Read article 'ALICE looks to the skies'
ALICE is one of the four big experiments at CERN’s LHC. It is devoted mainly to the study of a new phase of matter, the quark–gluon plasma, which is created in heavy-ion collisions at very ...
Read article 'Cherenkov Telescope Array is set to open new windows'
A new facility to push forward very high-energy gamma-ray astronomy.
Read article 'A neutrino telescope deep in the Mediterranean Sea'
KM3NeT will instrument several cubic kilometres of deep water.
Read article 'The discovery of air-Cherenkov radiation'
How a simple but audacious experiment opened up a new technique.
Read article 'ALICE tracks charm energy loss in the QGP'
The first direct observation of the suppression of charmed mesons at high transverse-momentum in head-on nucleus–nucleus collisions indicates that charm quarks suffer a strong loss of energy in hot...
Read article 'Silicon sensors go 3D'
Producing radiation-hard tracking detectors for the ATLAS upgrade.
Read article 'The DarkSide of Gran Sasso'
Towards new levels of sensitivity in detecting dark-matter particles.
Read article 'Edoardo Amaldi and the origins of ESA'
In 1958, Edoardo Amaldi set out his vision for a European organization for research in space in a letter that has now itself gone into space.
Read article 'CO2 cooling is getting hot in high-energy physics'
The benefits of carbon-dioxide cooling for silicon detectors.
Read article 'Neutrino production moves to an industrial scale'
The promise and challenges of the Neutrino Factory.
