Read article 'The greatest lepton collider'
LEP was the highest energy e+e– collider ever built, with levels of precision that remain unsurpassed in accelerator physics. Former CERN director of accelerators Steve Myers tells LEP’s story fro...
Read article 'Tunnelling for physics'
John Osborne, Alexandra Tudora and Ben Swatton survey the geological, environmental and technical constraints of a post-LHC collider.
Read article 'My contemporary and my friend'
André Martin witnessed some of the key moments in Gell-Mann’s scientific life, and became a close friend along the way.
Read article 'Memories from Caltech'
Stephen Wolfram reflects on Gell-Mann’s complex character and his rivalry with Richard Feynman.
Read article 'We’ve been here before…'
Tales of colliders contained in 60 illustrious years of CERN Courier offer a rich perspective on the strategic decisions facing the field today.
Read article 'Strong interactions'
Harald Fritzsch, who collaborated with Gell-Mann in the early 1970s, describes the steps that led to a full understanding of strong interactions.
Read article 'Gell-Mann’s multi-dimensional genius'
Murray Gell-Mann was one of the great geniuses of the 20th century, says Lars Brink, and stands out among other Nobel laureates.
Read article 'A unique vacuum environment'
Paolo Chiggiato describes the unparalleled vacuum developments that underpin CERN’s science.
Read article 'The proton laid bare'
What a proton is depends on how you look at it, or rather on how hard you hit it.
Read article 'The flavour of new physics'
Recent experimental results hint that some electroweak processes are not lepton-flavour independent.
