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LHCb: A question of asymmetry

Andrei Golutvin explains how quantum phenomena in B mesons may reveal new physics in LHCb.

LHCb: A beauty of an experiment (archive)

Article from the archive about the born of the LHCb collaboration and the detector to study the beauty quarks.

ALICE: The heavy-ion challenge

When the ideas for ALICE were first formed at the end of 1990, the heavy-ion programme was still in its infancy and very little was known about what physics to expect or what kind of detector would be...

ALICE: New kid on the block (archive)

A compilation of articles about the ALICE experiment, its design and its goals.

CMS: Building on innovation

Jim Virdee talks to Carolyn Lee on how the CMS experiment are preparing for the LHC

CMS: A study in compactness (archive)

A compilation of past articles about the CMS experiment, its design and its goals.

ATLAS: The making of a giant

A multipurpose detector, its physics goals range from the search for the Higgs boson and supersymmetric particles to the exploration of extra dimensions and other alternative scenarios.