Read article 'A close look at the world’s largest astronomical project'
Résumé Pleins feux sur le plus grand projet astronomique du monde Huit ans après leur première visite sur le site d’ALMA, au Chili, Paola Catapano et Mike Struik, du CERN, re...
Read article 'Yoichiro Nambu: breaking the symmetry'
Yoichiro Nambu passed away on 5 July 2015 in Osaka. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 “for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic phys...
Read article 'Is the Standard Model about to crater?'
There are now quite a few discrepancies, or “tensions”, between laboratory experiments and the predictions of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. All of them are of the 2...
Read article 'What’s next for OPERA’s emulsion-detection technology?'
Developed in the late 1990s, the OPERA detector design was based on a hybrid technology, using both real-time detectors and nuclear emulsions. The construction of the detector at the Gran Sasso...
Read article 'The LSC welcomes new experiments'
The Canfranc Underground Laboratory welcomes new ideas and proposals.
Read article 'The most precise picture of the proton'
H1 and ZEUS release their definitive paper on deep-inelastic scattering.
Read article 'Inventing our future accelerator'
Can you imagine that electrons Are planets circling their suns? Space exploration, wars, elections And hundreds of computer tongues Translation by A Seryi of a 1920 poem by Valery Bryusov, “The ...
Read article 'RD51 and the rise of micro-pattern gas detectors'
Résumé RD51 et l’essor des détecteurs gazeux à micropistes En 2008 a été créée au CERN la collaboration RD51, répondant ainsi au besoin de dével...
Read article 'Vienna hosts a high-energy particle waltz'
The first results at a new high-energy frontier in particle physics were a major highlight for the 2015 edition of the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP). The...
Read article 'In the steps of the antiproton'
Claude Amsler looks at some of the studies over the years at CERN.
