIMPs to the limit'
Dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries of our cosmos. More than 80 years after its postulation in modern form by the Swiss–American astronomer Fritz Zwicky, the existence of a new unseen form ...
Read article 'The dawn of a new era'
Gravitational waves open a profound new vista on nature.
Read article 'General relativity at 100'
Testing Einstein’s masterpiece with ever increasing precision.
Read article 'Gravity’s quantum side'
There is little doubt that, in spite of their overwhelming success in describing phenomena over a vast range of distances, general relativity (GR) and the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics are i...
Read article 'The LHC’s extra dimension'
Searches at ATLAS and CMS constrain models of extra dimensions.
Read article 'Catching a gravitational wave'
The technology behind LIGO’s epochal discovery.
