Read article 'ATLAS and CMS upgrade proceeds to the next stage'
Résumé Le programme d’amélioration pour ATLAS et CMS passe à la phase suivante Le projet LHC haute luminosité permettra également d’étendre le programme ...
Read article 'CAST: enlightening the dark'
Our star has been the target of human investigation since the beginning of science. However, a plethora of observations are not yet understood. A good example is the unnaturally hot solar coron...
Read article 'Imaging science: physics laboratories under the spotlight'
“Lighting the way for dark-matter detection and future particle-physics research.” An electric mining drill deep within the Stawell Gold Mine (SUPL). Awarded 1st people’s choice. “...
Read article 'PS beam extraction becomes more efficient'
Résumé L’extraction des faisceaux du PS devient plus efficace Depuis septembre 2015, les faisceaux de protons utilisés pour les expériences de physique avec cible fixe aupr&#...
Read article 'DUNE and its CERN connection'
The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) is a next-generation long-baseline neutrino-oscillation experiment, currently under review by the US Department of Energy (DOE). DUNE has a potentially ...
Read article 'Penetrating and puzzling: photons shed light on heavy-ion collisions'
Résumé Les émissions de photons éclairent les collisions d’ions lourds La lumière émise dans des collisions à haute énergie de noyaux lourds révè...
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...
