Read article 'The W boson’s midlife crisis'
The W boson’s midlife crisis
Chris Hays describes recent progress of the Tevatron+LHC W-mass combination working group towards understanding a surprisingly high measurement from CDF.
Read article 'The W boson’s midlife crisis'
Read article 'Gravitational waves: a golden era'
Gravitational waves: a golden era
Azadeh Maleknejad and Fabrizio Rompineve explain why precision measurements of the gravitational-wave spectrum are essential to explore particle physics beyond the reach of colliders.
Read article 'New horizons in SRF: beyond the HL-LHC'
New horizons in SRF: beyond the HL-LHC
Frank Gerigk, leader of CERN’s radio-frequency group, assesses progress on the SRF R&D roadmap and the exacting fabrication and performance requirements already coming into view.
Read article 'Joined-up thinking in vacuum science'
Joined-up thinking in vacuum science
CERN is home to an international effort to develop the next generation of gravitational-wave telescopes.
Read article 'Cryogenics at FAIR: adaptability is key'
Cryogenics at FAIR: adaptability is key
Cryogenics is a core enabling technology in the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), which is under construction in Germany.
Read article 'Event displays in motion'
Event displays in motion
The LHC and the Higgs-boson discovery not only accelerated science, but also took event displays to a new level.
Read article 'CERN’s neutrino odyssey'
CERN’s neutrino odyssey
The backstory and legacy of the Gargamelle collaboration’s epochal discovery of neutral currents 50 years ago.
Read article 'Five sigma revisited'
Five sigma revisited
Louis Lyons traces the origins of the “five sigma” criterion in particle physics, and asks whether it remains a relevant marker for claiming the discovery of new physics.
Read article 'Extreme detector design for a future circular collider'
Extreme detector design for a future circular collider
A pileup of 1000 proton–proton collisions per bunch-crossing is just one of the challenges in extracting physics from a next-generation hadron collider to follow the LHC.
Read article 'RadiaSoft rewrites the rulebook on modelling and optimisation of multi-stage accelerators'
RadiaSoft rewrites the rulebook on modelling and optimisation of multi-stage accelerators
“Robust software solutions that deliver step-function advances in accelerator design, engineering and research productivity.” Writ large, that’s the unifying goal shaping the day-to-day work of ...
