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A mechanism for mass

There's a famous photograph of a young Nepalese climber standing on top of Everest in 1953. It's the only picture there is, but Tenzing Norgay was not alone.

The high-energy frontier (archive)

The principal goal of the experimental programme at the LHC is to make the first direct exploration of a completely new region of energies and distances, to the tera-electron-volt scale and beyond.

LHC computing: Milestones (archive)

LHC computing articles from the archive.

LHC computing: Switching on to the Grid (archive)

When CERN's LHC collider begins operation, it will be the most powerful machine of its type in the world, providing research facilities for thousands of researchers from all over the globe.

TOTEM and LHCf: Roman pots for the LHC (archive)

Articles from the archive talking about the Roman pot detectors and the detectors used in the LHCf.

TOTEM goes the distance (archive)

Articles from the archive about TOTEM and LHCf detectors.

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...