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Participants and spectators at the heavy-ion fireball

To see how much of a heavy ion participates in a collision, ALICE must determine a key parameter – centrality.

The EMC effect still puzzles after 30 years

The unexpected result from 30 years ago is still in the minds of today's physicists.

CMS prepares for the future

There will be no rest at Point 5, site of the CMS detector, during the long shutdown

The LHC’s worldwide computer

Mid-February marked the end of the first three-year run of the LHC. While the machine exceeded all expectations, delivering significantly more data to the experiments than initially foreseen, h...

Plumbing the depths of neutron stars

New techniques developed by the ISOLTRAP collaboration are allowing investigations of a possible birthplace of the heavy elements.

Michel Borghini and the rise of polarized targets

Colleagues and friends recall the work of a pioneer of a key technique in high-energy particle physics.

Accelerating innovation

Last year, the Executive Committee of the European Physical Society (EPS) decided to revive the EPS Technology and Innovation Group (TIG) by launching a workshop to take stock of projected R&am...